Africa: The Big Deal

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May 2025

April 2025

🧩 Mapping the Unmappable: Start-up investments vs. GDP (PPP) per capita
Comparing start-up investments with GDP (PPP) per capita in Africa
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Max Cuvellier Giacomelli
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Seeing the wood for the trees: Africa has a good story to tell...
How Africa might have benefitted more from the start-up investment boom than the rest of the world. At least relatively.
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Max Cuvellier Giacomelli
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Out of the woods? Looking at what could well be a 'new normal'...
A fresh look at the data brings a new perspective on the so-called 'funding winter'
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Max Cuvellier Giacomelli
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March Disappoints. Drags Down Q1 Perf.
Start-ups in Africa raise $460m in Q1, despite a promising January.
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Max Cuvellier Giacomelli
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March 2025

A little less Nigeria. A little more West Africa.
West Africa has claimed $5.8b in start-up funding since 2019, 80% of which have gone to Nigeria
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Max Cuvellier Giacomelli
Feb 2025 - Reasons to remain optimistic
$119m in funding were announced by start-ups in Africa last month
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Max Cuvellier Giacomelli
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Cream always rises to the top, they say
Are the largest African countries in terms of economy and population also those attracting the most start-up funding?
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Max Cuvellier Giacomelli
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