Africa: The Big Deal

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February 2025

January 2025

✅2024✅ One last look in the rearview mirror...
Let's wrap it up, Shall we?
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Max Cuvellier Giacomelli
🌍2024🌍 Africa in the World
Africa's contribution to global VC remains quite modest...
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🕴️2024🕴️ The Top Investors of the Year
Less investors have invested on the continent in 2024; and on average they have been less active than in previous years
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It's over. Except it's not. 📺📒🧾
Sharing the recording of our 2024 Round-Up, and the underlying 50+ slide deck
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Max Cuvellier Giacomelli
🤦‍♂️2024🤦‍♀️ It's a Man's Man's Man's World.
Female CEO & Female founder representation reached an all-time low last year
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🔋2024🔋 Fintech & Climate Tech, in short.
Fintech attracted nearly half of all the start-up funding in 2024, while Climate Tech claimed 32% of the amount, across multiple sectors
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🐘2024🐘 All hail the big guys!
Two new unicorns made the news while half of the start-up funding went to just ten ventures in 2024
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🔢2024🔢 Kenya claims the top spot, again
One third of the start-up funding in Africa went to East Africa in 2024; 29% went to Kenya alone.
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