Africa: The Big Deal
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Most of you won’t be too surprised to find the “Big Four” usual suspects dominate the charts with 80% of the total raised on the continent so far this …
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20 minutes packed with insights from Africa: The Big Deal. Earlier this month, VC4A and ABAN gave us an opportunity to present some of the content you’…
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The amount raised through $1m+ in South Africa has literally exploded: from $81m in 2019, to almost $300m in 2020 (3.7x YoY), and $758m in 2021YTD (2.5…
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Dince early July, there has been on average one $1m+ deal announced every single day. And the acceleration is clear: in 2019, a $1m+ deal was announced…
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Kenya has been consistently punching above its weight when it comes to number of deals and amount raised. In 2019 and 2020, the country was ranking #3 …
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With $2.5bn raised collectively, the Top 50 deals are responsible for 83% of the total amount raised by start-ups in Africa in 2021 so far. Though a lo…
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26 countries in Africa (representing 85% of the continent’s population) have recorded at least one $1m+ VC deal in the past 3 years // 28 countries (to…
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Since the beginning of the year, start-ups in Africa have raised more than $2.9bn through 515+ deals. The past two months (August & September) have see…
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In 2021 so far, female single founders & female-only founding teams have only raised 0.7% of all funding raised by start-ups in Africa ($18m out of alm…
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These 5 investors have been involved in 1 in 3 ‘early-stage’ deals on the continent so far this year. In total, they have already invested in 127 deals…
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La Série A de Wave projette la région à une toute nouvelle échelle, avec 213m$ au total sur l’année en cours, déjà dix fois le montant de 2020... / Wit…
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