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We give visibility into how money is flowing into Africa's venture capital ecosystem💰

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We track all startup deals happening in Africa: $9billion+ to date. We help you review your Pitch Deck + bridge your funding requirements when you are raising. Visit https://t.co/9uRFiOiOSw

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University students across Africa

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💰 Alert @farmerline has raised extra $1.5m in Pre-Series A equity round to expand across West Africa.

It helps digitize farmers through partnerships through an AI super platform for supply chain intelligence

Key Funders @Oikocredit @Acumen @FMO @GreaterImpactFoundation

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@SweepSouthSA has raised $11m in an investment round, to further develop and grow in South Africa and roll out new services.

Key Funders @AlitheiaIDF @NaspersFoundry @Futuregrowth @EndeavorCatalyst @CarusoVentures @E4EAfrica

Building Africa | https://t.co/Qxz6Y7FeQc

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@VendeaseAfrica has raised $30m in Series A - $20m equity and $10m debt.

Allows placing of orders for food & supplies

Funders @TLcomCapital @PartechPartners @VentureSouq @HustleFundVC @GFRFund @KubeVC @magicfundvc and @kairosangels

Building Africa | https://t.co/Qxz6Y7FeQc

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@Ngigimwangi254 Hi, you can check on our platform. If you are raising, we would be happy to have a look at your Pitch Deck for review - simply attach it on our platform.

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Who is NEXT?

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NEXT

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NEXT

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We have tracked close to $10billion worth of startup deals over the last 4years.

To help you secure funding visit https://t.co/9uRFiOiOSw

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For African startup ecosystem to raise more funding, we need to increase supply of INVESTOR READY startups. I would love to see more startup raise funding and getting listed on the 'Hall of Fame' of startups who have raised funding across Africa on https://t.co/TUGycqMn1Z

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Weekend is the best time to review your Pitch Deck, without much clutter.

We review Pitch Decks for our '1 Year Pass' members, visit https://t.co/9uRFiOiOSw to get started.

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Happy Africa Day

A simple search for 'if you want to hide something....' attached are the results.

We are happy to introduce Mindset Initiative | https://t.co/Za41IjTvx5 a new way to encourage African entrepreneurs to read more business books to help develop soft skills.

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Hypothetically this is the journey for a Startup from Idea Generation until IPO. All other things equal - source @EquitiesNest

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Are you an African startup fund raising?

This is what African startups have raised on average since 2015

2015 $2m
2016 $3.8m
2017 $4.4m
2018 $7.1m
2019 $11.7m
2020 $7.0m
2021 $5.6m
2022 $11.2m

How much are you targeting to raise? https://t.co/9uRFiOiOSw

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Av Deal Size - African Startups. From the early stages of Africa's ecosystem deal size progressively increased with greater significance in 2019 when outsized deals started to show up in the market. 2020 slowed down amid peak of Covid19. 2022 points to a higher average deal size

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Key funders included @V8Capital @EgyptVentures @CubitVentures @costanoavc @luxcapitalfund @PalmDriveVC @BananaCap_ @streamlinedvc @ActVentures @LoftyIncVC @CDCgov @CathexisPartner @EduventuresInc @ChallengeFund @cairoangels @usv among another's

Compiled by @TETawonezvi

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$38million found it's way into Africa startups, up 104% vs the prior week anchored by @PylonUMP. There was a major shake up within our local ecosystem centered on what was allegedly happening at #flutterwave. We strongly believe this will only make our ecosystem stronger...

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Congratulations for following raises
@Pylon ~ $19m
@umbamobile ~ $15.5m
@BioCertica ~ $1.6m
@sprints ~ $1.2m
@simpuinc ~ $1.0m

And undisclosed funding raised by @ShapShap_NG @rology & @ShiftEV