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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:04:44 +0200</pubDate>
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	<title>Cape Town startup eFama wins top prize in Meta AI accelerator</title>
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	<description>Meta concluded its Llama Impact Accelerator 2025, recognising leading startups across Sub-Saharan Africa using artificial intelligence to solve local challenges in healthcare, education, agriculture, and public services.</description>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 10:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	<title>South Africa's AI Diagnostics and hearX Foundation selected for Turn.io’s 2025 Chat for Health &amp; AI Accelerator</title>
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	<description>Two South African organisations have been selected to participate in Turn.io’s 2025 Chat for Health &amp; AI Accelerator. Chosen from 400 international applications, AI Diagnostics and hearX Foundation are part of the 10 organisations that will scale AI‑enabled health services.</description>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	<title>Edmund Wessels, Anatoli Kirigwajjo win 2023 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation</title>
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	<description>South Africa's Edmund Wessels and Uganda's Anatoli Kirigwajjo have jointly won the Royal Academy of Engineering's 2023 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.</description>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2023 10:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	<title>Nigeria launches $618m tech fund for young investors</title>
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	<description>Nigeria launched a $618m fund on Tuesday, 14 March, to support tech and creative sectors for young investors who struggle to raise capital in Africa's largest economy.</description>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2023 10:48:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	<title>Flutterwave's accounts frozen in Kenya over money laundering claims</title>
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	<description>A court in Kenya has frozen more than $40m in accounts belonging to Africa-focused payments giant, Flutterwave under the country's anti-money laundering laws, court documents showed.</description>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2022 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	<title>Constant Ventures launches $100m venture capital fund for tech startups across West Africa</title>
	<link>https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/412/518/228288.html</link>
	<description>Constant Ventures, a part of the Constant Group is raising a $100m venture capital fund to invest across a range of technology startups with a focus on financial inclusion, education and healthcare.</description>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2022 09:04:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	<title>African B2B marketplace Kwely raises nearly $1m in seed funding</title>
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	<description>Senegal-based wholesale e-commerce startup Kwely has raised an additional $700,000 in its Series Seed from WIC Capital, Loftyinc Capital, Haskè Ventures and other notable investors, completing its $1m round.</description>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2022 07:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	<title>ThriveAgric secures $56.4m funding, accelerates expansion plans</title>
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	<description>ThriveAgric, a Nigerian technology-driven agricultural company, has raised $56.4m in debt funding from local commercial banks and institutional investors. The raise also included a co-investment grant of $1.75m from the USAID-funded West Africa Trade and Investment.</description>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2022 10:19:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	<title>Promising fintech solutions take the spotlight at Stitch hackathon</title>
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	<description>With fintech widely regarded as crucial in Africa's development because of its ability to drive financial inclusion, fintech startup Stitch challenged some of the top young talent on the continent to develop meaningful financial solutions for Africa at its hackathon on 19 February.</description>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2022 07:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	<title>Kraft Heinz in joint venture to drive AI-driven plant-based food innovation</title>
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	<description>The Kraft Heinz Company, the owner of Heinz, Capri-Sun and Kool-Aid, has teamed up with food tech startup TheNotCompany in a joint venture designed to reimagine sustainable food production globally and set a new standard for plant-based innovation.</description>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2022 12:33:00 +0200</pubDate>
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