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Pan African VC Fund Launch Africa Raises $36.3M

June 15, 2022
Africa’s VC Ecosystem: Lack Of Seed-Stage Funding, Tough Landscape For Female Tech Founders
Investments // March 01, 2022

A lack of seed investments continues to prove a challenge in Africa’s venture capital space, despite increasing signs of improvement in recent years. In 2019 and 2020, only 7% of all capital went into seed companies, a figure which grew a year later to about...

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Pan African VC Fund Launch Africa Raises $36.3M

June 15, 2022
Pan-African venture capital fund Launch Africa Ventures has closed its $36.3 million fund, which it used primarily for investments in B2B and business-to-business-to-consumer startups. According to an announcement on its website Tuesday (June 14), the Mauritius-based company has helped 108 startups in 21 African countries, including Kuda, a neobank based in Nigeria, and Kenyan B2B […]