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This Week: Racism in South African VC?

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Editor’s Note

  • Week 29, 2022
  • Read time: 5 minutes

In the past, we’ve done some reporting on gender imbalance in the startup funding landscape. But this week, we’re sharing some news about racist biases in the African funding space. It’s a situation we’ll be reporting on again soon, so we’d love to read your thoughts about it.

Have a great weekend.

Kelechi Njoku,
Senior Editor, TechCabal.

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Nigerian fintech executives at US-based Ping Express were sentenced to a combined 8 years in US prison for money laundering. They transferred $167 million—including proceeds from fraud—to Nigeria for over 3 years.

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South Africa’s black startup founders are excluded from funding

It appears that the fundraising landscape of the rainbow nation—South Africa—isn’t colour-inclusive. The South African Competition Commission reported that though the country’s population is 8% white, white founders are more likely to raise $58,000 (R1 million) than black founders.

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Nigeria’s Senate passes the Nigeria Startup Bill

Nigeria’s Senate has passed the Nigeria Startup Bill. The bill which aims to remove the hurdles obstructing Nigerian startups will now continue its journey to becoming law. It has 2 more milestones to reach—the House of Representatives and the Presidency.

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The 5 African startups in Y Combinator’s S22 batch

Out of 146 applications from all over the world, 5 African startups have been accepted into Y Combinator’s Summer 2022 batch. They are Pivo Technologies, Chowdeck, Garage Mobility, Patika, and Moneco.

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Experts say CBN can’t enforce new directive

The governor of Nigeria’s central bank, Godwin Emefiele, said that it is illegal to use the Nigerian naira to buy dollars. He threatened to arrest and prosecute anyone caught in the act, but several experts we spoke to agree that Emefiele’s threat has no legal backing.

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Vodacom loses almost 400,000 subscribers in 3 months

South African mobile network operator Vodacom lost almost 400,000 subscribers between April 2022 and June 2022. However, while its subscribers dropped, revenue, contract customer base, data traffic, and more grew.

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MTN in talks to acquire Telkom

MTN and South African mobile network operator Telkom are discussing the possibility of an acquisition. The acquisition will strengthen MTN’s presence in the 38 countries where Telkom operates.

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Africa’s first cybersecurity fusion centre

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Nigerian mobility tech MAX attains 100 million km milestone

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ShopEx TV to launch live-shopping platform

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Construction of Egypt’s first nuclear power plant begins

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Municipal manager charged for unlawful $12 million tender

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AfyaRekod puts Kenyans’ medical records on the blockchain

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Who brought the money this week?

  • Africa-focused integrated tech company Cassava Technologies secured $50 million in investment from C5 Capital.
  • Bloom, a Sudan-based fintech, raised $6.5 million in a seed round.
  • Moroccan startup, Aza Petrolsolutions, raised $296,000 in funding from the Maroc Numeric Fund II.
  • Carthay Afrivest Investment Fund (CAIF) raised $112 million to finance early- to growth-stage startups in Africa.

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  • Co-founder of talent discovery startup Bubu Buna is not gunning to be Steve Jobs.
  • Investor Hannah Subayi believes the gap between anglophone and francophone African startups is reducing.
  • How Microsoft’s Redmond campus inspired this Zambia agritech startup.

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