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The Africa Tech Ecosystem in November 2025: Record Exits, Cautionary Tales

As 2025 concludes, the performance of the Africa tech ecosystem is under scrutiny, prompting various projections for 2026. I largely agree with Ido Sum’s comprehensive, data-driven review, “Early. Not Broken,” which analyzes the ecosystem I helped build. His analysis conclusion specifically highlights the landscape of exits, noting: “Nearly half of those exits are South African, …

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Builders and Investors at 12th Angel Fair Africa

Africa’s leading builders and investors will be sharing their remarkable experiences at the 12th Angel Fair Africa (aka AFA@12) themed “Building and Investing in Africa” at the Google NYC office on 19th September 2025. Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, Managing Partner of Accelerate Africa and a two-time unicorn co-founder of Andel and Flutterwave, Barbara Iyayi, co-founder of Liquid Credit …

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Angel Fair Africa in 2025

Since its well-publicized inception in 2013, Angel Fair Africa (AFA) has been hosting a successful yearly event that brings selected entrepreneurs to pitch to a room of curated investors with the intent of doing deals. The event has resulted in about $10M of deals, which attracted other investments and generated 10X the original deals over …

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Building Multi-Generational Multi-National African Tech Corporations

General Electric, Coca Cola, Colgate-Palmolive and other industry leaders have been around for more than a century and remain competitive in their respective markets. Today, we investigate why such entrepreneurial feat is rare in Africa and why less than one percent of businesses founded on the continent outlive their founding generations. First, African entrepreneurs seldom …

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