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Disrupt Africa Partners with SA SME Fund & Nedbank CIB

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There Are More Fintech Startups in Africa Now Than Ever Before

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Image sourced from Payspace Magazine. /* custom css */ .tdi_4_77c.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_4_77c.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } Africa’s fintech sector is growing and maturing, with more startups active in the space than ever before, platforms increasingly offering a variety of services, and investment and acquisitions taking place to an unprecedented degree. Every two years since June 2017, startup-focused news and research company Disrupt Africa has released the Finnovating for Africa publication, which tracks the extraordinary development of the fintech ecosystem across Africa over the last few years. The 2021 edition of the report, which is for the first time available free to all as part of an open-sourcing initiative in partnership with key partners Flutterwave ...

HealthTech Startups in Africa Reach All-Time High HealthTech Startups in Africa Reach All-Time High
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HealthTech Startups in Africa Reach All-Time High

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Sourced from Getty Images. There are currently 180 actively operating health-tech focussed startups across the African continent, according to the High Tech Health: Exploring the African E-health Startup Ecosystem Report 2020 report, released by Disrupt Africa. According to the report, this number of startups has grown by 56.5 per cent over the last three years and has seen significant investment despite the COVID-19 pandemic as more than half of all funding to have gone into the space in the past five years was transacted in the first half of 2020. So far this year, e-health startups have raised over US$90 million. “Interest in the e-health space in Africa has accelerated in the last 18 months, and with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a sudden spotlight on e-health startups,...