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Venture Capital Activity in Africa


2023 Venture Capital in Africa Report - AVCA

Key findings: · Market Size: Africa attracted a combined US$4.5bn in venture capital and venture debt investment in 2023, across 603 deals. · Regional Focus: West ...

Q1 2024 Venture Capital Activity in Africa - AVCA

This series offers a collection of exclusive insights spotlighting the development and global comparison of venture capital in Africa; exploring the regions and ...

2023 Africa Tech Venture Capital - Partech

In total nearly 3,000 investors have been active on the continent over this 10 year period, committing to these entrepreneurs and their vision. We have ...

How Africa Can Embrace Venture Capital - INSEAD Knowledge

The 2024 Africa Venture Capital Association (AVCA) report showed that the continent attracted US$4.5 billion of VC investment in 2023, with a 23 ...

Africa's Venture Capital landscape faces challenges - Africanews

Recent years have been a rollercoaster for Africa's venture capital scene. Investments in African startups surged from $1.3 billion to $4 ...

FY 2023 Africa Venture Investment Report - MAGNiTT

Africa's venture capital landscape navigated multiple challenges in 2023. Overall funding declined by 42% compared to 2022, in line with a global downturn.

Focus On: Africa's Venture Capital landscape - YouTube

This episode of Focus On explores South Africa's Venture Capital (VC) sector. According to the Southern Africa Venture Capital and Private ...

African Venture Capital Drops 65% in H1 2024 as Investors Pull Back

African venture capital took a serious hit in the first half of 2024, marking a significant downturn after being relatively shielded in the ...

African Tech: a land of opportunity for venture capitalists - BPI France

In 10 years, $20 billion have been invested on the continent, 68% of it in the last 3 years. While 2023 saw a general slowdown in startup ...

A shift towards green investment is under way in Africa

A shift towards green investment is under way in Africa. Green deals represent almost half of all venture-capital activity in the continent.

Why We're Optimistic About the Future of VC in Africa | Endeavor

The first year more than $1 billion in VC money was invested on the continent was 2019. We remain confident that the venture capital model can ...

2023 Venture Capital Activity in Africa by #AVCAResearch - LinkedIn

We are pleased to share the latest report as part of our ongoing quarterly series on Venture Capital Activity in Africa; providing an ...

Number of African VC Deals Decrease in 2023, Finds Report

For the first time in almost a decade of consistently strong growth, the number of venture capital deals in Africa decreased by 31% YoY, ...

Africa-focused funds find their feet amid a downturn - TechCrunch

Among the notable VC funds that came up last year include the $300 million Partech Africa II, the largest Africa-focused fund to date, and ...

Getting the value out of venture capital - Brookings Institution

Development finance institutions (DFIs) are the largest investors in African venture capital via funds of funds. Germany's DEG, The UK's CDC ...

How African tech startups can secure venture capital investment (+ ...

Venture capital investment plays a vital role in the African startup ecosystem by providing financial and expert support at various development stages. These ...

Review of private capital activity in Africa in 2023: Investor ...

Venture capital investments were hardest hit in 2023, with a 28% decrease in the number of transactions compared to the previous year.

Venture Capital in Africa Report 2023

Notably, the number of jobs created by VC-backed African startups saw increases of close to 100% in 2022, employing over 34,000 people across ...

Q2 2024 – AVCA Private Capital in Africa & Venture ... - LinkedIn

This series offers exclusive insights spotlighting the development and global comparison of venture capital in Africa; exploring the regions and ...

2022 Africa Tech Venture Capital Report | Partech

The African Tech sector was one of the very few, if not the only, VC markets to boast net growth funding in 2022. Globally, VC funding fell by 35% over the same ...


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The Volvo Group is a Swedish multinational manufacturing corporation headquartered in Gothenburg. While its core activity is the production, distribution and sale of trucks, buses and construction equipment, Volvo also supplies marine and industrial drive systems and financial services.

ASL Aviation Holdings

Cargo airline

ASL Aviation Holdings DAC, formerly the ASL Aviation Group, is an aviation services holding company focused on cargo and passenger airline operations, aircraft leasing and maintenance and aircraft parts support, based in Dublin, Ireland.

Grameenphone

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Grameenphone, widely abbreviated as GP, is a telecommunications service provider in Bangladesh. As of December 2023, its subscribers span over 82.20 million. It is a joint venture between Telenor and Grameen Telecom.

FMO

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FMO is a Dutch development bank structured as a bilateral private-sector international financial institution based in the Hague, the Netherlands.

The Jungle Book

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The Jungle Book is an 1894 collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves.