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African startups raised $816M in Q3 2026, and asset finance took $526M of it. 🚗🛵📱☀️
Moove alone raised $250M. Outside Moove, most asset-finance money came in as debt.
Every round of $10M or more 👇
The biggest raisers: Moove $250M, Odyssey $74M, ARC Ride $33M, Mission Mobile $31M, M-KOPA $30M, valU $21M, Spiro $18M.
Outside the startup count, WIOCC raised $300M for fibre and Gotion Power Morocco took a €100M AfDB loan. With five smaller deals, Q3 comes to $1.32B.
Read more: blog.startuplist.africa/arti…
🔎 Africa’s fintech IPO watchlist
MNT-Halan • Airtel Money • OPay • PalmPay • Tyme Group • Flutterwave
Where their publicly reported plans stand, from listing preparations to longer-term ambitions.
Older startups are taking a larger share of funding activity in Africa 📊
Companies aged 6+ accounted for 59% of records in Q2 2026, up from 26% in Q4 2023.
Those aged six to nine recorded roughly three times as many fundings as companies aged two or less.
African startups raised $344M in August. 🌍
Eight disclosed rounds covered mobility, payments, defence, workforce software and agriculture.
Moove’s $250M round made up 72.7% of the total. The other seven shared $94M.
Full breakdown: 👇🏾
StartupList Africa retweeted
If you’re following me, I hope you’re not one of the internet warriors bashing @terraindustries ‼️
There’s real opportunity in what they’re building.
My team at @StartupListAF mapped the space, and the opportunities across the value chain are hard to ignore.
Africa’s five biggest years for recorded drone procurement have all come since 2020.
Now @terraindustries has closed a reported $52M seed round.
Could this mark the rise of African defense tech?
The numbers behind the question. 1/8
What would prove African defense tech is becoming an industry?
Contracted demand. Production capacity. Supplier depth. A technical workforce. Field performance. Sustainment. Cross-border access. Capital continuity.
The proof should appear across several companies. 7/8
We published the full report with the evidence, caveats and sources behind these charts.
Read it here:
blog.startuplist.africa/arti…
Follow StartupList Africa (@StartupListAF) for data and intelligence on African startups and ecosystems. 8/8
Moove (@moove_io) is Africa’s newest unicorn 🦄
The Nigerian mobility fintech has a reported $2.1B valuation, bringing Africa’s total to 10 private startups valued at $1B+.
Nigeria has six of them.
Checkout the Full list of Africa's unicorns below.
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1/5 Leading African fintechs are using stablecoins to settle cross-border business payments.
Customers still pay by bank transfer and receive local currency or mobile money. The token moves value in between.
Here’s how the stack is coming together:
