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Q1 2026 Africa Tech Funding Review — M, 38 Deals

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Q1 2026 Africa Tech Funding: $535M, 38 Deals, and the Signals Under the Headline

UphivaBETAR
March 29, 2026

BETAR’s Q1 2026 Africa Tech Funding Tracker closes at 38 confirmed Tier A deals, approximately $535M. The February concentration anomaly, Partech’s South Africa sprint, and the first appearance of African security tech as a funded category.

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Persistent 52M Africa climate venture fund first close 2026

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Persistent’s $52M First Close: The Africa Climate VC Fund Backing Founders Nobody Else Will

UphivaBETAR
March 29, 2026

Persistent Energy Capital closed $52M for its Africa Climate Ventures fund — backing early-stage climate founders that larger VCs won’t touch. BETAR examines the thesis and the portfolio logic.

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Africa Series A desert local VC rise 2026

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Africa’s Series A Desert: Local VCs Step In as US Investors Retreat

UphivaBETAR
March 29, 2026

US investors have pulled back from Africa Series A rounds. Local VCs — Partech, TLcom, Ventures Platform — are stepping into the gap. BETAR maps the structural shift in Africa’s startup funding landscape.

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Africa's Series A Drought Is Real. Local VCs Are Filling the Gap. — BETAR.africa

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Africa’s Series A Drought Is Real. Local VCs Are Filling the Gap.

UphivaBETAR
March 22, 2026

Foreign VC retreat from African Series A rounds has created a funding gap — and local capital managers are moving to fill it.

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Persistent's $52M Africa Climate Fund Is Backing the Founders Nobody Else Will — BETAR.africa

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Persistent’s $52M Africa Climate Fund Is Backing the Founders Nobody Else Will

UphivaBETAR
March 22, 2026

Persistent Energy’s Africa Climate Ventures has closed its first tranche at $52M. The fund thesis and portfolio strategy examined.

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Persistent Africa Climate Venture Fund M first close — backing early-stage climate founders

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Persistent’s $52M First Close: The Africa Climate VC Fund Backing Founders Nobody Else Will

UphivaBETAR
March 20, 2026

Persistent has reached a $52M first close for its $70M Africa Climate Venture Fund — backing pre-seed and seed climate founders that growth-stage VCs routinely pass on.

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Persistent Closes $52M First for Africa’s Most Patient Climate Fund

UphivaBETAR
March 20, 2026

Persistent’s $52M first close for its Africa Climate Venture Fund backs pre-seed climate founders that growth-stage VCs routinely pass on — and reshapes who writes the smallest cheques in Africa’s climate ecosystem.

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Japan’s African Bet: How Tokyo Became the Continent’s Fastest-Growing Startup Investor

UphivaBETAR
March 12, 2026

Japan recorded the sharpest increase of any investor geography in African tech in early 2026. Behind that data point is a deliberate strategic pivot — not aid, but venture capital with a distinctive industrial logic.

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Illustration: Ghana VASP crypto licence — 11 firms in sandbox, VC deployment ready

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Ghana’s Crypto Licence Opens the Investment Gate — and VCs Are Ready to Move

UphivaBETAR
March 10, 2026

When Ghana’s Securities and Exchange Commission issued updated sandbox rules on March 9, 2026 — operationalising a VASP Act signed just ten weeks earlier — it completed the last piece…

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Kenya Raised More VC Than Nigeria in Q4 2025. Here Is Why That Should Worry Lagos.

UphivaBETAR
March 9, 2026

This is a data analysis piece. Figures are drawn from Partech’s 2025 Africa Tech VC Report (February 2026), Africa: The Big Deal’s year-in-review, TechCabal Insights, and Briter’s Africa Investment Report…

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Q1 2026 Africa Tech Funding: $535M, 38 Deals, and the Signals Under the Headline

Persistent’s $52M First Close: The Africa Climate VC Fund Backing Founders Nobody Else Will

Africa’s Series A Desert: Local VCs Step In as US Investors Retreat

Africa’s Series A Drought Is Real. Local VCs Are Filling the Gap.

Persistent’s $52M Africa Climate Fund Is Backing the Founders Nobody Else Will

Persistent’s $52M First Close: The Africa Climate VC Fund Backing Founders Nobody Else Will

Persistent Closes $52M First for Africa’s Most Patient Climate Fund

Japan’s African Bet: How Tokyo Became the Continent’s Fastest-Growing Startup Investor

Ghana’s Crypto Licence Opens the Investment Gate — and VCs Are Ready to Move

Kenya Raised More VC Than Nigeria in Q4 2025. Here Is Why That Should Worry Lagos.

Africa PE Exit Crisis 2026: $10B in Private Equity, Nowhere to Go

Q1 2026 Africa Tech Funding: What the Numbers Actually Say

Q1 2026 Africa Tech Funding: What $537 Million Actually Means

Q1 2026 Africa Tech Funding: What $537 Million Actually Means

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Africa PE Exit Crisis 2026: $10B in Private Equity, Nowhere to Go

Q1 2026 Africa Tech Funding: What the Numbers Actually Say

Q1 2026 Africa Tech Funding: What $537 Million Actually Means

Q1 2026 Africa Tech Funding: What $537 Million Actually Means