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Before we start. we wanted to make sure you hadn’t missed our three-part feature on the continent’s most-funded start-ups, which has already attracted 25,000+ unique views on Substack alone. Of course, if you enjoyed it, don’t hesitate to p...
> Welcome back to our three-part series on the Top 100 start-ups that have raised the most funding in Africa since 2019. If you’ve missed the first two episodes, you’ll find them here:
> Last week, we shared a high-level view of the start-ups that had raised the most funding since 2019 in Africa:
> It all started with a mistake, a toggled field in a Pivot Table as I was looking through our database to produce the latest 2025 funding numbers. Instead of filtering to focus on this year’s deals, what I did is I included all the deals (...
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