Women-led startups remain on the margins of Africa’s funding landscape, with female solo founders and all-women founding teams receiving less than 1 per cent of tracked capital across African markets, according to figures highlighted at the She Code Africa Summit 2026.
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African startups raising between $100,000 and $1 million fell from 179 deals in the second half of 2025 to just 100 in the first half of 2026, a 44% drop in exactly the segment that funds first products. Early-stage founders are being squeezed hardest at the moment AI tooling is changing what a three-person team…
Moove, the Lagos-founded mobility company positioning itself as an operating platform for autonomous transportation, has raised $250 million in a Series C funding round that values the business at $2.1 billion.
