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Why venture debt is reshaping African startup financing

Venture debt African startups reached US$1.8bn in 2025 per AVCA. See when debt helps, when it hurts, and how equity and debt now share the market.

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The AI investment landscape in 2026 looks radically different from the chatbot hype of 2023-2024. We’ve moved past the “throw money at anything with GPT in the name” phase into something more nuanced: infrastructure maturation, enterprise adoption at scale, and the emergence of genuinely new categories. Here is where investor attention is concentrated, and why. […]

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Why venture debt is reshaping African startup financing

AI Investment Trends to Watch in 2026: Where Smart Money is Moving