Afridigest Month in Review: April recap

Afridigest is your intelligent guide to tech in Africa. The Afridigest Week in Review helps you stay in the know about what happened in Africa Tech last week.

📌 ICYMI, the last Month in Review covered March and is available here. Today’s Month in Review covers the entire month of April. And the next one will cover the month of May. We’ll be back to our regular weekly coverage shortly Thanks for reading 🙏🏽

• Thirty nine debt & equity financing transactions totaling over $95M in disclosed funding and three M&A deals were announced in the month

• Organizations appearing in today’s Week in Review: Marketforce, Chowdeck, Pula, BuuPass, WeBuyCars, Glovo, MTN, MultiChoice, TLCom Capital, Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures (VKAV), Novastar Ventures, Quona Capital, Janngo Capital, & others.

• Executives appearing: Development Perspective UK’s Ebrima Faal, Microsoft Africa Research Institute’s Jacki O’Neill, Conducive Capital’s Clive Butkow, Spatialedge’s Retief Gerber, OmniRetail’s Deepankar Rustagi, Yellow’s Michael Heyink,TLcom Capital’s Maurizio Caio, Founders Factory Africa’s Sam Sturm, ANKA’s Moulaye Tabouré, Partech Africa’s Tidjane Dème, African Renaissance Partners’ Magdi Amin, Bolt Kenya’s Linda Ndung’u, Carry 1st’s Spencer Ma, uLesson’s Sim Shagaya, & others.

And with that said, let’s get into it.

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April 1-30, 2024

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