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The mobility fintech raised $250M in a Series C that valued it at $2.1B.
The payments company’s new round valued it at $3.2B, up from the $1B it first passed in 2021.
The fintech’s new round valued it at $1.4B, up from the $1B it reached in 2023.
The electric-vehicle platform raised $215M in equity to scale electric mobility and energy infrastructure across Africa.
Flutterwave bought the open-banking company Mono to add account-based payments. Terms were not disclosed.
Assented on 15 October 2025 and in force from 4 November 2025, the Act sets a legal framework to license and regulate virtual asset service providers.
The business banking and payments company closed its Series C at $200M.
The payments infrastructure company raised $55M to build out its end-to-end enterprise payments offering.
The SEC announced presidential assent on 29 March 2025. The Act recognises digital assets as securities.
The London-headquartered remittance company raised $53M in a Series B.
A $250M Series D led by Nubank valued the digital banking group at $1.5B.
The first $110M of its Series C, from Google’s Africa Investment Fund and DPI, took it past a $1B valuation.