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AfDB Mission 300: Two Years, $20B Committed — Three Million Connections Confirmed
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Q1 2026 Africa Tech Funding: What $537 Million Actually Means
Africa’s tech sector raised $537 million in Q1 2026 — but development finance accounts for most of it. BETAR’s proprietary tracker breaks down equity vs debt, the Series A drought, and which countries are winning the investor race.
AfDB Mission 300: Two Years In, $20B Committed — What Has Actually Been Connected?
The African Development Bank’s Mission 300 has committed $20 billion across 26 country compacts. Two years in, fewer than 4 million new connections are directly attributable to Mission 300 financing. Here is why the gap exists and what it would take to close it.