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Spiro raises $215 million for battery swapsSeptember funding: $260.3 million across 54 dealsAeon raises $1 million, led by Terra IndustriesPaystack lets AI agents pay for airtime and ChowdeckSouth Africa pulls an AI policy written by AIMeet Dada Iyanuoluwa, the young founder of TermResultAlliance puts $500,000 into Kenyan fintech Cloud9Moniepoint gives informal traders an AI they can talk toPaymob raises $35 million in EgyptArc Ride raises $33.3 million in NairobiSpiro raises $215 million for battery swapsSeptember funding: $260.3 million across 54 dealsAeon raises $1 million, led by Terra IndustriesPaystack lets AI agents pay for airtime and ChowdeckSouth Africa pulls an AI policy written by AIMeet Dada Iyanuoluwa, the young founder of TermResultAlliance puts $500,000 into Kenyan fintech Cloud9Moniepoint gives informal traders an AI they can talk toPaymob raises $35 million in EgyptArc Ride raises $33.3 million in Nairobi
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Payments, business banking, and the agents starting to move money.

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Paystack is letting AI agents pay for airtime, transfers, and Chowdeck

Index, built with TSG Labs, is an early-access checkout inside ChatGPT, Claude, and OpenClaw. It is live first for Zap users in Nigeria.

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Alliance puts $500,000 into Kenyan fintech Cloud9

The New York crypto accelerator’s cheque takes Cloud9’s pre-seed to $1 million. The company wants cards, more payment corridors, and a larger share of cross-border trade.

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Bujeti opens its AI finance “teammates” to every business on the platform

The Y Combinator company, used by more than 2,000 finance people in Nigeria and Kenya, has taken Brain out of private beta.

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Moniepoint marks ten years by giving informal traders an AI they can talk to

The chatbot, called M, sits inside the same app traders already use for payments. The company says it processes more than a billion transactions a month.

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Egypt’s Paymob raises $35 million as North Africa takes the month’s biggest cheques

The pre-Series C was part of a September in which Egyptian startups raised $74.6 million, more than any other country on the continent.

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Safaricom is spending $500 million to make M-Pesa a software company

The plan runs to 2030: AI in fraud and customer service, a Nairobi data campus, and a super-app where other startups can live.

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