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Spiro raises $215 million for battery swaps September funding: $260.3 million across 54 deals Aeon raises $1 million, led by Terra Industries Paystack lets AI agents pay for airtime and Chowdeck South Africa pulls an AI policy written by AI Meet Dada Iyanuoluwa, the young founder of TermResult Alliance puts $500,000 into Kenyan fintech Cloud9 Moniepoint gives informal traders an AI they can talk to Paymob raises $35 million in Egypt Arc Ride raises $33.3 million in Nairobi Spiro raises $215 million for battery swaps September funding: $260.3 million across 54 deals Aeon raises $1 million, led by Terra Industries Paystack lets AI agents pay for airtime and Chowdeck South Africa pulls an AI policy written by AI Meet Dada Iyanuoluwa, the young founder of TermResult Alliance puts $500,000 into Kenyan fintech Cloud9 Moniepoint gives informal traders an AI they can talk to Paymob raises $35 million in Egypt Arc Ride raises $33.3 million in Nairobi

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Arguments from the desk. The news pages carry the figures. These carry the reading of them.

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Nine Nigerian deals and almost none of the money

September’s funding table is not an obituary for Lagos. It is a description of which rounds are getting written, and which are not.

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If a ministry’s AI policy is written by AI, read the footnotes first

South Africa withdrew a white paper full of invented citations. Kenya is trying to legislate before that embarrassment. Both are ahead of doing nothing.

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OpinionNine Nigerian deals and almost none of the money