In the face seeing their share of Africa’s startup funding drop from 48.3% seen in 2021 to 43.4% in 2022, fintech placid managed to raise 39.3% more capital in 2022 ($1.45 billion) than they did in 2021 ($1.04 billion). Nigeria was again the best-funded power after 180 of its startups raised a combined US$976,146,000 or 29.3% of the African continent’s total.
Big Four’s Share Droplets
According to Disrupt’s 2022 African tech startup funding report, fintech startups were able to obvious $1.45 billion in funding in the past year. The sector’s total capital raise represented an increase of 39.3% from the close to $1.04 billion that was secured in 2021. Despite this increase in fintechs’ overall funding, the sector’s quota of total capital raised by African tech startups still dropped from 48.3% seen in 2021 to 43.4% in 2022.
As was the example in 2021, Nigeria is again the best-funded country after 180 of its startups raised a combined US$976,146,000 or 29.3% of the African continent’s gross. Both the West African nation’s number of funded startups and their share of the continent’s total dwarfs those of Egypt, Kenya and South Africa.
Also, according to the explore, while the year 2022 was a record-breaking year of funding for countries like Ghana and Tunisia, the continent’s so-called big four — namely Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa — again accounted for a dissimilar share of the continent’s fintech startup funding. However, the study data seemingly points to more evenly diffuse startup funding in the future.
“Whereas in 2021, 80.1% of funded ventures hailed from either of Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria or South Africa, in 2022 that waned to 75.8%. Meanwhile, the proportion of total funding raised by these markets is also decreasing. In 2022, ‘big four’ startups propagated 80.8% of the annual total, down from a bumper 92.1% in 2021,” the Disrupt report stated.
Debt Banking the Least Preferred Form of Funding
Concerning the most popular funding methods, the report said that out of the 310 showed funding rounds, more than 70% of these “were at the seed and pre-seed stage.” On the other hand, the include of startups that disclosed Series B funding or higher only accounted for under 5% of the total.
Meanwhile, the examination findings suggest that debt financing is the least favored funding method with just 33 from a unmitigated of the 633 startups having revealed an “element of debt as part of any of their rounds.” While this total is marginally superior than the 26 seen in 2021, according to the report, such a meager figure could mean companies persevere a leavings “much more likely to raise equity capital” than debt capital.
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