{"id":220772,"date":"2026-01-17T11:03:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T09:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/nigeria-kenyan-startups-raise-sh126bn-in-2025-outpace-egypt-and-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T11:03:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T09:03:21","slug":"nigeria-kenyan-startups-raise-sh126bn-in-2025-outpace-egypt-and-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/nigeria-kenyan-startups-raise-sh126bn-in-2025-outpace-egypt-and-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Kenyan Startups Raise Sh126bn in 2025, Outpace Egypt and Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Kenyan startups raised Sh126 billion ($984 million) in 2025, outpacing major African markets including Egypt, South Africa and Nigeria.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Data compiled by <em>Africa: The Big Deal<\/em>, a US-based newsletter that tracks startup funding across the continent, shows that capital raised in Kenya accounted for nearly a third of total startup funding in Africa last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">&#8220;Funding in the country grew by 52 percent year-on-year. Debt funding amounted to $582 million, representing 60 percent of the total&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601140101.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Kenyan startups raised Sh126 billion ($984 million) in 2025, outpacing major African markets including Egypt, South Africa and Nigeria. Data compiled by Africa: The Big Deal, a US-based newsletter that tracks startup funding across the continent, shows that capital raised in Kenya accounted for nearly a third of total startup funding in Africa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":220773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,4697,415,4524,257,4687,49370,6758,53432,254,8269],"class_list":["post-220772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-kenyan","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-outpace","tag-raise","tag-sh126bn","tag-south-africa-today","tag-startups"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}