Techsoma Wrapped: The $3 Billion Money Move — Who Raised, Who Scaled, and Who Won in 2025

2025 was the year the African tech ecosystem stopped talking about “potential” and started delivering on performance. At the Techsoma newsroom, we’ve tracked a historic rebound, with January alone seeing a 240% increase in funding compared to the previous year. By December, the continent officially crossed the $3.1 billion milestone, proving that for the right founders, the taps are wide open.

Here is your Techsoma Wrapped: a deep dive into the funding rounds that defined our headlines and the moves these companies made once the checks cleared.

The Quarter 1 Heavyweights: The Global Expansion Play

We kicked off the year by covering companies that weren’t just raising to survive, but raising to conquer international markets.

• LemFi ($53M Series B & The Pillar Acquisition): In January, we broke the news of LemFi’s $53 million raise to scale global immigrant services.

  • The Power Move: LemFi didn’t wait. By June, they executed a game-changing play by acquiring Pillar, a UK-based credit-as-a-service platform. This move allowed them to offer credit to immigrants who were previously excluded by traditional banks, and by December, they crossed $1 billion in monthly transaction volume.

• LoftyInc Capital ($43M Alpha Fund): We followed Idris Ayodeji Bello as LoftyInc raised $43 million for its Alpha Fund to continue backing market-creating startups.

Quarter 2: Infrastructure & B2B Dominance

By April, the focus shifted to the “overlooked” but highly profitable rails of the economy: logistics and payroll.

• OmniRetail ($20M Series A): We reported on OmniRetail’s $20 million win to digitize informal retail supply chains.

  • The Follow-through: They’ve since scaled their Omnipay platform, which now processes over $810 million in transactions annually and maintains a near-zero default rate on its buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) inventory credit.

• PaidHR ($1.8M Seed): In June, we covered PaidHR’s $1.8 million raise to build a cross-border payroll infrastructure. They are now helping African firms pay talent across 49 different currencies.

Quarter 3: The AI & Logistics Masterclass

July and August proved that “Applied AI” is the new gold mine for African founders.

• Ultromics ($55M Series C): Techsoma was there when Ultromics raised $55 million to use AI for detecting hidden heart failure.

  • The Follow-through: They have since analyzed over 430,000 scans with their EchoGo platform, showing a 73.6% improvement in heart failure detection compared to traditional methods. In December 2025, they secured a strategic investment from the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women Venture Fund to specifically tackle heart-failure detection gaps in women..

• Chowdeck ($9M Series A): We followed the Chowdeck $9 million expansion story as they aimed to take over West Africa.

  • The Follow-through: Chowdeck acquired Mira (a POS startup) to control restaurant backends, launched a “Bills” tab for in-app airtime/data, and hit 1 million monthly orders in October. On Black Friday 2025, they processed ₦1.4 billion ($975k) in sales in just four days.

Quarter 4: The Billion-Dollar Rebound

The year closed with the “Receipt of the Year,” proving that unicorns are alive and well in Africa.

• Moniepoint ($200M Total Series C): In October, we broke the news of Moniepoint closing a $200 million Series C, bringing their valuation well above the $1 billion mark.

  • The Follow-through: They are now a pan-African powerhouse, processing $250 billion in annual transaction value and expanding their “financial happiness” mission into Kenya and the UK. They also launched Moniebook, Nigeria’s first all-in-one POS solution that unifies payments and bookkeeping for SMEs. This tool allows merchants to track sales, manage inventory, and monitor staff from a single dashboard.

• Ageiro ($3M Launch): Just this December, we tracked South Africa’s Ageiro as they raised $3 million for an AI platform that writes software in days rather than months.

Techsoma 2025: The Capital Scorecard

2025 was the year African tech stopped asking for a seat at the table and built its own. Thank you for trusting Techsoma to document every dollar of it.