The Techsoma Selection: The $3 Billion Money Move — High-Impact Rounds from Our 2025 Headlines

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.

At Techsoma, we don’t believe in the “exhaustive” list; African tech moves too fast for that. Instead, we’re looking back at the stories that dominated our headlines and the specific founders who turned 2025 capital into real-world impact. Here is The Techsoma Selection.

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.