Watu has raised $7.0M in new funding, though the round type and investors weren't disclosed.
Watu Raises $7.0M
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Mohamed · Sep 11, 2026Africa is not short of ideas. It is rethinking how those ideas are funded, built, and scaled. This week’s African startup news points to an important shift: capital is no longer moving only toward startups building fast-growing digital products.
It is increasingly flowing into companies building the infrastructure that markets themselves need to grow. In Nigeria, Drive45 secured $3 million in debt financing to expand its corporate mobility fleet, while Watu secured an additional $7 million to increase its capacity to finance motorcycles, smartphones and other productive assets. The common thread is clear: debt is becoming an increasingly
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We are a derivatives-focused exchange, built to unlock the next cycle of development in the Brazilian market. Through our partnership with the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), we combine world-class technology with the deep expertise of a team that has built, scaled and operated market infrastructure, brokerages and banks in Brazil. Our asset-light architecture, free of legacy systems, gives us the agility to innovate, superior time-to-market and a simpler, more transparent and more competitive pricing model. We are here to raise the industry's standard, with efficiency, transparency and proximity to the ecosystem. We recruit the best specialists in technology, risk, regulation and post-trade, and give them the autonomy, high bar and ownership mindset to turn individual talent into collective results. Here, partnership is a founding principle: those who take ownership and deliver with consistency grow alongside the company. If you want to work on the infrastructure that will redefine the exchange market in Brazil, your place is at A5X.
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