{"id":203185,"date":"2026-01-07T05:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T05:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=203185"},"modified":"2026-01-07T05:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T05:48:20","slug":"nigeria-is-losing-startup-funding-how-founders-can-still-raise-money-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=203185","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Is Losing Startup Funding \u2013 How Founders Can Still Raise Money in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria is no longer the automatic favourite for startup funding in Africa. While total capital flowing into African startups has started to recover, countries like South Africa, Egypt and Kenya are attracting more deals and bigger cheques than Nigeria. Why Investors Are Pulling Back Global investors are more cautious than they were during the boom \u2026<br \/>\nThe post Nigeria Is Losing Startup Funding \u2013 How Founders Can Still Raise Money in 2026 appeared first on Business Elites Africa&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/businesselitesafrica.com\/nigeria-is-losing-startup-funding-how-founders-can-still-raise-money-in-2026\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria is no longer the automatic favourite for startup funding in Africa. While total capital<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203185-nigeria-is-losing-startup-funding-how-founders-can-still-raise-money-in-2026.webp",1200,680,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203185-nigeria-is-losing-startup-funding-how-founders-can-still-raise-money-in-2026-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203185-nigeria-is-losing-startup-funding-how-founders-can-still-raise-money-in-2026-300x170.webp",300,170,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203185-nigeria-is-losing-startup-funding-how-founders-can-still-raise-money-in-2026-768x435.webp",640,363,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203185-nigeria-is-losing-startup-funding-how-founders-can-still-raise-money-in-2026-1024x580.webp",640,363,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203185-nigeria-is-losing-startup-funding-how-founders-can-still-raise-money-in-2026.webp",1200,680,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203185-nigeria-is-losing-startup-funding-how-founders-can-still-raise-money-in-2026.webp",1200,680,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203185-nigeria-is-losing-startup-funding-how-founders-can-still-raise-money-in-2026-1024x580.webp",1024,580,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203185-nigeria-is-losing-startup-funding-how-founders-can-still-raise-money-in-2026-825x575.webp",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203185-nigeria-is-losing-startup-funding-how-founders-can-still-raise-money-in-2026-590x410.webp",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/203186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}