{"id":212545,"date":"2026-03-03T10:54:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T10:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=212545"},"modified":"2026-03-03T10:54:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T10:54:51","slug":"why-mena-not-africa-led-emerging-market-venture-growth-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=212545","title":{"rendered":"Why MENA, not Africa, led emerging-market venture growth in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2025, Africa&#8217;s funding volume shot up by over 44% across 489 deals, a 10% decrease from 2024. However, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) stood out as one of the only emerging venture markets to grow both funding and deal activity in 2025&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcabal.com\/2026\/01\/12\/mena-venture-funding-deals-in-2025\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2025, Africa&#8217;s funding volume shot up by over 44% across 489 deals, a 10%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lse-mrkt"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212545-why-mena-not-africa-led-emerging-market-venture-growth-in-2025.png",1075,734,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212545-why-mena-not-africa-led-emerging-market-venture-growth-in-2025-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212545-why-mena-not-africa-led-emerging-market-venture-growth-in-2025-300x205.png",300,205,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212545-why-mena-not-africa-led-emerging-market-venture-growth-in-2025-768x524.png",640,437,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212545-why-mena-not-africa-led-emerging-market-venture-growth-in-2025-1024x699.png",640,437,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212545-why-mena-not-africa-led-emerging-market-venture-growth-in-2025.png",1075,734,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212545-why-mena-not-africa-led-emerging-market-venture-growth-in-2025.png",1075,734,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212545-why-mena-not-africa-led-emerging-market-venture-growth-in-2025-1024x699.png",1024,699,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212545-why-mena-not-africa-led-emerging-market-venture-growth-in-2025-825x575.png",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212545-why-mena-not-africa-led-emerging-market-venture-growth-in-2025-590x410.png",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=26\" rel=\"category\">London Market<\/a>","tag_info":"London Market","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212545","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=212545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/212546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}