What moved Tanzanian capital.
The reporting that decides whether a business here can raise money — read, summarised and answered by CGK Africa.
Seven in ten young Tanzanian businesses fail inside three years
Reporting from the Tanzania Impact Investment Forum, where investors and policymakers put the failure rate down to the cost of borrowing and the shape of what's on offer — not to a shortage of ideas.
The Citizen · 03 Jun 2026The nine things you're asked for before a term sheet exists
Drawn from CGK's own coaching sessions and the Builders Forum: the list every lender and investor works through, and the four items founders in Dar es Salaam most often skip.
SME Finance · Aggrey Mattary06 JULCuratedAfreximbank moves to double intra-African trade finance to $35 billion
The bank's 2026 Trade Report names SME access to finance as a live constraint on trade under AfCFTA — which is the constraint a Tanzanian exporter actually meets.
Trade & Integration · The EastAfrican06 JULCuratedAfrica's startup funding rebound puts a record first half within reach
By the end of May the continent's startups had raised almost exactly what they raised in the same stretch of 2025 — the recovery is real, and it is arriving through fewer, larger cheques.
Deal Flow · African BusinessThe UK and Switzerland step up efforts to bridge Tanzania's SME financing gap
Two donor governments put weight behind SME finance in Tanzania — and, notably, behind getting businesses ready to receive it rather than only behind the capital itself.
SME Finance · The Guardian (IPP Media)06 JUNCuratedTIIF 2026 puts Tanzania's financing gap at USD 30–40 billion
Three days in Dar es Salaam, 300 investors and SMEs in the room, and a new vehicle — Invest for Impact Tanzania — set up to keep deal flow moving after the forum closes.
SME Finance · TanzaniaInvestHow this desk works. Curated items summarise reporting published elsewhere and always link to the original — the full text stays with the publisher, and the byline stays theirs. CGK is quoted for its reading of the story, not for the story.
What moved Tanzanian capital this week
The reporting that decides whether a Tanzanian business can raise money — read, summarised and answered by the CGK Africa team.
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The nine things you're asked for before a term sheet exists
Drawn from CGK's own coaching sessions and the Builders Forum: the list every lender and investor works through, and the four items founders in Dar es Salaam most often skip.
Afreximbank moves to double intra-African trade finance to $35 billion
The bank's 2026 Trade Report names SME access to finance as a live constraint on trade under AfCFTA — which is the constraint a Tanzanian exporter actually meets.
Africa's startup funding rebound puts a record first half within reach
By the end of May the continent's startups had raised almost exactly what they raised in the same stretch of 2025 — the recovery is real, and it is arriving through fewer, larger cheques.
The UK and Switzerland step up efforts to bridge Tanzania's SME financing gap
Two donor governments put weight behind SME finance in Tanzania — and, notably, behind getting businesses ready to receive it rather than only behind the capital itself.
TIIF 2026 puts Tanzania's financing gap at USD 30–40 billion
Three days in Dar es Salaam, 300 investors and SMEs in the room, and a new vehicle — Invest for Impact Tanzania — set up to keep deal flow moving after the forum closes.
Dar es Salaam hosts the 13th Building African Financial Markets forum
The Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange and the African Securities Exchanges Association convene at the Hyatt Regency on 1–2 July, on innovation, integration and inclusive participation.
Tanzania's capital market roadmap, and the gap it is trying to close
A policy roadmap for 2025–2030 that sizes the country's financing gap in the tens of billions and sets out how domestic capital markets are meant to narrow it.
What succession research says about handing over a family business
Four transition archetypes and eleven factors that separate the handovers that create value from the ones that quietly destroy it.
Africa takes most of the world's working-age growth to 2050
A continent of 1.4 billion people and USD 3.4 trillion of GDP, with the demographic arithmetic pointing one way and integration as the variable that decides what it's worth.
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