Weekly DigestApril 29, 20260

Teen Thiel Fellow Raises $7.3M to Build Swoop, African “Super App” Starting with Food Delivery

A 19-year-old Thiel Fellow has raised $7.3 million in seed funding to expand Swoop, an African “super app” strategy that begins with food delivery in Lagos, Nigeria. Aubrey Niederhoffer, who dropped out of the University of California, Berkeley, has relocated to Lagos where his startup Swoop has lau

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Teen Thiel Fellow Raises $7.3M to Build Swoop, African “Super App” Starting with Food Delivery

Source: TechMoran  ·  Kenya

A 19-year-old Thiel Fellow has raised $7.3 million in seed funding to expand Swoop, an African “super app” strategy that begins with food delivery in Lagos, Nigeria. Aubrey Niederhoffer, who dropped out of the University of California, Berkeley, has relocated to Lagos where his startup Swoop has lau…

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Part of the Africa Dev Week of April 29, 2026 weekly digest.