Accelerate Africa Program 2025 [Cohort 3] – YOA

Deadline: January 7, 2025

Applications for the Accelerate Africa Program 2025 at the moment are open. Accelerate Africa is a pre-seed/seed stage accelerator program that accelerates daring and visionary founders turning our collective challenges into international companies, offering the shopper intros, assets, advisors, and networks to get you on a path to $1m in income inside 18 months of completion.

They run a number of cohorts per 12 months for as much as 10 startups over 11 weeks, choosing startups from throughout the African continent to get assist in areas resembling storytelling, crew improvement, go-to-market, product improvement, and fundraising.

They consider founders who can flip Africa’s greatest challenges into international companies are available quite a lot of backgrounds, talents, languages, genders, ages, ethnicities, and extra. This is why 40% of founders they’ve labored with are ladies, vary in age from their 20’s to their 60’s, and are available from and work in over 10 African nations.

Benefits

• First – they may settle for 10 founders who will obtain assist from 2 of the highest founders and traders in Africa who’ve constructed, suggested, invested in and exited a number of profitable companies in Africa.
• Second – Their program is designed to fulfill your wants as a founder in Africa, whether or not or not it’s workshops throughout their 5 core areas, teaching periods from their high advisors, or tech, authorized, and finance clinics assist via their clinics and workplace hours. Build neighborhood with different founders in hearth chats, take part particular person for welcome week and once more for the ultimate week the place they put together you forward of the demo day

Eligibility

• Open to startups from throughout the African continent.
• Passionate about fixing an actual drawback and have the monitor report or traction to show it.
• Deep understanding of their clients and think about it their life’s work to serve them.
• Lived expertise of the issue, driving them to construct a enterprise that appears unattainable till it’s achieved.

Application

For extra data, go to Accelerate Africa.