OceanHub Africa Acceleration Program 2025/2026 – YOA

Deadline: December 27, 2024

Applications are open for the OceanHub Africa Acceleration Program 2025/2026. This initiative goals to assist as much as twenty-4 (24) of Africa’s most promising affect-pushed for-revenue startups devoted to preserving and restoring the well being of the ocean.

The accelerator is dedicated to nurturing environmentally aware and worthwhile ventures. They attempt to foster an economic system that successfully combats international warming, overexploitation, and air pollution of the oceans. Leveraging their intensive community of stakeholders and facilitators, they provide an progressive hybrid program. This program is designed to determine sustainable pathways that guarantee secure earnings (ROIs) and alternatives for scalable progress throughout Africa.

Benefits

Service Package

• Up to $75k value of cloud companies by way of their companion, AWS Activate.
• Over $40k value of mechanical engineering design software program licenses for prototyping and digital testing, courtesy of their companion, 3DExperience Lab.
• Access to Dassault Systèmes, Amazon Web Services, Hubspot assist, and Notion Premium.
• Legal advisory classes with Sidley Austin, Bowmans, and Lex Mundi (multinational legislation companies) based mostly in your focused market, valued at as much as $50k.
• Advisory classes with Mercator Ocean International, Blue Oceans Partners, Ocean14 Capital, WWF-SA, Dept. of Oceanography University of Cape Town, EuroSIMA, and extra!
• Self-development teaching with the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business’ Centre for Coaching.

Mentorship & Support

• Participation in an in-particular person coaching bootcamp.
• Tailored enterprise abilities and private growth 1-1 teaching.
• Sales, Product Development, Communication, and Business Development Support.
• Mentorship from their community of scientific, enterprise, affect, and funding specialists from worldwide firms, foundations, universities, and Intergovernmental Organizations.
• Potential to take part in Katapult Ocean’s acceleration program submit OHA’s acceleration commencement.

Network

• Access to networking occasions and conferences, together with a stand and stage time on the Ocean Innovation Africa annual summit.
• Opportunities to attach with potential shoppers for native and worldwide growth.
• Access to a global community of ocean-affect incubators/accelerators for international scaling.
• Access to key exterior companions.
• The potential to attend Katapult Ocean’s Future Festival in Norway.

Fund-Raising Support

• Potential funding of as much as $15k.
• Support in getting ready and conducting investor pitches, together with coaching classes with companion traders.
• Assistance in structuring offers, together with opinions by transactional and industrial attorneys.
• Access to a various portfolio of affect traders and company enterprise capitalist funds.
• Access to a devoted funding assist with the partnership with Katapult Ocean’s funding group.
• OceanHub Africa is a nominator group in search of to advertise its cohort to The Earthshot Prize.

Eligibility

• Your startup is ocean-minded, having a direct or oblique constructive affect on the oceans (addressing local weather change, air pollution, or overexploitation).
• You are a for-revenue entity working in Africa.
• You provide a scalable service or product both in the marketplace or quickly to be launched.
• Your product/service demonstrates innovation and/or your small business mannequin is disruptive.
• You are in search of investments or exploring new markets.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to OceanHub Africa Acceleration Program.