Viva Technology AfricaTech Awards 2025 – YOA

Deadline: March 2, 2025

Applications are open for the Viva Technology AfricaTech Awards 2025. This yr, VivaTech organizes the fourth version of the AfricaTech Awards. This pan-African initiative acknowledges and helps startups striving to make a optimistic influence in three necessary areas – InexperiencedTech, HealthTech, and E-commerce / FinTech. Startups present very important options to main world challenges and assist foster sustainable growth.

Despite growing curiosity from traders, startups throughout the African continent typically battle to boost the capital essential to scale their enterprise. Through the AfricaTech Awards, VivaTech goals to create new alternatives for rising startups in Africa. The program gives privileged moments for networking and mentoring with the leaders in tech, main traders, policymakers, and establishments, selling the brightest African innovators shaping the long run.

Challenges

• InexperiencedTech Challenge: Solutions aimed toward lowering environmental influence, lowering CO2 emissions, defending the atmosphere and biodiversity or selling the sustainable use of pure assets.
• E-commerce & FinTech Challenge: Solutions that may contribute to financial growth of African international locations within the areas of e-commerce, and finance.
• HeathTech Challenge: Solutions that may broaden entry to healthcare amongst underserved communities, scale back the price of providers, and enhance innovation within the healthcare sector.

Benefits

• Take Part in Vivatech 2025
  • Invitation to the occasion (flight, sales space and passes)
  • Pitch your venture on stage on the AfricaTech Lab
  • Reward for the grand winner: pitch your resolution throughout the grand Award ceremony on VivaTech major stage
• Meet Key Players to Scale Your Business
  • Network with high company companions
  • Pitch your startup to high VC funds
  • Challenge your concepts with high different startups
  • Mentoring from jury members
• Benefit From Maximum Visibility
  • Be showcased in an article on VivaTech web site
  • Be included within the VivaTech communication plan

Eligibility

• Operating in Africa: Startups with headquarters in Africa;
• Having an answer or product addressing the African market;
• Have raised greater than 150K USD;
• Must handle one of many following themes: InexperiencedTech, E-commerce, FinTech or Health Tech.

Selection Criteria

• Innovation: Relevance and innovation stage of the tech resolution in comparison with current alternate options (measurement, downside solved, know-how used, safety of the innovation, and many others.)
• Impact: Innovative product/resolution addressing an necessary world problem with a excessive social, financial, environmental, and gender influence.
• Scalability: Market sizing and scalability potential of the startup, monitor document of scaling (goal addressable market, geographic ambition on the continent, shoppers focused, and many others.)
• Team Profile: Quality and measurement of the crew (experience, entrepreneurship background, tutorial background, variety of workers, and many others.)
• Business Model: Proven capability to monetize the enterprise mannequin and obtain sustainable operations with demonstrated traction and product-market match (maturity of the startup, industrial traction, variety of shoppers, annual world turnover progress, and many others.).

Application

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For extra info, go to Viva Technology AfricaTech Awards.