AfricaTech Awards 2025 by Viva Technology – YOA

Deadline: March 2, 2025

For the fourth consecutive 12 months, Viva Technology is proud to host the AfricaTech Awards. This pan-African initiative acknowledges and helps startups striving to make a optimistic affect throughout Africa within the InexperiencedTech, E-commerce & FinTech, and HealthTech sectors. This occasion goals to supply a novel OPPORTUNITY for startups whereas selling the brightest African innovators shaping the longer term.  

Despite rising curiosity from buyers, startups throughout the African continent usually wrestle 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 offers privileged moments for networking and mentoring with the leaders in tech, main buyers, policymakers, and establishments, selling the brightest African innovators shaping the longer term.

Challenges

1. InexperiencedTech Challenge: Solutions aimed toward decreasing environmental affect, decreasing CO2 emissions, defending the setting and biodiversity or selling the sustainable use of pure assets.
2. E-commerce & FinTech Challenge: Solutions that may contribute to financial improvement of African international locations within the areas of e-commerce, and finance.
3. Health Tech Challenge: Solutions that may increase entry to healthcare amongst underserved communities, scale back the price of companies, and increase innovation within the healthcare sector.

Benefits

• Get full entry passes to VivaTech 2025 and particular networking occasions (flight and passes plus take part within the official AfricaTech Awards ceremony)
• Win a sales space for VivaTech 2025!
• Pitch your startup to high buyers and potential clients
• Get personalised teaching to enhance your pitch
• Gain unparallel visibility – be showcased in an article on VivaTech web site

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 answer in comparison with present options (measurement, drawback solved, expertise used, safety of the innovation, and so forth.)
• Impact: Innovative product/answer addressing an necessary international problem with a excessive social, financial, environmental, and gender affect.
• Scalability: Market sizing and scalability potential of the startup, observe report of scaling (goal market addressed, geographic ambition on the continent, clients focused, and so forth.)
• Team Profile: Quality and measurement of the group (experience, entrepreneurship background, educational background, variety of workers, and so forth.)
• Business Model: Proven potential to monetize the enterprise mannequin and obtain sustainable operations with demonstrated traction and product-market match (maturity of the startup, industrial traction, variety of purchasers, annual international turnover development, and so forth.).

Application

Click here to apply.

For extra data, go to VivaTech.