AfricaTech Awards 2025 (Win a trip to Paris for VivaTech) – 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 constructive influence throughout Africa within the InexperiencedTech, E-commerce & FinTech, and HealthTech sectors. This occasion goals to present a distinctive OPPORTUNITY for startups whereas selling the brightest African innovators shaping the longer term.  

Despite rising curiosity from buyers, startups throughout the African continent usually battle to elevate 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 geared toward lowering environmental influence, lowering CO2 emissions, defending the surroundings and biodiversity or selling the sustainable use of pure assets.
2. E-commerce & FinTech Challenge: Solutions that may contribute to financial growth of African international locations within the areas of e-commerce, and finance.
3. Health Tech Challenge: Solutions that may develop entry to healthcare amongst underserved communities, cut back the price of companies, and enhance 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 prospects
• Get customized 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 a resolution 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 contrast to current options (dimension, downside solved, expertise used, safety of the innovation, and many others.)
• Impact: Innovative product/resolution addressing an essential international problem with a excessive social, financial, environmental, and gender influence.
• Scalability: Market sizing and scalability potential of the startup, monitor file of scaling (goal market addressed, geographic ambition on the continent, prospects focused, and many others.)
• Team Profile: Quality and dimension of the workforce (experience, entrepreneurship background, educational background, variety of workers, and many others.)
• Business Model: Proven potential to monetize the enterprise mannequin and obtain sustainable operations with demonstrated traction and product-market match (maturity of the startup, business traction, variety of shoppers, annual international turnover development, and many others.).

Application

Click here to apply.

For extra data, go to VivaTech.