AFRISE Challenge 2025 for African Youth & Student Entrepreneurs – YOA

Deadline: March 14, 2025

Applications are open for the AFRISE Challenge 2025. The AFRISE Challenge gives an OPPORTUNITY for excessive potential African youth and pupil entrepreneurs to stand up of their entrepreneurial journey, and contribute to native and regional financial improvement by changing into job creators.

Concordia University and Hindsight Ventures have partnered for this program, with a central theme specializing in how youth entrepreneurs may also help “African” economies to “Rise”. AFRISE seeks to establish younger innovators and entrepreneurs who’ve an thought to unravel a scalable mass problem in areas associated to:

• Financial Services
• Healthcare
• Agriculture
• Energy / Utility
• Education
• Environment
• Telecommunications
• Arts & Creativity

Program Takeaways

• Accelerator Program: 30 excessive-potential founders can be chosen for a mentorship and management improvement accelerator, that can be delivered by profitable founders, business leaders, area specialists and traders; alongside leaders from Concordia University, Hindsight Ventures and AfriLabs international community.
• International Demo Day: The Accelerator Program will culminate with an International Demo Day, whereby the Top-15 Entrepreneurs current at a Virtual Demo Day to a gaggle of early stage enterprise traders and Entrepreneurship Support Organizations for accessing funding assist (grant + fairness primarily based funding)
• Technology Credits and different Support: Each startup will get in extra of $600,000 in expertise credit from companions corresponding to AWS, Zoho, IBM, Microsoft, Canva, DigitalOcean, FreshWorks and extra.
• Market Exposure Tour to Concordia University, Montreal, QC: 5 Youth Entrepreneurs get chosen for a 1-Week International Market Exposure.

Eligibility

• Applicant needs to be 18 – 35 yr previous African youth.
• They are trying for purposes from Nigeria, Uganda, Morocco, Kenya and Senegal.

Application

While the bootcamp can be delivered in English, the crew will assist in translating sure materials in French to accommodate Francophone candidates.

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For extra data, go to AFRISE Challenge.