VilCap Empowering Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Africa Program 2025 for climate innovators.

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Application Deadline: April 30, 2025

Applications are actually open for the 2025 VilCap Empowering Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Africa Program. Empowering Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Africa 2025 is Phase Two of an initiative to strengthen climate innovation throughout Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania. 

Eligibility Requirements

Eligibility necessities embrace:

• Have authorized incorporation and function as a for-profit entity in at the least one of many following nations or have intentions to increase into them: Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, or Tanzania.
• Have a market-based tech resolution that tackles one of many following challenges: Climate Adaptation, Renewable Energy, Blue Economy, or Food Security. 
• Be in compliance with native fiscal and enterprise regulation.
• Have at the least two full-time founders primarily based in Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, or Tanzania.
• Have at the least a minimal viable product (MVP) and raised lower than USD 1M in fairness.
• Have significant buyer or enterprise validation (not restricted to income, it will also be profitable pilot research, variety of customers, and/or strategic partnerships).

Categories

Blue Economy

Fisheries and aquaculture, marine biotechnology, marine conservation, eco-tourism, and marine litter administration.

Climate Adaptation

Early warning programs, threat mapping and evaluation applied sciences, meteorological knowledge applied sciences, carbon seize and storage, inexperienced infrastructure, and water administration applied sciences.

Food Security

Precision agriculture, enhanced irrigation applied sciences, provide chain administration, transportation and logistics, and cold-chain applied sciences.

Renewable Energy

Microgrid applied sciences, clear cooking options, hydro, photo voltaic, geothermal, and wind, vitality administration software program, and vitality fee platforms.

Benefits

Advice

Participate in a digital investor discussion board and mock board conferences with representatives from monetary establishments, firms, skilled entrepreneurs, and traders who might help startups scale their options.

Continued Learning

Access to reside and asynchronous periods tailor-made to a digital studying surroundings to assist their corporations determine early milestones and put together for their subsequent spherical of capital (if related) or important growth.

Financial Analysis

Access to an funding analyst who will coach startups 1:1 on constructing a monetary mannequin, figuring out unit economics, and utilizing monetary metrics to drive each enterprise and investor diligence.

Media Exposure

Exposure to Village Capital’s program web site and different communications collateral.

Mentorship

Ability to fulfill with and obtain mentorship from outstanding traders, potential strategic companions, clients, and different funders.

Networking

Access to a community of mentors and funders.

Program Timeline:

• March 10, 2025: Applications open
• April 30, 2025: Applications shut
• Mid-May, 2025: Cohort announcement (Pre-accelerator)
• September, 2025: Cohort announcement (Investment-readiness program)

Virtual workshops (Pre-accelerator)

• Cohort 1: May 19 – July 11, 2025
• Cohort 2: June 20 – August 15, 2025

Virtual workshops (Investment-readiness program)

• Cohort 1: September 1, 2025 – January 1, 2026
• Cohort 2: February 1, 2026 – June 1, 2026

June, 2026

Program Summit

How to Apply:

Startups ought to apply primarily based on their nation of operation:

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the VilCap Empowering Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Africa Program