AfDB Pan-African Fellowship for Emerging Fund Managers 2025 – YOA

Deadline: May 21, 2025

Applications are open for the AfDB Pan-African Fellowship for Emerging Fund Managers 2025. This 8-month fellowship is designed to help rising African fund managers who’re actively investing throughout the continent and in search of to scale their influence. The program straight addresses the core challenges confronted by fund managers, providing a strategic mix of technical coaching, tailor-made skilled help, and networking alternatives to unlock the following stage of their development.

The African Development Bank Fellowship for Emerging Fund Managers, an initiative of the African Development Bank (AfDB) is designed to help 20 African rising fund managers. As the implementing associate chosen by AfDB, I&P will convey its distinctive experience as a General Partner (GP) and Limited Partner (LP) to ship this primary-of-its-sort capability-constructing program, tailor-made to the realities and ambitions of African fund managers.

Benefits

The program gives a dynamic mixture of codecs designed to ship studying alternatives, improve visibility, and supply tailor-made help.

• Master the Fundamentals: Interactive webinars and deep dives into crucial matters similar to fundraising technique, funding execution, influence measurement, and authorized structuring
• Immerse & Connect: A bootcamp held alongside a serious ecosystem occasion, providing visibility and distinctive networking alternatives
• Tailored Expert Insights: One-on-one mentorship with skilled non-public fairness and enterprise capital professionals providing custom-made steerage to deal with your greatest strategic and operational challenges
• Unlock Networking Potential: Continuous entry to a community of restricted companions, traders, and like-minded fund managers throughout the continent

Eligibility

The Fellowship is open to rising PE and VC fund managers who:

• Are actively investing in Africa
• Have both secured preliminary commitments, are at launch or shut of first-time fund
• Have comparatively small, excessive-potential portfolios with clear additionality
• Are specializing in underserved sectors or geographies
• Have lower than USD 50M in property beneath administration

Fund managers with illustration of youth (under 35 years) in senior management positions are inspired to apply!

Application

The program will start in June. Applications are open till May 21, 2025.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to AfDB Pan-African Fellowship for Emerging Fund Managers.