The develoPPP Ventures Ideas Competition 2025/2026 for Young Entrepreneurs (non-dilutive capital of 100,000 euros) – Opportunities For Africans

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Application Deadline: June 30, 2025

Applications are actually open for the develoPPP Ventures Ideas Competition. develoPPP Ventures is geared toward younger firms, whose modern enterprise mannequin improves residing situations in a creating or rising nation and who’re planning to scale up. Via a matching-funds mannequin, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) supplies non-dilutive capital of 100,000 euros for appropriate development investments.

Requirements

• Available in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa and Tanzania – with additional nations to observe
• Non-dilutive captial of EUR 100,000 for scaling up plus potential top-up funding
• Tailor-made technical help by sector consultants 

A prerequisite for funding is that the start-up part has already been accomplished and preliminary revenues have been generated. In addition, your organization should:

• be privately owned and profit-oriented
• have a viable enterprise and monetary plan
• have the ability to present a minimum of one annual monetary assertion
• persuade different financiers of its enterprise mannequin (matching funds)
• not have acquired greater than a most of €2 million in funding so far
• have excessive development potential and attain break-even inside a most of three years

Selection Criteria

• Each application will first be evaluated on the premise of constant and clear standards. If your application is profitable within the competitors, you can be given the chance to pitch to the decision-making committee of DEG Impulse and GIZ.
• The greatest candidates will then bear an on-site overview (due diligence), which, if profitable, will probably be adopted by a funding contract.

For More Information:

funding-programme/startups” goal=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Visit the Official Webpage of the develoPPP Ventures Ideas Competition