AFRISE Challenge 2026 for African Youth – YOA

Deadline: March 27, 2026

Applications are open for the AFRISE Challenge 2026. The AFRISE Challenge gives an OPPORTUNITY for excessive potential African youth and scholar entrepreneurs to stand up of their entrepreneurial journey and contribute to native and regional financial improvement by turning into job creators.

Concordia University and Hindsight Ventures have partnered for this program, with a central theme specializing in how youth entrepreneurs might help “African” economies to “Rise”.

They are trying for enterprising youth (as people or groups) who’re fixing for, however not restricted to under:

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

Benefits

• Accelerator Program: 30 excessive-potential founders will likely be chosen for a mentorship and management improvement accelerator, that will likely be delivered by profitable founders, business leaders, area specialists and traders; alongside leaders from Concordia University and Hindsight Ventures 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 bunch of early stage enterprise traders and Entrepreneurship Support Organizations for accessing funding assist (grant + fairness based mostly funding)
• Technology Credits and different Support: Each startup will get in extra of $600,000 in expertise credit from companions akin to AWS, Zoho, IBM, Microsoft, Canva, DigitalOcean, FreshWorks and extra.

Eligibility

• Open to 18 – 35 yr previous African youth.
• They are trying for functions from Nigeria, Uganda, Morocco, Kenya, Rwanda, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire & Senegal. 
• AFRISE seeks to establish younger innovators and entrepreneurs who’ve a scalable concept to resolve a mass problem.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to AFRISE Challenge.