The Concordia University/Hindsight Ventures AFRISE Challenge 2026 for young African Entrepreneurs. – Opportunities For Africans

Application Deadline: third April 2026

Applications at the moment are open for the 2026 AFRISE Challenge. The AFRISE Challenge gives a chance for excessive potential African youth and scholar entrepreneurs to stand up of their entrepreneurial journey, and contribute to native and regional financial growth by turning into job creators.

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

Requirements

• The program is geared toward 18 – 35 yr previous African youth. We are wanting for functions from Nigeria, Uganda, Morocco, Kenya, Rwanda, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire & Senegal. 
• AFRISE seeks to establish young innovators and entrepreneurs who’ve a scalable thought to resolve a mass problem.

Program Details

Accelerator Program

30 high-potential founders might be chosen for a mentorship and management growth accelerator, that might be delivered by profitable founders, business leaders, area consultants and buyers; 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 gaggle of early stage enterprise buyers 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 reminiscent of AWS, Zoho, IBM, Microsoft, Canva, DigitalOcean, FreshWorks and extra.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the AFRISE Challenge