Female Founders Growth Programme 2026 – YOA

Deadline: June 11, 2026

Applications are open for the Female Founders Growth Programme 2026. The Female Founders Growth Programme is a structured funding readiness programme offering a pathway to actual capital for formidable Nigerian girls-led companies.

Powered by FSDH Merchant Bank, Africa Guarantee Fund, and WEAV Capital, the programme equips contributors with the instruments, strategic steering, and investor readiness help wanted to strengthen their companies and place for funding alternatives.

Qualifying contributors might entry as much as $2 million in mixed debt and fairness financing, together with as much as $750,000 in fairness funding from WEAV Capital and between $200,000 and $1,000,000 in debt financing from FSDH Merchant Bank. Participants will even achieve publicity to a curated community of early-stage buyers and strategic ecosystem companions. At the top of the programme, chosen companies will pitch to buyers and monetary establishments in the course of the flagship Demo Day.

Benefits

Participants will profit from: 

• Practical funding readiness coaching  
• Exposure to buyers and monetary establishments  
• Guidance from business specialists  
• Improved monetary and operational construction  
• Stronger investor and lender positioning  
• Potential entry to debt financing of as much as $1,000,000 from FSDH Merchant Bank 
• OPPORTUNITY to safe fairness funding of as much as $750,000 from WEAV Capital

Eligibility

• Have an present and viable enterprise with income
• Be 2 years previous or extra
• Either be (a) 50% or extra owned by a feminine founder, OR (b) have a feminine within the C-suite (CEO or, COO, or CTO) 
• Demonstrate development potential  
• Be looking for debt or fairness capital
• Be prepared to decide to the total length of the programme, together with bodily classes  
• Operate as a know-how firm or know-how-enabled enterprise 

Application

If you might be constructing a feminine-led tech or tech-enabled enterprise and getting ready for the following part of development, this programme is for you. Take the following step towards changing into funding-prepared and positioning what you are promoting for significant capital alternatives.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Female Founders Growth Programme.