Apply for Accelerate Africa Program (Cohort 4)

Focus Areas

• Storytelling
  • craft a compelling mission, vision and story of impact
• People & Ops
  • assemble, motivate, and lead a high performing team
• Go to Market
  • find your path to the first million dollars in revenue
• Product Development
  • build a product that your customers can’t live without
• Fundraising
  • fundraise from the world’s best investors on demo day

Benefits

• It could be easy to mistake Accelerate Africa for your typical one-size fits all accelerator program, but nothing could be more different.
• First – they will accept 10 founders who will receive 1:1 support from advisors who have built, advised, invested in and exited multiple successful businesses in Africa.
• Second – Their program is designed to meet your needs as a founder in Africa, whether it be workshops across their 5 core areas, coaching sessions from their top advisors, or tech, legal, and finance office hours. You build community with other founders facing similar challenges, leveraging each other as a network of support as you build your business
• Finally, unlike most accelerators, they do not offer funding or take equity upon admittance. Their Accelerate Africa fund offers an optional investment to all founders at the end of the program. Further, their fund Future Africa may invest a pre-seed or seed stage check of $250,000 – $500,000 after the program, following their standard investment process including due diligence and an IC vote.

Eligibility Criteria

• The founders they back have some consistent features:
  • Passionate about solving a real problem and have the track record or traction to prove it
  • Deep understanding of their customers and consider it their life’s work to serve them
  • Lived experience of the problem, driving them to build a business that seems impossible until it’s done

For more information, visit Accelerate Africa.