Deadline: 1 July 2025
Are you an aspiring startup in the manufacturing technology sector looking to grow your business across the continent? Join the timbuktoo ManuTech bootcamp in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Focus Areas
- Manufacturing technologies:
- Startups that are working on manufacturing execution systems, robotics and automation, machine health monitoring, maintenance management systems and industrial internet-of-things.
- Manufacturing:
- Technology enabled and innovative manufacturing in priority sectors i.e. agro-processing, food and beverage, textile and apparel and leather good manufacturing.
Programme Benefits
- Investor and partner networks – Tap into global supply chains, venture capital firms, and procurement pipelines aligned with African manufacturing startups.
- AfCFTA linkages – Cohort members gain automatic access to the broader timbuktoo network, multiplying collaboration and funding opportunities.
- Tailored acceleration resources – From prototyping tools to regulatory advice, ManuTech Hub equips you to reach the market faster while maximizing the impact of your equity‑free funding.
Funding Information
- The accelerator focuses on providing industry specific technical support and up to $25,000 USD in grants.
Eligibility Criteria
- If you run a growth‑stage and/or scale up stage technology-focused venture reimagining production, logistics, or industrial sustainability, the ManuTech Hub is built for you.
- Startups with founders who are citizens of an African country.
- Startups must be locally owned and based in any African country.
- Founders must be aged 18-35.
- Developing hardware, software, or hybrid solutions that advance local manufacturing.
- Ready to leverage mentorship, networks, and equity‑free funding to scale.
- Startups leveraging technology in the manufacturing sector to capitalize on complex development opportunities and solve challenges.
- Startups with a minimum viable product are preferred.
For more information, visit UNDP.
