Call for Applications: Energy Camp for African Energy Startups

Benefits

• Energy Camp
  • For an entire week, you will engage in an intensive programme that includes interactive training sessions, networking opportunities with other innovators and tailored workshops.
  • Here’s what awaits you at the Energy Camp:
    • Customer-Focused Product Development: Discover how to refine your product to meet customer needs effectively.
    • Exploring Sales Channels: Identify and leverage the best sales channels for your business.
    • Building a Dynamic Team: Learn the best ways to put together and manage a powerful team.
    • Financial Planning Essentials: Get crucial insights into financial planning and management.
    • Pitching to Investors/Partners: Master the art of presenting your startup to investors and potential partners.
    • Funding Applications: Understand what funders look for in applications and proposals to increase your chances of success.
• Fellowship
  • The Energy Camp will culminate in an international Demo Day (online), where you get the chance to pitch your solution to a global audience of investors, organisations, corporatives.
  • But that’s not the end of the journey together! As a Fellow of Startup|Energy, you’ll continue to benefit from their support:
    • Tailored coaching: Thanks to the Energy Camp, they know your startup better. In tailored coaching sessions, they provide you with specific support for the further development of your startup.
    • Global Exposure: Present your startup to an international audience at their online pitch event.
    • Exclusive Expert Webinars: Participate in exclusive webinars with industry experts who can offer invaluable advice.
    • Network Access: Gain continuous access to their extensive international network and the collective entrepreneurial knowledge of their coaches.
    • Media Exposure: Share your progress and milestones through Sun-Connect News, a global news-magazine reaching over 10,000 readers worldwide every week.

Eligibility Criteria

• Business sector
  • Your startup must offer a product or service for decentralized energy market in sub-Saharan Africa, such as:
    • Energy production or distribution
    • Storage systems
    • Energy solutions or services for example for health, education, water, sanitation, consumption, mobility, agriculture
    • Energy-efficient products and services
    • Financing solutions
    • Measuring and control systems
    • Recycling/Repurposing
• Type of product/service
  • Your business idea:
    • is a development of a new product or service with MVP (not just an idea), or
    • a significant improvement of an existing product / service, or
    • you introduce with your startup a known product / service into new markets.
• Location
  • Headquarters registered in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Majority of shares
  • African nationals or Non-Africans living permanently in Africa
• Experience
  • One of the founders already has at least 2 years of business experience
• Status
  • A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is ready, first pilot customers are existing or pilot project realised
• Independence
  • No branch or franchise of an international company
• Age of product/service
  • max. 10 years
• Investment
  • The company did not yet receive > 500k euros from investors.

For more information, visit Startup|Energy.