Call for Proposals: Accelerate Africa 2024

They accelerate Africa’s bold and visionary founders in the earliest stages of building global businesses that solve Africa’s biggest challenges

They have hands-on operating experience in Africa to help you accelerate your business, plus the scars and stories to prove it. For over a decade, they have taken on various roles advising, coaching, and mentoring startups, including over 25+ who have been admitted to global accelerators.

Fields

• They have identified five critical areas of support to focus on during the program, alongside some of the top experts in these fields.
  • Storytelling
    • Craft a compelling mission, vision and story of impact
  • Talent
    • assemble, motivate, and lead a high performing team
  • Business Development
    • 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 support from 2 of the top operator VCs in Africa, Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Mia von Koschitzky-Kimani who have built, advised, invested in and exited multiple successful businesses in Africa.
  • Second – The program is designed to meet your needs as a founder in Africa, whether it be workshops across the 5 core areas, coaching sessions from the top advisors, or tech, legal, and finance clinics support through the clinics and office hours. Build community with other founders in the weekly Lagos/Nairobi meet ups, and for the last two weeks of the program, they will be together to prepare for the demo day taking place at the end of May, 2024.
  • Finally, unlike most accelerators, they don’t offer funding or take equity upon admittance. There is an opportunity that the fund Future Africa may invest alongside the other incredible investor network, to write you a pre-seed or seed stage check of $250,000 – $500,000 after the program, following the standard investment process including due diligence and an IC vote.

For more information, visit Accelerate Africa.