Tag Archives: Startups

Seedstars and Shell Foundation have joined forces to look for sustainable, scalable and innovative working towards access to energy, sustainable agriculture* and mobility. The objective of this program is tosupport, catalyse and train early-stage (seed) tech startups addressing challenges related to access to energy (household energy, energy for business, energy nexus), sustainable agriculture …

WEMA Hackaholics techfair Applications are invited from startups and businesses with exiting solutions in Eductech, Agritech, Healthtech, Fintech and gaming for WEMA Bank Hackaholics 2.0. With the launch of ALAT, Nigeria’s first digital bank in 2017, they showed the world that it was possible to hack and redefine experiential banking. …

​ The Aga Khan University (Graduate School of Media and Communications) Media Innovation Center  Call for Applications​ for Innovators-in-Residence Program 2020 The AKU GSMC Media Innovation Centre, together with its partners DW Akademie, Media Challenge Initiative and Tanzania’s Media Foundation are looking for the brightest media minds from Kenya, Uganda and …

The Swiss Africa Business Innovation Initiative (SABII) aims to boost the entrepreneurial know-how and exposure of African graduate students – entrepreneurs seeking growth opportunities by offering a unique program bringing entrepreneurs to innovation hotspot in Morocco and Switzerland.Offered free of charge to ambitious young entrepreneurs with academic background, this highly …

The Call for Innovations is now open. The Innovating Justice Challenge invites all startups that are transforming the justice sector to become part of their 2020 accelerator cohort. Since 2011, they have successfully funded, trained and scaled over 110 startups globally. They are the only accelerator world-wide dedicated to justice and …

Application are open for the Africa AI Accelerator Program. The accelerator has been designed by Ghana Tech Lab (GTL) to promote local innovations in the field of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data usage. The first cohort will support 10 AI startups from Ghana, South Africa, Rwanda, and Uganda. The program partners are GIZ’s …

Are you a startup entrepreneur eager to learn how to better pitch your business and become more investable? Is your startup using technology to make a societal impact in Southern Africa? Are you based in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, or Zambia? Apply for BOOST UP Set Up 2020. BOOST …

Forbes8 is excited to announce Nigeria’s First Resilience Digital Startup Accelerator program for small businesses, Startups and freelancers. The free virtual accelerator will welcome 100 top companies from Nigeria. Founders selected for the program will undergo 4 intensive weeks of digital training to help build and scale their companies for …