Are you an aspiring youth entrepreneur? Apply for the CCW Tech Africa Internship program before 31 August 2022
Are you an aspiring youth entrepreneur? Apply for the CCW Tech Africa Internship program before 31 August 2022
CCW Tech Africa, an initiative of CCW Technologies, invites applicants to the CCW Tech Africa Internship program for young Africans. Through the program, successful applicants will have the chance to build skills in tech and entrepreneurship while also working on those soft skills that are key to running a business. Benefits include the following:
- Hands-on practical classes, working on real-life projects with real companies
- Mentorship from the program’s alumni
- Soft skills development
- Instructor-led training from experts in the industry
- Access to internships offered on the basis of performance and commitment to the program
Interested applicants must fulfill the following to apply:
- Be a youth citizen of an African country
- Be between 18-35 years of age
- Be able to understand and communicate in English
- Commitment to fully complete the 6 weeks of the program
To apply for the program, visit: CCW Tech Africa Applications
Are you a woman entrepreneur operating in the digital space and interested in growing your business? Apply for the eTrade Women Initiative Masterclass before 10 September 2022
Are you a woman entrepreneur operating in the digital space and interested in growing your business? Apply for the eTrade Women Initiative Masterclass before 10 September 2022
The eTrade for Women initiative led by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development invites participants for a Masterclass for women digital entrepreneurs. The Masterclass, which will be held in Lagos, Nigeria, is aimed at addressing the barriers women entrepreneurs face in leveraging business opportunities from digital technologies for growth. The Masterclass is organized in partnership with Damilola Olokesusi, Founder and CEO of Shuttlers and an Advocate for eTrade for Women.
Participants in the Masterclass will have an opportunity to engage with renowned business leaders and experts in their fields. The Masterclass will be a combination of inspirational talks, learning sessions, networking and policy dialogues. Interested applicants need to fulfil the following requirements:
- Be a woman founder of an e-commerce business, or of a company that uses digital technologies as part of its business model
- Have a business based in one of the following countries: Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda
- Have a track record of 2 to 5 years in this role
- Have an intent to make a difference and impact your ecosystem
To apply for the Masterclass, visit: Applications
Apply for the CATAPULT Inclusion Africa Acceleration program before 15 September 2022
Apply for the CATAPULT Inclusion Africa Acceleration program before 15 September 2022
The LHoFT Foundation, a public-private sector initiative for the Inclusive Finance Network Luxembourg (InFiNe.lu), invites applicants to the Catapult Inclusion Africa Accelerator program. The program targets start-ups focusing on financial inclusion in Africa, aiming to build bridges with Luxembourg’s Microfinance Industry. The start-ups should also be aligned with the sustainability goals of Luxembourg’s finance centre.
Interested applicants are invited to apply for the 5th edition of the program, which will be held in Luxembourg from October 24-28, 2022. The acceleration program is a unique one-week boot camp supporting 10 selected fintech companies in Africa. The program covers a wide range of topics including:
- Business model mapping
- Scaling strategies
- Investment readiness
- Business plan presentation
- Legal strategy
- Pricing
- Marketing strategy
Interested participants must fulfil the following criteria to apply
- Selected firms will have, at least, a demonstrable Minimum Viable Product (“MVP”) and will likely be in the pre-seed to seed stage of funding.
- Companies must be active in the financial inclusion field, helping underserved and unbanked populations in Africa get access to financial products and services.
- Companies will submit all necessary information to the LHoFT in order to assess the viability of the project, company, background of owners and key shareholders to limit the risks of non-compliance or doubtful application to the program.
- Companies must agree and shall provide ongoing performance metrics and business status for a period of three years post program completion to the LHoFT for the purposes of program evaluation.
- The selected firm must guarantee that a founding team member, typically the CEO, will attend the program for the duration of the week.
- We are particularly interested in hearing from firms in payments and related services.
The 10 successfully selected Fintechs from the one-week boot camp will have the opportunity to connect with partners, sponsors, investors, microfinance institutions, and public financial institutions as well as access to InFiNe.lu mentorship.
To apply for this program, visit: CATAPULT Applications
Are you a digital or tech enterprise with an innovative trade or green infrastructure solution? Apply to the AUDA-NEPAD call for digital solutions before 31 August 2022
Are you a digital or tech enterprise with an innovative trade or green infrastructure solution? Apply to the AUDA-NEPAD call for digital solutions before 31 August 2022
The Africa Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD), in partnership with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), announced a call for digital solutions for small and medium enterprises. The call seeks enterprises that provide digital solutions to support trade and/or green infrastructure. Through the programme, successful applicants will receive business development support, investment-readiness support, business-specific advisory, and capacity building.
Interested applicants will have to meet the following criteria to be considered:
- Be an early-stage business
- Be registered as a for-profit entity
- Must have a team of at least three (3) people
- Have proof of concept established either by a pilot or by similar, pre-existing projects elsewhere
- Have a business idea with a digital or tech focus
- Digital/tech must be central to the business strategy/value proposition.
- Have a focus on trade and/or green infrastructure
- Digital solution must have a demonstrable climate change adaptation (increasing resilience) or mitigation (reducing greenhouse gas emissions) impact
- Digital solution must have a beneficial environmental impact (e.g., clearing invasive species, reducing plastic waste, repurposing hazardous waste)
- Digital solution must demonstrate their impact on trade and/or trade-related activities, especially across the national border (within a country is acceptable)
- Business must be based in an Africa Union Member State with its largest market (>75% turnover) and employment base (>75% of personnel) in Africa.
For more information and application details, visit: Call for Digital Solutions
Apply for the GAIN-AFREXIM Masterclass on Entrepreneurship and Intra-African Trade before 31 July 2022
Apply for the GAIN-AFREXIM Masterclass on Entrepreneurship and Intra-African Trade before 31 July 2022
Grand Africa Initiative (GAIN), a non-governmental pan-African organization, in partnership with Africa Export-Import (AFREXIM), invites applicants for the GAIN-AFREXIM Masterclass on Entrepreneurship and Intra-African Trade. The masterclass is a program aimed at unlocking the potential of young African entrepreneurs to benefit from the opportunities in the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AFCFTA) comprising more than 1.2 billion people and to promote intra-African trade.
The program is designed to equip 200 young entrepreneurs from across Africa with skills to build and scale their businesses across the continent and beyond, leverage partnerships, attract more significant trade volumes/revenues, and explore new opportunities.
Upon successful completion of the program, applicants will be able to:
- Grow and position their business favourably in the global market
- Identify new and exciting business opportunities
- Build partnerships in Africa and beyond
- Expand business and revenues
- Take payments and manage trade finance
Interested applicants should fulfill the following to qualify for the program:
- Be an African business owner under 40 years of age
- Have a registered business
- Be at a stage where the business is already generating revenue
- Demonstrate interest in scaling their business
To apply for the program, visit: GAIN AFREXIM Applications
Are you interested in onboarding your business onto an e-commerce platform? Apply for the E-Commerce Boosting Program before 31 July 2022
Are you interested in onboarding your business onto an e-commerce platform? Apply for the E-Commerce Boosting Program before 31 July 2022
The E-Commerce Center (ECC), a Public Private Partnership infrastructure set up to enable the e-commerce ecosystem, invites applicants for the E-Commerce Boosting Program. The program is a series of practical and technical trainings meant to prepare Rwandan small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to list their products and services on RwandaMart, Rwanda’s leading e-commerce platform. The program is supported by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the Government of Rwanda as part of the initiative “Rwanda: Enabling the Future of E-Commerce”. The initiative aims to set up infrastructure and support mechanisms for Rwandan SMEs to sell goods via an online business-to-consumer e-commerce marketplace for trading products and services both domestically and cross-border.
Successful applicants will receive training in the following:
- Introduction to e-commerce
- Inventory management
- Engineering
- Marketplace store setup and configuration
- Business compliance
- Online marketing
Additionally, successful applicants will be offered an opportunity to be listed on RwandaMart, access to local and international sales events, a seller certification from RwandaMart, and a chance to apply for a low-interest loan offered by Inkomoko Entrepreneur Development.
Interested applicants must fulfill the following criteria to apply:
- Be registered with RDB
- Use Electronic Billing Machines for receipts
- Be an actively running business, with quality products/services already available on the market
To apply for this program, visit: Applications
For any inquiries about the program, reach out to contact: 0791345390 or send an email to info@ecc.com.
Are you a woman entrepreneur interested in scaling up your business? Apply for this programme before 18 July 2022
Are you a woman entrepreneur interested in scaling up your business? Apply for this programme before 18 July 2022
The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) and the Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) initiative of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) invite applicants for the “Solutions Catalysing Increased Access to Capital for the Success of Women Entrepreneurs” programme. The programme aims to accelerate efforts to address gender inequality and drive inclusive economic transformation. Through the programme, AFAWA and AWIEF seek to drive increased access to finance and markets for women-owned and women-led small and medium enterprises (WSMEs) across Southern, East, and West Africa.
Over 510 WSMEs will be supported to scale, access markets, and receive investment readiness training. The programme is eligible for WSMEs from 8 African countries, including Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Interested participants can apply for any of the following programme components:
- AWIEF Growth Accelerator (in partnership with Nedbank) – to enhance investment readiness and increase access to finance.
- eCommerce Capacity Development (in partnership with UNIDO) – for building knowledge, capacity, and skills in digital channels to increase participation and success in online business.
- Digital Skills (in partnership with Amazon Web Services) – strengthen WSME’s capacity to embrace technology innovation.
- Mentorship and Advisory – enhancing the visibility and access to role models for WSMEs through a mentorship platform.
To apply for the programme, visit: Applications
Are you an innovative Agri-tech entrepreneur? Apply for the Pitch AgriHack 2022 competition before 29 July 2022
Are you an innovative Agri-tech entrepreneur? Apply for the Pitch AgriHack 2022 competition before 29 July 2022
In partnership with African Green Revolution Forum and Generation Africa, Heifer International invites applicants to the eighth edition Pitch AgriHack 2022 competition. Pitch AgriHack is a digital agricultural competition focused on accelerating entrepreneurial growth and job creation by leveraging advanced tech and youth participation in Africa’s food security agenda.
Through the competition, six successful participants from three open competition categories, including early-stage, mature/growth stage, and women-led, will be awarded cash prizes totaling USD 45,000. Additionally, participants to the competition will benefit from the following:
- A fourth invite-only category, known as the AYuTe Africa Challenge, sponsored by Heifer International, will award up to US$1.5 million in grants to scalable ventures already generating measurable impact for Africa’s smallholder farmers.
- Six winners will be selected from the open-application categories and two winners from the invite-only AYuTe Africa Challenge category. The winners will be announced at the AGRF Summit on September 5-9 in Kigali.
- Top contestants will receive a one-day boot camp in preparation for their final pitches, with winners receiving continued support as they develop and grow their enterprises.
- Business profiles of the finalists will also be published in a Deal Book for circulation at the AGRF and online, while individual profiles will be made public on the orgplatform and reviewed for relevance to their investor community.
Interested applicants must fulfill the following to apply:
- Have a clear and defined description of how their solution is impacting smallholder farmers
- Have a strong organizational and operational structure
- Be aged 18-40 on the day of submission to the 2022 Pitch AgriHack Competition
- Hold nationality (with official ID) from any of the 54 nations of the African Union
- Be the founder/co-founder of the enterprise represented in the competition and play an active role in its operations and leadership
- Have no criminal record related to corruption, tax evasion, financial impropriety, felony, or other offenses
- Not be a previous Pitch AgriHack finalist or winner
- Must submit the application form in English
- Must agree with the Terms & Conditions
To apply for the competition, visit: Applications
For more information on the competition, visit: Pitch AgriHack 2022
Are you an early-stage justice entrepreneur interested in training and funding? Apply for the Justice Entrepreneurship School before 30 June 2022
Are you an early-stage justice entrepreneur interested in training and funding? Apply for the Justice Entrepreneurship School before 30 June 2022
The HiiL Innovation Hub, a social enterprise dedicated to supporting justice entrepreneurs in East Africa, invites applicants for the Justice Entrepreneurship School incubation programme. The programme supports early-stage entrepreneurs preventing or resolving pressing justice needs in their communities. Entrepreneurs will be offered high-quality action learning through the program on business modelling, storytelling, pitching, and justice design thinking.
The programme is suitable for start-up entrepreneurs who:
- Have a solution that meets the needs of those who struggle to access adequate, easy-to-understand, affordable, and accessible means to prevent or resolve their justice problems
- Have a basic product or service, that is, an existing prototype or minimal viable problem
- Have no traction; that is, the product is still not in the hand of users, or it’s only in the hands of a small number of early adopter users, where we still do not see enough evidence that this product or business can work
- Led by a team of 2 or 3 committed and passionate co-founders who shares a drive for justice and impact
Successful applicants to the programme will benefit from the following:
- A one-week residential boot camp delivered by industry specialists on topics such as business growth, team & leadership, design thinking
- Coaching sessions and mentorship on topics of your choice
- Access to HiiL’s regional network of justice leaders, legal tech organisations, and top-level researchers
- Certification and a learning platform for self-service
- Chance to win up to €1000 at the end of the programme during the Justice Innovation Circle demo day
To apply for the programme, visit: Justice Entrepreneurship School Applications
Are you a women entrepreneur running a for-profit business with a social and environmental impact on your community? Apply for the 2023 Regional Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards before 30 June
Are you a women entrepreneur running a for-profit business with a social and environmental impact on your community? Apply for the 2023 Regional Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards before 30 June
The Cartier Women’s Initiative, an annual international entrepreneurship program, invites women entrepreneurs to apply for the 2023 Regional Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards. The program aims to drive change by empowering women entrepreneurs with businesses that have a strong and sustainable social and environmental impact.
Interested applicants must fulfill the following criteria to apply for the Awards:
- Business should be a for-profit designed to generate sufficient revenue to support its operations and return some level of profit to its owners.
- Business should be in the early stage of its development and growth (between 1 and 6 years of registered operations as date of application) with a proven business model.
- Business should be generating revenue from the sales of products and/or services for at least one year as of the date of the application.
- Business should not have raised more than USD 2,000,000 in dilutive funding (any kind of funding that requires you to give away a piece of your company, including not only future profits but possibly control).
- Business should demonstrate having a positive impact in its industry and demonstrate it has potential to have more impact if successful with the Awards.
- Business should contribute to at least one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs).
Successful applicants will benefit from the following
- Financial capital support: Successful applicants will be awarded grants in three categories. The first-place awardee will receive USD 100,000; the second-place awardee will receive USD 60,000; the third-place awardee will receive USD 30,000.
- Human capital support: Successful applicants will be offered training and collective workshops involving coaching, mentorship, and peer learning.
- Social capital support: Successful applicants will gain international exposure and media visibility and access to an online and offline community of 500+ experts and peers
To apply for the Awards, visit: Applications