Grants, loans, investors and accelerators for African entrepreneurs — researched daily, links verified, expired ones removed.
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CANEX W is Afreximbank's initiative to support women entrepreneurs in Africa's creative and cultural industries, including fashion, film, music, design, and digital…
The AEDP provides trade finance, working capital, and export credit facilities to African SMEs seeking to expand intra-African or international trade under…
AFAWA is an AfDB initiative that makes it easier for women-led SMEs to borrow. It shares lending risk with banks, offers guarantees…
Nigeria All AfricaAll sectorsAgricultureEarly-stage venture capital investor and accelerator targeting pre-seed and seed-stage startups across Africa, with a focus on technology-enabled businesses solving real problems.…
Partech Africa is a pan-African venture capital fund investing in tech-enabled startups across the continent. It targets Series A and early growth-stage…
Norrsken22 is a $200 million venture capital fund dedicated to backing Africa's fastest-growing tech startups with both financial and impact ambitions. It…
Launch Africa is a pan-African micro-VC fund that invests in pre-seed and seed-stage tech startups across Africa, with a portfolio spanning over…
The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) provides grants and repayable grants to private sector businesses that improve food systems, agricultural productivity, and…
GIZ's develoPPP programme co-finances innovative private sector projects in developing countries including Africa that contribute to sustainable development. European or African companies…
The African Business Angel Network (ABAN) connects early-stage African startups with its network of over 50 affiliated angel investor networks and thousands…
Annual global social entrepreneurship competition challenging student teams to solve the world's most pressing problems. African student founders can compete through campus…
The AECF provides grants and concessional loans to private sector businesses in Africa working on climate-smart agriculture, renewable energy, and green business…
Africa50 is a pan-African infrastructure investment platform that includes Rwanda as a shareholder country, financing large-scale infrastructure and enabling projects across the…
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Morocco+3EnergyTransportIngressive Capital is a Lagos-based early-stage VC fund that invests up to $500k in tech-enabled African startups, targeting about 10% ownership. It…
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Kenya+3Tech-enabled startups (multi-sector)VKAV is a $60M pan-African fund formed by Verod Capital and Kepple Africa Ventures. It invests in growth-stage, tech-enabled companies. kepple-africa-ventures.com now…
Nigeria Kenya+5Sector-agnostic: infrastructure, inefficiency solvers, homegrown innovationFintechVisa's fintech accelerator for Africa, run under the Visa Everywhere Initiative. It offers training, 1:1 mentorship, Visa developer tools, a Demo Day…
Catalyst Fund is an accelerator and grant facility backing early-stage startups in Africa and Asia that use technology to build climate resilience…
SunFunder (now part of Nuveen) provides debt financing to solar energy businesses and off-grid clean energy SMEs across Africa, enabling them to…
IFAD channels concessional loans and grants through partner governments and rural financial institutions to support smallholder farmers, agri-cooperatives, and rural enterprises across…
USAID DIV funds breakthrough innovations that improve the lives of people in developing countries, including across Africa. Tier 1 grants support early-stage…
The YALI Regional Leadership Centers — hosted in Ghana (West Africa), Kenya (East Africa), South Africa (Southern Africa), and Senegal (Francophone West…
The African Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) runs an annual awards competition and an accelerator programme for women entrepreneurs across Africa,…
SheTrades is the International Trade Centre's initiative to connect 3 million women entrepreneurs to international markets by 2021 and beyond, with ongoing…
The Ashoka Fellowship identifies and supports the world's leading social entrepreneurs — individuals with powerful new ideas that create systemic change at…
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