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Female-founding teams in Africa received an abysmal 1% of total funding on the continent in 2021. Make-IT in Africa launches the ScaleX Project to support early-stage gender-lens ecosystem actors.

Are you a startup in Africa with a digital product or services already in the market? Then apply to this Growth Hacking Program to increase sales, get customers and grow your Business.

Are you a Makerspace in Western or Eastern Africa? Then apply to our Research and Development program and join us as we bridge the innovation gap to drive impactful change.

A framework and guide for ESOs to foster collaboration between SGBs and large enterprises

The Women in Leadership Program with Stellenbosch Business School provides African women with skills, resources and support to become tomorrow’s successful leaders in the innovation space.

Together with IRESEN and Viridian we gathered twelve West African tech hubs in Dakar, Senegal, for a Bootcamp. The overarching topic: transitioning the hubs into Greentech spaces.

Startups from our NextGen FinTech Accelerator programme pitched at the Ghana Digital Innovation Week in November 2022.

BongoHive, in partnership with ESTDEV, Garage48 and us hosted the second edition of the Empowering the Startup Community Hackathon in Lusaka, Zambia, from the 15th-17th November 2022.

Investors, entrepreneurs, innovation hubs, government actors and other innovation ecosystem players gathered on the 19th of August 2022 in Kampala for the launch of the Investment Guide Uganda.

Startups, from Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya and Rwanda participated in Deep Dive Africa II. Startups worked collaboratively to drive global investor interest and increase funding opportunities.