Seed and Series-A Investing
The VC4A Venture Showcase is an exclusive program of choice for innovative entrepreneurs looking to raise their Seed funding and Series A rounds. Since 2017, it is one of the leading accelerator programs in Africa and Latin America, bringing together the most active investors, experienced mentors and the best founders.
Meet the twelve (12) promising startups that made it into 2023 VC4A Ventures Showcase Africa: 1) Duhqa, 2) Emata, 3) Fresh-Source, 4) Maad, 5) MPost, 6) OmniBiz, 7) Rology, 8) Pharmacy-Mart, 9) SimpliFi, 10) Treepz, 11) Vendy, and 12) Winich. The Deal Room is raising minimum U$D 200,000 of Seed funds and up to U$D 5 million of Series A rounds this year.
The VC4A Mentor-Driven Capital Program is unlocking the next startup opportunity for entrepreneurs through knowledge sharing and networking platforms for growth. These entrepreneurs offer a significant source of employment, contribute up to national GDPs of emerging markets and provide the foundation for a stable middle class.
Through the VC4A Mentor-Driven Capital Programme, Mr. Chimene Emejuru from the United States, provided mentorship support to Grill & Chow of Nigeria over a period of four months – April to July 2022. Mentor-driven capital is the VC4A approach to creating value for startups by sharing the knowledge, experience and network we’ve built during our career, while maximizing the return on investments.
Social Entrepreneurship
Acumen IKEA Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator is a 19-weeks co-created regional accelerator programme to strengthen social innovations through online learning at Acumen Academy and IKEA co-worker engagement for social enterprises across East Africa including Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda.
Meet the fourteen (14) social enterprises of the East Africa Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator 2021: 1) AgroSupply, 2) Ecobora, 3) era92 Creative, 4) GreenPot, 5) Hidota Farmers, 6) Jaguza Tech, 7) Mukuru Clean, 8) PayWay, 9) Smart Foods, 10) Solar Chill, 11) TAI Institute, 12) Vava Coffee, 13) WimRob, and 14) Zima Farms, by Acumen Inc and IKEA Foundation
The Investment Readiness Program (IRP) is a 16-week online accelerator program by SDSN Youth and Babale that helps young social entrepreneurs under 35 from all around the world become investment-ready through one-on-one mentoring, curated training resources, peer-to-peer networking, and other opportunities to support youth innovation.
Young people are highly talented and knowledgeable, but they still face many obstacles in advancing their solutions, such as a lack of financing access, networks for mentoring, a common narrative, or SDG alignment. The SDSN Youth and Babele helps accelerate the growth of youth solutions through a digital ecosystem of experts and resources, to refine their pitches, secure better funding, connect with experts and mentors, and find new partnerships to grow their SDG solutions.
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