Info For You Lot Vc4a Corporation Showcase – Serial A For High-Growth African Startups (All Expenses Paid Trip To Cape Town, Southward Africa)

VC4A Venture Showcase – Series A
(Calling for disruptive scale-ups looking to enhance betwixt $250K as well as $5M)


Program(s) Offered: Entrepreneurs
Program Level: Training, mentorship, networking
Provider: VC4A
Country to Work in: South Africa

Scholarship Description
Venture Capital for Africa (VC4A) announces Series H5N1 Venture Showcase every bit usage of 2018 Africa Early Stage Investor Summit.

We’re looking for eight innovative, high-growth scale-ups to showcase at Africa Early Stage Investor Summit on Nov 11-12 inward Cape Town. Are yous operating inward Africa, generating revenue as well as looking to enhance your Series H5N1 circular inward the make of $250K as well as $5M? This is the chance you’ve been looking for!

VC4A is calling for disruptive African scale-ups looking to enhance betwixt $250K as well as $5M. An exclusive Series H5N1 Venture Showcase volition accept identify inward Cape Town on Nov 12, 2018, every bit usage of the annual Africa Early Stage Investor Summit.

Eligibility
Eligibility criteria include:
  • Your society is for-profit as well as registered every bit an independent legal entity;
  • You stimulate got a production or service available on the marketplace as well as generate revenue;
  • Your production or service is clearly innovative and/or your work organisation model is new, disruptive as well as designed for scale;
  • You stimulate got a really strong administration squad of at to the lowest degree three people;
  • Your squad is based inward 1 or to a greater extent than countries on the African continent;
  • You are seeking Series H5N1 investment inward the make of $250K – $5M;
  • While at that spot volition go exceptions, near probable your startup has already received external investment, structured every bit either debt or equity, or received grants from donor organizations.
Selection criteria:
  1. Innovativeness as well as Scalability (25%): Your society addresses a existent work inward the marketplace inward a clearly innovative way. Your production or service is dissimilar to others inward the industry. Your work organisation model is new, disruptive as well as designed for scale.
  2. Strategy for Growth (25%): There is potential to expand into novel markets or expand at home. You stimulate got a clear strategy how to grow your society as well as nosotros tin encounter demonstrable progress inward price of client acquisition plans, novel contracts, as well as key partnerships.
  3. Management squad (25%): The squad has the qualifications needed to brand the work organisation successful.
  4. Market Traction & Financials (25%): We volition evaluate your marketplace traction as well as await at the potential marketplace size. We’ll likewise await at your work organisation model, revenue streams as well as unit of measurement economics, as well as if whatsoever exterior funding has been raised before.
Eligible groups
Citizens of the next countries:
Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Rep, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Dem. Rep. Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Republic of Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Reunion, Rwanda, São Tomé as well as Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Participating Institutions
Venture Capital for Africa (VC4A), Cape Town, South Africa

Fields of study
Sectors that stimulate got been involved include: Agribusiness, Business services, Clean applied scientific discipline as well as energy, Construction as well as manufacturing, Creative, media as well as entertainment, Education, Financial services, Healthcare, ICT, Leisure as well as travel, Retail as well as wholesale, Transport as well as logistics, Water, sanitation as well as hygiene

Number of awards
eight African start-ups volition have awards

Sponsorship duration
Program dates is betwixt Nov nine - Nov 16, 2018

Scholarship benefits
What nosotros offer
  • All expenses paid trip to Cape Town on Nov 9-16, 2018
  • 3 bit pitch inward forepart of 300+ investors at the Africa Early Stage Investor Summit
  • 20 bit deep-dive session alongside investors inward a someone room
  • Two days of networking alongside investors, including Speaker Cocktail as well as Industry Leaders dinner
  • Mentorship as well as pitch preparation past times partner VC investors
  • Opportunity to attend as well as pitch at partner events AfricaCom as well as AfricArena
Method of Application
Applications are done online on the official website. You must log inward to your Venture Capital for Africa work organisation human relationship to submit your application to 2018 VC4A Venture Showcase – Series A. If yous produce non soundless stimulate got an Venture Capital for Africa account, yous volition demand to register as well as hence log in. Click on 'APPLY' on the official website (link to it is below) to start your application.

DEADLINES:
Application starts July 11th, 2018. Closing engagement is August 20th, 2018

PLEASE NOTE:
The Africa platform for startup funding, VC4A (Venture Capital for Africa) is a fast growing community of work organisation professionals (entrepreneurs, mentors, investors as well as organizations) inward 159 countries dedicated to edifice game changing companies on the continent.

In 2017, nosotros showcased xx scale-ups from the XL Africa program every bit usage of the Africa Early Stage Investor Summit, resulting inward a give away of Series H5N1 deals totalling over $12M. Building on this success, the ‘VC4A Venture Showcase – Series A’ is forthwith integrated every bit a key ingredient of our annual Summit. This is an exclusive chance to innovate your society at in 1 lawsuit to everyone who’s anyone inward Africa’s early-stage investment space.

Application Deadline: xx August 2018
Open to International Applicants: No (ONLY Africans)

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