Accelerate Africa Cohort 3

Please note – AA3 applications open December 9, 2024 and close on January 7, 2025. The program welcome week starts on on February 16, 2025 with Demo Day on May 2, 2025 in Lagos, Nigeria.

Accelerate Africa is a pre-seed / seed stage accelerator program that accelerates bold and visionary founders turning our collective challenges into global businesses, providing the client intros, resources, advisors, and networks to get you on a path to $1m in revenue within 18 months of completion. We run multiple cohorts per year for up to 10 startups over 8 weeks, selecting startups from across the African continent to get support in areas such as storytelling, team development, go-to-market, product development, and fundraising.

We believe founders who can turn Africa’s biggest challenges into global businesses come in a variety of backgrounds, abilities, languages, genders, ages, ethnicities, and more. This is why 40% of founders we have worked with are women, range in age from their 20’s to their 60’s, and come from and work in over 10 African countries.

The founders we back have some consistent features:

• Passionate about solving a real problem and have the track record or traction to prove it
• Deep understanding of their customers and consider it their life’s work to serve them
• Lived experience of the problem, driving them to build a business that seems impossible until it’s done

Check out the RFS page on our website to learn more about the themes we’re focusing on for the second cohort of Accelerate Africa.