Venture Capital for Africa

Crowdsourcing a global movement, an online marketplace for African startups

The Venture Capital for Africa (VC4Africa) community is dedicated to supporting the growth of Africa’s start up ecosystem. The network building organization started in ..

“Unreasonable Africa” is an Africa where nothing and no one is taken at face value

These are the opening remarks I gave at the Oxford Business Forum Africa ‘Unreasonable Africa’ held at the University of Oxford on the 11th ..

VC4Africa launches third generation platform, a global community for African startups

VC4Africa is pleased to present to you its third generation website. Read more about the background of the organization and some of the thinking ..

Meet the DEMO Africa Innovation Tour in 16 countries across the continent!

DEMO Africa has kick started its innovation tours of various capitals across Africa. These tours will see the DEMO team visiting 16 countries around ..

Invitation: Calling the world’s leading investors to back Africa’s top innovators

Now is the time. Now is the time to be investing in Africa. A billion consumers, improving political stability, a rising middle class, continued ..

Join a global series of VC4Africa meetups as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013

We believe entrepreneurship development in Africa can be accelerated when we connect a global network of knowledge and capital. As part of this year’s Global ..

Results of VC4Africa’s 2013 SME Performance Index

The team at VC4Africa recently reached out to entrepreneurs part of the community to find our more about their progress. These are the results ..

MEST, Ghana: preparing Africa’s tech entrepreneurs to compete with Silicon Valley

Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST), based in Accra, Ghana, is one of the partners in VC4Africa’s partnership network, bringing in various ventures to ..

Entrepreneurs in Africa: forget innovation, focus on profitability

This article by Michelle Atagana originally appeared on Ventureburn, a VC4Africa publishing partner. Let’s forget building the next Facebook, Google or Apple, writes Michelle Atagana. Instead African entrepreneurs ..

Towards a vibrant venture capital sector in Africa

What needs to be done, by policy-makers of African governments and others, to create a thriving economic environment for emerging entrepreneurs in Africa? Lerato ..