Venture Capital for Africa

Ashoka’s Social Investment Accelerator: Scaling system-changing solutions

The Ashoka Social Investment Accelerator is designed to support 12 social enterprises from across Africa and aims to boost their fundraising efforts. Ashoka has… read more

Power-as-a-service leader Rensource raises $3.5M for expansion in Nigeria

Rensource Energy, a Lagos-based distributed energy provider, has raised $3.5 million USD in bridge financing to grow its power-as-a-service renewable energy business. The funds… read more

Somali Accelerator Innovate Ventures invests $30,000 at Demo Day in Hargeisa

Innovate Ventures, the leading Somali tech and business startup accelerator launched in partnership with VC4A, Telesom and the Work in Progress! Alliance, had their… read more

Make-IT Africa: Accelerating digital startups with social impact in Kenya and Nigeria

The Make-IT Africa programme is looking for up to 30 digital startups that have a social impact to run through a nine months acceleration… read more

PitchDrive five-city Europe tour of 14 African tech startups begins

Co-creation Hub (CcHUB), Nigeria’s leading social innovation centre in partnership with Google for Entrepreneurs, is organising PitchDrive where we will take 14 selected startups… read more

Announcing the 2017 African Early Stage Investor Summit: Start-Scale-Exit

Africa’s early-stage investor community comes together in November for the 4th annual African Angel Investor Summit #AAIS2017 and a bonus ‘Cape Town Innovation Tour’.… read more

VC4A research proves founder teams are key to startup success in Africa

Data from VC4A’s new ‘2017 Venture Finance in Africa’ research proves that a strong team of founders is the key driver of startup success… read more

Show me the money: A quick guide to Africa’s early stage tech capital

Over the last 6 years, our team at TLcom met dozens of African entrepreneurs. While there are many challenges facing most of these founders… read more

How consumer data can improve your investment decision in Africa

Recently we released a white-paper report for investors and fund managers looking at emerging markets entitled Improve Investment Decision in Africa. By using ‘Consumer… read more

How to raise capital globally: Keep a clean ‘dealroom’ and know who to target

Last month I shared my story on how I started BitPesa, a payments company headquartered in Kenya with operations in Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, the UK,… read more