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’. ..

Launching XL Africa, a program to position top digital scale-ups for global growth

In partnership with The World Bank Group, VC4A is pleased to announce the launch of XL Africa, a five-month post-acceleration program designed to support ..

Adansonia: Entrepreneurship training with a social twist

After a pilot project involving 400 entrepreneurs across Uganda, Kenya, and Ghana, a new project named Adansonia – conducted by Bocconi University – is ..

Africa’s Angel investing movement picks up momentum in 2017

This past week, the VC4Africa community converged in Johannesburg for the Global Entrepreneurship Congress 2017. It was the first time the global congress was hosted ..

Meet the 18 African startups pitching at the Seedstars Summit in Lausanne

Another year has passed in which the Seedstars World teams traveled to over 70 countries around the world, and 18 of them on the ..

Investing in Africa: Lessons learnt in 2016 by the African Business Angel Network

The beauty of transitioning between calendar years is that it seems easier than normal to take stock of what has been over the past ..

Funding your startup: South African investors that are delivering

For entrepreneurs wanting to find early-stage funding, this is the article for you. As there is generally a veil of secrecy surrounding funding and ..

Somali accelerator graduates receive $15,000 investment at Hargeisa Demo Day

Innovate Ventures, the first Somali tech startup accelerator launched in partnership with VC4A, Telesom and the Work in Progress! Alliance, had their first cohort ..

Startup Reactor 2016 cohort: 11 innovative Egyptian ventures to watch

A total of 11 Egyptian startups were selected by Innoventures’ Startup Reactor Accelerator as the most innovative and financially promising ideas after securing the ..

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 ..