- Learning
How to build your team, by Juliet Wanyiri -Startup Setup 6
The team that a founder starts off with is a major factor that will impact their startup’s ability to overcome inevitable shocks ahead. In
- Entrepreneurship
Tech54 – March’s selection of deals
We are pleased to announce an exciting new partnership with African Business magazine and Briter Bridges to feature Tech54, their bi-monthly newslette…
- Entrepreneurship
Announcing launch of fully virtual second cycle of VC4A’s Mentor-Driven Capital program in South Africa, Botswana and Zambia
COVID-19 is forcing everyone to find new ways of working. In VC4A’s Mentor-Driven Capital program, powered by SAIS, it’s no different. We are therefor…
- Entrepreneurship
Strategies for startup entrepreneurs – Keeping your business alive through COVID-19
The COVID-19 virus continues to wreck havoc on international markets, presenting entrepreneurs with a dire economic outlook and growing set of challen…
- Case studies
Innovative African startups in the battle against COVID-19
Innovative African startups in the battle against COVID-19. Please help share and promote these companies! In the last two weeks, the number of affect…
- Entrepreneurship
Scaling digital agriculture innovations: Startups selected for investment readiness program
Meet the 14 African startups selected for the GIZ-SAIS Investment Readiness Program kicked off in Nairobi, Kenya on 12-13 December 2019. The “Scaling …
- Case studies
Building African success stories, from Startup to Series A
As 2019 comes to an end, we look back on a productive year! VC4A passed many key milestones, one that included welcoming our 100,000th
- Entrepreneurship
The NESG Startup Pitch Competition: Creating Business Opportunities
The 25th Nigerian Economic Summit (NES25) startup pitch competition is now open for entries. The competition is organized by the Nigerian Economic Sum…
- Entrepreneurship
Pitch AgriHack 2019: Finalists announced
The stage is set for the 2019 iteration of the Pitch AgriHack competition. 20 judges have completed the evaluation of semi-finalist start-ups and have
- Entrepreneurship
Meet the finalists of the PIVOT East 2019 startup competition
The PIVOT EAST is a program of targeted entrepreneurial workshops, pitching competition and conference for entrepreneurs leveraging technology to prov…