Gen F Entrepreneur In Residence 2024

Turning startup concepts into reality in 12 weeks

Are you an aspiring entrepreneur or founder with an early idea/concept in need of a support partner to ignite it? Do you have an innovative idea that just needs that next-step support to move from 0 to 1?

Bootstrapping a new idea is hard. It requires certain skills and most founders can’t take the financial risk.

How can Gen F help you build? We give you an experimentation budget and access to experts to test and launch your idea. You’ll then qualify to pitch for up to $250k further funding to launch it.

Who is Gen F for?

Exceptional founders/aspiring entrepreneurs looking to build out and test their ideas, achieve commercial success and create outsized, systemic impact.
Outstanding professionals and domain experts looking to make the transition from the corporate environment to entrepreneurship.
Founders looking to build tech solutions that solve Africa’s largest problems and catalyse change.
Entrepreneurs who have a keen eye for local market gaps and a sharp sense for local problems that they are passionate about solving.

Who qualifies for the Gen F Initiative?

Aspiring founders with the relevant background building a VC-backable startup. These could be:

Former startup founders who understand what it takes to build startup ideas
Domain experts who have a unique insight into the problem they are trying to solve
Corporate professionals looking to move into entrepreneurship due to a gap in the market that they have identified
Senior operators who have worked in an African startup previously
Founders with a well-researched concept solving a deep African problem in a large market
Founders who are able to commit full-time to refine and validate their concept for 10-12 weeks, and then move full-time into their startup
Ideas with high potential for commercial returns, with embedded impact
Founders who are at the earliest stages of building their startup idea (pre-revenue)

During GenF, we provide:

A competitive once-off budget to run market validation experiments
Working closing with our venture builders to refine your concept and help you prep for IC
If Investment Committe approved: Free access to our studio services to launch your startup and up to $250 000 in funding available

Note: We don’t take payment from founders (in the form of a programme fee or otherwise) to participate in GenF.

If this sounds like you, apply here. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.