Qualcomm® Make in Africa Startup Mentorship Program

Helping African startups bring their innovations to the market

As the first initiative of its kind in Africa, this equity-free mentorship program will identify promising early-stage startups keen on applying advanced connectivity and processing technologies to innovative end-to-end systems solutions, including hardware, and provide these companies with business coaching, access to engineering consultation for product development, and guidance on protecting intellectual property.

Benefits

  1. Mentorship: Receive mentorship from Qualcomm leaders on a regular cadence and Guide startups to product realization.
  2. Skilling: Masterclasses on product management, pitch clinic, IPR, hardware architecture.
  3. Visibility: Demo day with the startup ecosystem and an opportunity to connect with various industry leaders, VCs, investors, and other accelerators

Program Timeline

  • Application Phase: December 13th 2022 to February 28th 2023
  • Shortlisting of the Startups: March 2023
  • Mentorship Program: April 2023 to November 2023
  • Program Finale & Demo Day: December 2023

Overview

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February 28, 2023
Program dates Apr 3 - Nov 28, 2023
Organizer Qualcomm
Website Visit website
Targets Africa
Sectors Sector agnostic
SDG (17) All

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