Unicorn Incubation Program

Unicorn Group is a pan-African, investment company targeting innovative ideas, startups, and early-stage companies in the technology and technology-enabled sectors across Africa; that have the potential to emerge as unicorns. Unicorn provides education, training, mentorship, infrastructure, and long-term capital to entrepreneurs, startups, and early stages in the technology and technology-enabled sector through its ecosystem strategy.

We provide infrastructure, training, mentorship, market access, and patient capital for entrepreneurs, technology startups, and early-stage companies to address the challenges that they encounter.

The Unicorn Edge

We leverage our deep network of global accelerators, investors, technology companies to add value, nurture, equip and fund promising entrepreneurs & start-ups through the following channels:

• Acceleration:
  Accelerated time to market
  Rapid prototyping
• Funding:
  Access to co-investors after commercialisation phase
• Mentorship
  Learn from founders of successful technology companies
  Resident Operating Partners spend 1-day a week with company founders
  Specialist in-house residents always on ground to discuss business issues
• Networking
  Extended engagement with related global and local ecosystems and ventures
  Partnerships that provide access to world class investors, corporates, entrepreneurs, and innovators from San Francisco, Mexico City, Stuttgart and Budapest
• Community
  Connect with entrepreneurs from various geographies through
  Monthly workshops, clinics and events to foster peer-to-peer exchange
• Post-program support
  Coordinating follow-on fundraise
  Other Alumni opportunities