Many thanks to the great group of Accelerator leaders who gathered at Sankalp in Nairobi, Kenya back in February to update and expand our Accelerator Focus Map.
We discovered that there were 5 main clusters of organizational support for entrepreneurs in Africa. Unfortunately due to resolution issues with our website host, the image we created is a bit difficult to read, so we have provided a list of the 5 clusters below for easier reference.
IDEA STAGE – SUPPORT WITH BUSINESS PLAN
@BizAfrica
Chandaria
Fond. Accra
HUB East Africa
Impact HUB
m:lab MIVP
Nailab
Pears Challenge
Sinapis
World Bank Innovation Challenge
With the following companies secondarily focused in this area:
Climate Innovation Center
Global Business Lab
IDEA STAGE – SUPPORT WITH BUSINESS PITCH
@iBiz Africa
Centre for Social Impact
Health Enterprise Challenge Fund
Reach for Change
Sinapis
World Bank Innovation Challenge
PROTOTYPE STAGE – SUPPORT WITH BUSINESS PLAN
BOP Innovation Center
CURAD
iHUB
VIA Water
WOELAB
With the following companies secondarily focused in this area:
EWB Canada
Sinapis
PROTOTYPE STAGE – SUPPORT WITH PARTNERSHIPS
CloudBreak
EWB Canada
HUB Accra
Nairobi Edtech Meetup
With the following companies secondarily focused in this area:
Curad
Global Minimum
iHUB
MEST Ghana
VIA Water
Villgro Kenya
SCALING STAGE – SUPPORT WITH CAPITAL ACQUISITION
GVEP International
OPES Impact Fund
VCU Africa
Village Inc. Africa
With the following companies secondarily focused in this area:
@Biz Africa
Growth Africa Crowdfunding
Open Capital Advisors
Unreasonable East Africa
SCALING STAGE – SUPPORT WITH BUSINESS PLAN
Growth Africa
MEST Ghana
Open Capital
With the following companies secondarily focused in this area:
@Biz Africa