OUR ACTIONS & PROGRAMS
OUR ACTION PLAN
Digital Africa’s programs are organized around 3 key points:
Supporting high-impact digital startups:
developing their technical and entrepreneurial expertise and providing digital support, access to finance, exposure to international partners and access to an open data infrastructure.
Fundraising and sourcing finance to scale-up Africa’s tech innovations:
bringing together African and international VCs to partner Africa’s tech entrepreneurs, creating a Digital Africa investor club, setting up an annual deal book, fostering partnerships to encourage exchanges between startups and large corporations.
Advocating policies that will drive digital entrepreneurship across Africa
developing an annual index to rate the quality of the regulatory and economic environment, organizing courses promoting open data and innovation and supporting the African Union with strategy development on creating a free-trade zone across Africa.
Key performance indicators have been developed to assess the success and impact of each program.
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Launched in: 8 Oct 2021
Talent 4 Startups is a program which aims to support the training of talents in tech and digital professions on the African continent. By covering the costs of training in high-demand sectors and then facilitating the connection between talents and start-ups that are recruiting, Talent 4 Startups improves the employability of young people while meeting the skills needs of the ecosystem.
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Education
Skills
Staffing
Launched in: 5 Nov 2020
Promoted by Digital Africa and deployed by Proparco, the Bridge Fund by Digital Africa is intended to be an appropriate response to the challenges confronting young innovative African companies, whose development is harmed by the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Co-investment
Financial loan
Fundraising
Launched in: 16 Jul 2020
The Africa Next Community is committed to driving co-investment in fast-growing innovative businesses by inviting English and French speaking venture capitalists from Europe and Africa to select projects based on e-pitches.
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Bringing communities together
Investors
VCs
Launched in: 7 Jul 2020
Launched in Summer 2020, the Resilient Summer School is the first training module developed by the Digital Africa Campus – a capacity-building program for African entrepreneurs co-developed with elite partners. This fully online module focused on entrepreneurial resilience, particularly important in times of crisis.
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Mentoring
Online masterclasses
Launched in: 2 Dec 2019
The Seed Fund by Digital Africa is dedicated to financing and supporting African digital startups.
With €15 million allocated by the French Development Agency (AFD), the fund relies on the expertise of six ecosystem operators to develop training programmes for incubators and seed stage financing for startups in 45 African countries.
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Fundraising
Pre-seed
Seed
Venture Capital
