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South Africa / Sandton - Accelerators
Accelerate Africa
We accelerate Africa’s bold and visionary founders in the earliest stages of building global businesses that address Africa’s most significant challenges.<br> <br> <mark>We have hands-on operating experience in Africa to help you accelerate your business, plus the scars and stories to prove it. For over a decade, we have taken on various roles advising, coaching, and mentoring startups, including over 25+ that have been admitted to global accelerators.</mark> <br> <br> Our creators, Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Mia von Koschitzky-Kimani, have built, funded, and advised hundreds of African founding teams, including Andela, Flutterwave, Moove BV, Daystar Power, and DukaConnect, among others, on how to build global businesses from Africa by addressing our continent’s biggest challenges. Many of those businesses have grown to become billion-dollar companies with hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues, or have been acquired by global companies like Mastercard and Shell. <br> <br> Why Accelerate?<br> This is not your typical accelerator. It could be easy to mistake Accelerate Africa for your typical one-size-fits-all accelerator program, but nothing could be more different. <br> <br> First, we will accept 10 founders who will receive 1:1 support from advisors who have built, advised, invested in, and exited multiple successful businesses in Africa. <br> <br> Second, our program is designed to meet your needs as a founder in Africa, whether that be workshops across our five core areas, coaching sessions with our top advisors, or office hours for tech, legal, and finance support. You build community with other founders facing similar challenges, leveraging each other as a network of support as you develop your business. <br> <br> Finally, unlike most accelerators, we do not offer funding or take equity upon admittance. <mark>Our Accelerate Africa fund offers an optional investment to all founders upon completion of the program. </mark>Furthermore, our fund, Future Africa, may invest a pre-seed or seed-stage check of $250,000 to $500,000 after the program, following our standard investment process, which includes due diligence and an IC vote.
Sw7
Sw7 partners with technology businesses, portfolios and their investor networks pre and post fundraising to prepare for technology business valuations, to fundraise & find matched funding, to provide business support, board advisory, to assist with off-shore expansion and sale of the business. <mark>Sw7 are one of the leading technology accelerators in Africa, having run 9 cohorts including the first Fintech Accelerator in Africa and have worked with over 300+ technology businesses & Founders from early-stage to growth, funding & exit with shared insights from 100+ experienced Technology Founder CEOs.</mark> The Sw7 LinkedIn group in Africa has over five thousand members & partners include Amazon, Microsoft & Google. <p></p> For Founders, COOs, CTOs and Product Owners in B2B technology businesses and ISVs <br> - Get To Market <br> - Create Predictable Revenue <br> - Grow Your Business <br> - Expand Your Network <br> - Get Funded <br> - Scale <br> - Exit <p></p> Sw7 work directly with founders of B2B technology businesses to build the sales and marketing processes that generate predictable revenue. <p></p> This accelerates your path to high growth and scale, enables you to expand to new markets and puts you in the best position to get ready for your first or your next funding round or even prepare for exit. <p></p> <mark>Through a blend of private one-to-one workshops, board advisory and mentoring sessions, we work together on priority areas of focus that will move your business forward. We craft a compelling storyline with cohesive messaging that powers and connects your sales, marketing, funding, talent acquisition & team culture strategies.</mark> <p></p> Peer-to-peer learning and sharing of know-how happens on our platform and in our curated private round tables and group webinars with a network of resourceful founder CEOs, mentors, technology platform partners and investors. <p></p> Sw7 is fully virtual so you can join Sw7 from anywhere, anytime. This means that you can build your business and expand your network without the need to travel or to take time off from your business.