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Why we launched the 2022 Venture Showcase, VC4A’s flagship fundraising program exclusively for women founders

VC4A and a network of investors seek to take a more proactive role by making the 7th edition of the Venture Showcase Africa a Women founder edition

VC4A’s (VC4A.com) research (https://bit.ly/3M3VnRq) shows that 22% of African ventures (at all stages of development) have a female founder or co-founder. Putting this in perspective, this is pretty similar to the average in New York City at 21% or San Francisco at 16% when looking at equivalent data available via CrunchBase…

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Largest Gathering of Investors Convene at 8th Africa Early Stage Investor Summit, Momentum and Capital Behind an Africa Tech Revolution

The event welcomed more than 2,000 delegates attending from 75 countries around the world

Momentum and capital behind an Africa tech revolution. Investors at the 8th Africa Early Stage Investor Summit celebrated record-breaking deal-making on the continent surpassing $3 billion invested in 2021 into African startups.   On November 3rd, 4th, and 5th, VC4A (vc4a.com) and ABAN (ABANangels.org) hosted the 8th edition of the…

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VC4A & ABAN Announce New Partnership with the UK Government While Gearing up to the Africa Early Stage Investor Summit #AESIS2021

The UK South Africa Tech Hub is sponsoring this event, enabling funders to attend AESIS free of charge: thereby facilitating increased investment to African entrepreneurs

The British High Commission’s UK South Africa Tech Hub, and its partners VC4A (www.VC4A.com) and the Africa Business Angels Network (ABAN), have come together to develop the AESIS Learning Track at the 2021 Africa Early Stage Investor Summit coming up on 4th & 5th November. The Learning Track is a…

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VC4A & ABAN bring together the African Early Stage Investor Community at #AESIS2021

Welcoming investors to join the 8th edition of the #AESIS2021 online and offline 4 - 5 November 2021

VC4A (www.VC4A.com) and ABAN are pleased to announce the 8th edition of the Africa Early Stage Investor Summit (#AESIS2021) which will take place online and offline from 4 - 5 November 2021. The ‘for investors, by investors’ event this year will shed light on new insights and trends taking over…

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Announcing the 16 finalists for the 2021 VC4A Venture Showcase - Seed & Series A Tracks

The founders will showcase their businesses to investors during the Africa Early Stage Investor Summit on 4-5 November 2021

We’re proud to announce the 16 companies selected for the VC4A (https://VC4A.com) Venture Showcase – Seed & Series A tracks. The 2021 portfolio companies have been vetted by VC investors through a rigorous referral and selection process and represent the best Seed and Series A investment opportunities on the continent.…

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VC4A Venture Showcase alumni raise $180 million, applications for the 2021 program now open

Applications are now open, with 8 spots available for each of the two tracks for companies operating in Africa

VC4A Venture Showcase (www.VC4A.com), an exclusive program of choice for Africa-focused early-stage investors and hand-picked startups looking to raise their Seed ($250K-$1,5M) and Series A ($1,5M-$10M) rounds, is back in its 5th edition as part of the annual Africa Early Stage Investor Summit #AESIS2021. Applications are now open, with 8…

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Africa’s Startups More Investible Than Ever

Africa’s entrepreneurs are resilient, quickly digitizing and maturing as digital technology trends further mainstreamed in 2020

Africa’s startups have never been more investible than now. There is a growing number of professional ‘super angels’ involved in record-breaking deals, and private equity investments have doubled since last year. This and more were discussed at the 7th, and fully virtual, Africa Early Stage Investor Summit #AESIS2020 held on…

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VC4A and ABAN announce 7th and virtual edition of its Africa Early Stage Investor Summit (#AESIS2020)

The Summit will take place on 3 & 4 November online

3 & 4 November 2020 ONLINE www.AfricaInvestorSummit.com; Two VC4A Venture Showcases - Seed and Series A - in partnership with AWS Activate; The summit is FREE to attend this year - but for investors only please. VC4A (https://VC4A.com) and ABAN are eager to announce the 7th and virtual edition of…

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Seed stage investing and why it matters for Africa’s startup and innovation community

In Africa, the maturity of a startup raising seed funds is arguably higher than in other continents due to the scarcity of capital

Startup entrepreneurs are working to harness Africa’s potential. Together they represent a critical pipeline of innovation that is driving high growth high impact solutions on the continent. A critical juncture for any startup comes at the seed stage, a financing segment that has experienced significant changes these past months. In…

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VC4A announces 2020 ‘Venture Showcase - Seed’ in partnership with AWS Activate, AfriLabs and ABAN

Via this campaign VC4A will select 10 innovative early-stage startups to showcase their business to the world

VC4A (https://VC4A.com/) is calling for African startups looking to raise between $150K and $1M. In proud collaboration with technical partner AWS Activate, and network partners AfriLabs and ABAN, VC4A will be hosting the exclusive ‘Venture Showcase - Seed (https://bit.ly/2D9XODn)’ in November as part of a virtual gathering of Africa-focused early-stage…