Home Call for Applications Tech African Women Program 2022 for female-led tech Startup (Fully Funded trip to Rwanda)

Tech African Women Program 2022 for female-led tech Startup (Fully Funded trip to Rwanda)

by OFA

Application Deadline: August 17, 2022

Tech African Women: is a program led by BetaCube and supported by UNECA dedicated to building a strong female-led tech Startup pipeline and community in Africa. it will run from August to December 2022 and is composed of 3 main phases:

Objectives

  • Empower female founders to leverage their skills to build strong tech startups from scratch
  • Accelerate the transformation of project ideas and prototypes into validated business models, ready for market & investment
  • Build communities and alliances to aggregate opportunities for women entrepreneurs and maximize impact.

Eligibility Requirements

  • All participants must be female between 18 and 35 years old
  • To have an idea of a tech startup that is addressing at least one of the SDGs
  • To be a national of one of the targeted countries: Tunisia, Tanzania, Senegal & Ethiopia.
  • To be available and committed to attending all the bootcamp sessions physically in addition to the online incubation phase.
  • To be able to communicate fluently in French or English.

Benefits

BootCamp

  • An invitation to participate in a 3-day intensive training bootcamp in your country
  • A cash grant of 2k usd for the winning team per country
  • A fully funded trip to Rwanda for 2 winning projects per country to pitch in the final ceremony

Incubation Program

  • Access to a pool of tech & design experts to develop your MVP
  • Personal Support from a startup coach
  • Customized one to one coaching sessions with top experts in Marketing & Finance
  • Intercultural journey of learning from entrepreneurs from Tunisia, Tanzania, Ethiopia & Senegal
  • A cash grant of 7k usd for the best startup at the end of the program

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Tech African Women Program 2022

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