VC4A calling on African startups to Showcase and win at the 2018 Africa Early Stage Investor Summit
Venture Capital for Africa (VC4A) is calling for disruptive African startups looking to raise between $250K and $5M to showcase their ideas at Africa Early Stage Investor Summit to be held in November 11-12 in Cape Town.
The summit will bring together the leading angel networks, VC funds, impact investors, accelerators, corporate venture divisions, industry associations, and public sector agencies. The showcase sets the stage for deal making with Africa’s leading entrepreneurs and investors coming together to scale up the best companies.
Selected entrepreneurs will get all expenses paid trip to Cape Town on Nov 9-16 to deliver their pitch on the main stage of the Summit and engage with interested investors during the deep-dive sessions. The program offers two days of networking opportunities at the Summit, including the Speaker Cocktail and Industry Leaders Dinner, as well as opportunities to attend and pitch at partner events AfricaCom and AfricArena.
The 2017 edition welcomed over 300 investors from prominent African angel networks and VC funds, such as Singularity Investments, Accion, Knife Capital, Ventures Platform, TLCom Capital, Blue Haven, 4Di Capital, Lagos Angel Network, SABAN, AngelHub Ventures, Teranga Capital, Outlierz, Algebra Ventures, Grey Elephant Ventures, Ringier, GSMA, Orange Digital Ventures.
The 2017 event showcased 20 scale-ups as part of the Africa Early Stage Investor Summit, resulting in a number of Series A deals totaling over $12M. Building on this success, the ‘VC4A Venture Showcase – Series A’ positions deal ready companies as a central component of the annual meeting of Africa investors.
VC4A works closely with the Africa investment community to refer candidates to the showcase, involving investors in both the screening and selections process. Participating investors work with the selected companies to prepare their participation in the showcase, and to ensure the companies are representative of the best investment opportunities coming up from across the continent.
Interested entrepreneurs are invited to apply HERE before August 20th.
