African Fintech Startups have been invited to apply for The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) accelerator programme.
The selected participants will have the opportunity to develop and test their products and solutions in collaboration with senior financial representatives including the DIFC Authority, Accenture, Citi, HSBC, Standard Chartered, Visa, Emirates NBD, and Mashreq. In addition to this, selected participants will also be exposed to mentorship from partnerships such as Facebook and Envestnet.
DIFC Authority CEO Arif Amiri said in a press release: “The FinTech Hive at DIFC will connect innovators in financial services technology with the banks, financial institutions and service providers within our dynamic ecosystem at DIFC.”
Eligibility
- You’re not already an established, public/listed or well-known technology business in financial services or you are an established business in other industries looking to branch out and financial services professionals who want to commercialise their IP.
- You have a minimum alpha or beta product to demonstrate and are prepared to share access to programme partners under NDA (and where reasonable, for no additional cost)
- Your senior team (e.g. Founder/CEO & CTO/Lead Developer) can commit to being based in Dubai throughout the 12-week programme
- You can show that access to senior-level executives in the financial services firms will have a meaningful impact on your growth prospects
Once the startups have completed the 12-week programme, participants will be able to present their solutions to a panel of judges at a demo day to an audience of venture capital fund managers and executives.
You can apply here. Applicants have until 28 May to apply.
