Female entrepreneurs seeking opportunities to grow and scale their businesses can now apply for the Tech By Her Accelerator.
The program offers training, ecosystem support, resources, a dedicated business coach, and access to industry leaders. There will also be room for the entrepreneurs to network and connect with other female founders in the tech ecosystem, share learnings, and experiences, and expand their Pan-African networks.
The Tech By Her Accelerator is supporting burgeoning female-led tech ventures in becoming globally competitive and sustainable brands. It is powered by MEST with support from the Tech Entrepreneurship Initiative, ‘Make-IT in Africa’, (implemented by Deutsche für Gesellschaft Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.
The purpose of the Tech By Her Accelerator program is to develop a strong Pan African female entrepreneurship community by mentoring female founders and building an alumni network of successful Tech By Her Accelerator participants who become ambassadors for other upcoming founders.
Benefits:
- Holistic Coaching and Training
- Access to industry leaders and experts from across the continent
- Supportive Community of leading female entrepreneurs
- Invitation to the alumni network of successful female entrepreneurs
- An expansive network of tech experts
- 2 Intensive Boot Camps in Accra, Ghana, all expenses paid
- 3 months of virtual mentoring and coaching.
- Media publicity and visibility through our social media pages, websites and partner media.
Eligibility criteria:
The Tech By Her Accelerator will be selecting ten (10) of the best and most impactful female entrepreneurs in Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya. Outside of drive, ambition, and a genuine interest in the growth of their business, they should also:
- Be founders/co-founders of their organisation, female and available to participate fully in all aspects of the program.
- Be early-stage startups and have achieved commercialisation and monetisation phase.
- Be technology-based, or have technology as the core enabler of the business.
- Have begun operations at least one (1) year before applying for this program and have a live product or service on the market.
- Be African nationals or residents and have registered the business in one of the three operational countries (Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya).
- Have evidence of revenue and a clearly demonstrated potential to scale.
- Be business models with social impact, i.e. with solutions to problems as described in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (locally and/or globally)
- Be willing to organize at least one (1) community event in your operational country with support from the local MEST office.
- Be willing, as founders, to be ambassadors of the program and of tech entrepreneurship, encouraging and motivating other females in the entrepreneurial space.
Interested and qualified entrepreneurs can click here to apply
