Ingressive Capital, an Africa-focused seed-stage venture capital firm are joining Student Entrepreneurship Week Pan-Africa to locate the brightest African startups for up to $100,000 funding.

Scheduled to take place in Accra, Ghana from July 22-24 at the beautiful Ecobank HQ Accra, Student Entrepreneurship Week Pan-Africa is an initiative of Ghana-based education company, Stars From All Nations (SFAN).

Established to help budding entrepreneurs access actionable, experiential knowledge and tools for building sustainable businesses, Student Entrepreneurship Week also serves as a platform for showcasing undiscovered talents, quality networking, and startup funding.

The inaugural edition was held at British Council Accra with over 400 guests in attendance — bringing together some of the brightest trainers and entrepreneurs from Ghana, Nigeria, Silicon Valley, and the U.K. This team came second in the pitch competition last year, and incidentally got invited by Facebook to participate in Facebook F8 - the only Ghanaian team with such an invitation!

For this Pan-African edition, the event is organized on the theme “unlocking the potentials of young Africans for job creation”, in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As you learn how to create a real company and build a career, you’ll meet the very best mentors, investors, startup entrepreneurs, corporate professionals, diplomats, and community leaders who are ready to help you get started!

Applications are invited from African startups that meet the following criteria:

1. They have launched their startup, have initial traction (i.e. money, users, etc.) and customer validation

2. They have a clear business model

3. They are a high growth technology business targeting a billion dollar market

4. They have a team that is bright, hungry, and know their market better than anyone else

5. They have a competitive advantage over currently available solutions

Ingressive Capital is sector agnostic. This means you can have a company in Fintech, manufacturing tech, ISP, logistics, O&G tech, or health-tech as long as you’re focused on a scalable market. The Fund’s past investments include Paystack and Tizeti, who recently raised significant Series A investments, as well as AwaBike and more.

QI holdings, an AI venture building firm, are also looking to invest in and partner with prototype stage AI startups as part of their venture builder initiative.

Applications are open to all African countries and the deadline is June 30, 2019. To apply, visit studententrepreneurshipweek.com.

For more information about partnerships or speaking opportunity, contact the team via info(at)sfanonline.org.