The Tech African Women programme has officially launched in the hopes of providing support and acceleration to women-owned African tech startups, taking their businesses from the idea stage into real-world operations.
The programme’s objective is to “empower” female founders to leverage their skills in order to build strong tech startups from scratch, accelerate the transformation of project ideas into validated business models and to develop alliances between different African ecosystems. Entrants will also have the opportunity to work closely with top experts in Marketing and Finance in addition to the participation in tailored webinars provided by international trainers.First, a series of intensive 3-day training bootcamps & pitching competitions to be held in Tunisia, Senegal, Ethiopia & Tanzania in partnership with local ecosystem players. The winning team of each bootcamp will win a cash prize of $2000.
A final ceremony is to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at the ECA Conference Center where 8 finalist startups will be invited to pitch to win the final prize of the program .