1000
Startups & SMMEs
200
ESOs
150
Policy Makers
150
Investors
GEC+ Africa Key Objectives
Support the development of innovative startups in Africa and ensure their scale.
Create an enabling environment for African startups to create jobs.
Create market linkages between Corporate and African startups.
Support the development of credible global investor pipeline that will invest in African startups.
Establish a strong GEN in each African country thereby building and strengthening GEN Africa.
Lead-Up
Activities
Startup pitches and bootcamp events
Dakar
16-17 May
Abidjan
23-24 May
Algiers
20-21 June
Cairo
27-28 June
Gaborone
13-14 July
Accra
19-20 July
Lagos
25-26 July
Nairobi
1-2 August
Windhoek
8-9 August
Eastern Cape
2-3 October
Kwa-Zulu Natal
5-6 October
Mpumalanga
9-10 October
North West
16-17 October
Limpopo
19-20 October
Northern Cape
23-24 October
Free State
30-31 October
Gauteng
2-3 November
Western Cape
7-8 November
About
GEC+
The Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC+ Africa), initiated by the Global Entrepreneurship Network in 2017, is a gathering of entrepreneurs and leaders from more than 50 African nations committed to advancing entrepreneurial activity throughout their own countries in Africa. GEC+ Africa will include other international thought leaders and practitioners globally who have become a part of GEN’s global movement that advances entrepreneurship as a means of building economies and expanding human welfare.
News & Updates
2023 has a great outlook for the African entrepreneurship ecosystem landscape as the continent has received great attention all over the world since the pandemic. According to Partech, it is estimated that up to $2billion of funding in form of equity and debt went into African tech startups in 2019.
