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13-14 MARCH 2024

1000

Startups & SMMEs

200

ESOs

150

Policy Makers

150

Investors

GEC+ Africa Key Objectives

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Support the development of innovative startups in Africa and ensure their scale.

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Create an enabling environment for African startups to create jobs.

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Create market linkages between Corporate and African startups.

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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.

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Lead-Up
Activities

Startup pitches and bootcamp events

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Lagos

27-28 July

Windhoek

Date TBA

Algiers

3-4 Sept

Nairobi

12-13 Sept

Rwanda

8-9 Nov

Accra

Date TBA

Senegal

Date TBA

Cairo

Date TBA

Other African Countries

Date TBA

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Eastern Cape

2-3 October

Kwa-Zulu Natal

5-6 October

Mpumalanga

9-10 October

North West

16-17 October

Western Cape

17-18 October

Limpopo

19-20 October

Northern Cape

23-24 October

Free State

30-31 October

Gauteng

2-3 November

To apply for a regional pitch competition event, please click on the apply button and fill out a short form.

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

GEC+Africa’s pursuit of emerging African entrepreneurs led to Nairobi, Kenya following a two-month-long search in preceding host countries, Nigeria and Algeria and online, in Uganda, Malawi and Namibia.