1000
1000
Startups & SMMEs
200
ESOs
150
Policy Makers
150
Investors
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.
Startup pitches and bootcamp events
27-28 July
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3-4 Sept
12-13 Sept
16-17 May
23-24 May
8-9 Nov
Date TBA
Date TBA
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2-3 October
5-6 October
9-10 October
16-17 October
17-18 October
19-20 October
23-24 October
30-31 October
2-3 November
To apply for a regional pitch competition event, please click on the apply button and fill out a short form.
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.
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.