AWS FinTech Africa Accelerator
Join the online AWS FinTech Africa Accelerator powered by AWS Startup Loft Accelerator to take part in an equity-free program focused on supporting early stage startups with technology, product development, go-to-market advice and getting you funding ready.
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Meet the experts
Fola Olatunji-David
Early Stage Startup Business Development, AWS Startup Loft Accelerator
Dona Haj
VCs & A&I Manager, AWS Startup Loft Accelerator
Áine Mulloy
Business Development Manager, AWS Startup Loft Accelerator
Gali Niv
Program Manager, AWS Startup Loft Accelerator
Ewa Chronowska
CEO, Vestbee & Partner, Next Road Ventures
Barbara Iyayi
CEO & Founding Partner, Unicorn Growth Capital
Agnes Aistleitner Kisuule
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, First Circle Capital
Samakab Hashi
Partner, Lateral Frontiers
Clive Butkow
CEO, Kalon Venture Partners
Khaled Ismail
Chairman, HIMangel
Gbite Oduneye
Founder & General Partner, ODBA
Harry Apostoleris
Co-Founder, UW Ventures
Dhekra Khelifi
Partner, 216 Capital Ventures
Mobalaji Adeoye
Managing Partner, Consonance
Tayo Oviosu
Founder & CEO, Paga
Adedeji Olowe
FinTech Expert, Entrepreneur & Investor
Adrian Ephraim
Editor in Chief, TechCabal
David Fogel
Co-Founder, Alma Angels
Daniela Raffel
Vice President, Dawn Capital
Alex Wilson
Principal, White Star Capital
Romain Grimal
Investment Manager, Blackfin Capital Partners
Marcin Laczynski
Partner, Next Road Ventures
Sofien V. Sidhoum
Partner, Afrolynk
Marton Medveczky
Investment Director, Flashpoint VC
Ada Vaughan
Vice President & Global Partnerships, Conduit
Mathieu Desvé
Senior Solutions Architect, AWS Startup Loft Accelerator
Lorenzo Boccaccia
Solutions Architect, AWS Startup Loft Accelerator
Participation Benefits
Up To $25K* in AWS Activate Credits
Up to $25K to spend on AWS services, a free one-year AWS Business Support subscription for up to $5K and more!
*AWS Activate Program rules must apply
Technology Fast-Track
Tech resources, guidance and a community of peers. From technical deep dives to round tables on day-to-day CTO challenges
Funding Preparation
Become funding-ready with hands-on workshops and concrete use cases and validate your strategy, pitch deck and storytelling
Alumni Community
The community brings together all program members, including alumni founders for both CEOs and CTOs
Partner Offers & Special Discounts
Access to credits, valuable discounts & offers from AWS Partners for accepted teams
Cloud Support
1:1 meetings with AWS Solution Architects and access to product, regulatory & compliance, security specialists
Business Boost
1:many sessions, workshops and 1:1 mentor meetings with subject-matter experts and advisors
Marketing & PR
Media exposure and coverage for selected teams
Global Network
Benefit from the extensive AWS network of industry leaders, technology experts, serial entrepreneurs, investors, startup organizations and advisors
Fundraising Support
Fundraising tools & support along with access to wide network of global leading VC funds
Up To 90% Off
Up to 90% off on HubSpot for eligible startup teams
€15.000 Credits
Stripe Credits: €15.000 for all applicants!
$3000 Credits
For annual Business Plan for up to 25 users with access to unlimited video recordings & more features for all teams!
$50.000 Credits
$50.000 on the Mixpanel Growth Plan for all applicants!
6 months for free
6 months of free Notion towards a Plus Plan, including unlimited AI for all applicants!
6 Months For Free
Get 6 months free of Zendesk Suite & Sales CRM as well as 15% off for first annual subscription!
Timeline
28th Apr, 2023
Applications Close
18th May, 2023
Cohort Announcement
5th Jun, 2023
Cohort Start date
1st Aug - 1st Sep, 2023
Holiday break
18th Sep, 2023
Cohort end date
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
The AWS FinTech Africa Accelerator is a virtual, equity-free 10-week program that leverages the best of Amazon's infrastructure and partner network to support pre-seed and seed stage FinTech startups developing their projects in Africa and beyond in the following categories:
Open & Embedded Finance
Big Data & AIML
Blockchain & Decentralised Finance
FinTech-as-a-service
Financial inclusion & Sustainability
Other
Partners
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Testimonials
“With an increasingly competitive startup market, you need to be able to define and differentiate your business at speed. This can be taxing on the soul. In addition to the access to expertise, AWS delivered a level of emotional support which has been invaluable to our success.”
“The infrastructure, support and training we've had access to from AWS has been fundamental to our startup's success. It provided us with the confidence we needed to launch our business quickly.”
“Lots of accelerators are all about fundraising but we didn't need that. We're a highly technical team, but it is very rare to get an incubator with that focus - our tech guys are often left on their own.”
“I liked that you could just go in and select what you wanted. I really liked the founders' meetup. It was useful to hear from, and talk to, my peers. There was also great content on fund-raising strategies and product marketing. We also had one-on-one sessions with architects and AWS experts which were really useful. The introduction to AI services helped us to work out our pipeline and how we can increase its use in the future.”
