AfricArena Podcast with Patrick Craig

About AfricArena Podcast with Patrick Craig

Welcome to the African Innovation Podcast, the African tech and innovation audio show brought to you by AfricArena. For those who don't know, AfricArena is a pan-African ecosystem accelerator whose mission is to help African startups access bigger markets and raise more capital. Each year during our tour, we scour the major capitals of the continent in search of the most game changing startups in each region which we then bring to our annual summit in Cape Town in Nov of that year. In each episode we chat to the the most interesting thought leaders, founders, investors and corporate change makers of our time, about their work, impact and ideas. We unpack their many insights around innovation, growth, challenges, mindset and investment because our mission is to accelerate the rate at which our ecosystems are growing throughout this amazing continent.

Publisher

AfricArena, X Venture Lab

Category

business · business · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Aug 2019

Latest episode

1 Nov 2022

Latest episodes

56 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Nov 2022

   #56 - Grand Summit Spotlight - What to expect from this year's summit!

   The Grand Summit Spotlight: Every year, AfricArena invites the key tech investors in Africa to connect and workshop around their main challenges. More than 100 investors, from Africa, Europe and Asia decent upon Cape Town to attend our annual Grand Summit.

 Since its inception in 2017, AfricArena has been a platform dedicated to supporting the creation of market access and investment opportunities for its ever-increasing community of founders, angels, corporates, and VC investors. Designed with a digital approach in mind, AfricArena consists of a series of investment deal flow events and interventions and an open-source platform for all stakeholders, all based on principles of open innovation and entrepreneurship. The AfricArena brand has rapidly gained enormous credibility in the tech startup ecosystem with alumni startups having raised over $450million in the past 5 years. This year, AfricArena will again host its sixth annual Grand Summit in Cape Town from the 8th - 9th of November 2022. The Grand Summit will be preceded by 2 events, the Founders Bootcamp and the VC Unconference Weekend. The AfricArena Summit events are broken into 3 segments as follows: Investor Unconference, Founders BootCamp, and the main Summit Event. The summits provide open innovation challenges, research, and deal-flow services to help accelerate the work of founders, investors, and corporates, At AfricArena, we strongly believe in the power of providing a platform that fosters bright and forward-thinking minds to network, get inspired and co-build a stronger tech startup investment ecosystem for Africa. The Unconference is an annual event that takes place in Cape Town, South Africa the two days before the Summit. It brings together local and international investors with the aim to enhance the way that investing is done in the continent. This year it will be held from the 5th - to 6th of November Our Startup Bootcamp is a  private workshop dedicated to selected startups from across the Countries will be pitching at the AfricArena Summit. It aims to create strong connections, peer-to-peer learning between the entrepreneurs, training and equipping startups with the necessary tools and knowledge to prepare them to showcase and effectively deliver high-quality, concise and engaging pitches to the right audience. In partnership with incubators, accelerators, investors and our alumni community, we are able to spot promising companies tacking some of the biggest challenges of the continent. Taking part in AfricArena is free for the few selected startups and most of them manage to secure new partnerships, funding or business contracts through the meetings and exposure they receive during the Summit. AfricArena presents an opportunity to explore tomorrow’s trends today by showcasing some of Africa’s most innovative startups and connecting them with investors, corporates and enablers to accelerate their growth. We strongly believe in the power of providing a platform that fosters bright and forward-thinking minds to network, get inspired and co-build a stronger tech startup investment ecosystem for Africa.

2. 

   14 Aug 2022

   Ep #55 - Ecosystem Spotlight - FMO Entrepreneurial Development Bank Ventures Program

   This episode is a showcase episode on one of our ecosystem partners FMO, the dutch entrepreneurial development bank about their Ventures Program - a EUR 200 million investment program supported by contributions from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and a guarantee from the European Union with a 4-year investment period. We caught up with Robert Haynie and Marike Roestenberg at our Dakar Summit to see what brought them to Senegal and what they're up to.

3. 

   19 Jul 2022

   Ep #54 - Why you should not underrate the Senegalese tech ecosystem

   Hello beautiful people, welcome to Season 6 of the AfricArena Podcast, and what an epic journey its been. To kick off this season, I’m going to take us back to Dakar, to the beautiful conference space at hotel Terrou bi where we hosted our latest West African Summit. Throughout the conference I chatted various stakeholders in our ecosystem to gather their insight into on what’s happening on the ground in this exciting frontier tech ecosystem, of Dakar. Massive thanks to our partner's DER, La Délégation Générale à l'Entreprenariat Rapide, International Trade Centre, Amazon Web Services, and our greater partner network for making this summit happen. If it wasn’t for all of you, we wouldn’t be sharing this all with you today. In this episode we’re going to unpack what it is that makes the West African ecosystem so exciting and specifically what is happening on the ground in Dakar. I chatted to Tidjane Deme, Mareme Dieng, Zachariah George, Mohamed Karar and Hangwi Muambadzi. We’re going to deep dive into what made them come to Dakar, why they’re excited about it. If you’re curious about this region, perhaps this episode will give you some further insight into why it’s worth taking seriously. So let’s get stuck in shall we.

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