Accelerate Africa 2026

Accelerate Africa supports Africa’s bold and visionary founders in the earliest stages of building global businesses that solve Africa’s biggest challenges

The team of advisors and visiting partners, come with hands-on operating experience in Africa to help you accelerate your business, plus the scars and stories to prove it. For over a decade, Accelerate Africa has taken on various roles advising, coaching, and mentoring startups, including over 25+ who have been admitted to global accelerators.

The founders we back have some consistent features;

• Passionate about solving a real problem and have the track record or traction to prove it
• Deep understanding of their customers and consider it their life’s work to serve them
• Lived experience of the problem, driving them to build a business that seems impossible until it’s done