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No. 4 Energy Ln, Century City, Cape Town, 7446, South Africa
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5 years, 9 months agoBridging and accelerating the African tech ecosystem.
Cape Town-based AfricArena is the highest impact tech ecosystem accelerator & deal flow platform in Africa. Going into its seventh year, AfricArena has operated in three key spheres that underpin Africa’s economic landscape: tech startups, corporates, and investors (i.e. angel investors, VCs, corporate VCs, and other institutional investors).
Through Open Innovation Challenges, in partnership with corporations, AfricArena has brought together these 3 spheres, to foster co-investment and collaboration that can move the economies and people of the continent forward. The 2024 AfricArena Grand Summit, precedes by regional and/or global Summits which this year include Johannesburg, Berlin, Paris, London, Tunisia, Morocco, Cairo, West Africa and Nairobi then leading up to Cape Town in December 2024. We aim to create links and opportunities between startups, investors, established companies and connecting the African continent to the rest of the world.
AfricArena stands as a bridge between the international and African tech innovation ecosystems, visit our website.
Startup, Tech, Event Management, Ecommerce, TechConference, Innovation, Disruptive, Open Innovation Challenge, Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Tech Ecosystem
AfricArena is an African tech accelerator that runs Corporate Open Innovation challenges throughout the African continent. While executing our open innovation we aim to foster the African tech environment by producing a range of physical events that connect entrepreneurs, investors and corporates.
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