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The MEST Africa Challenge (MAC) is a leading Pan-African pitch competition designed for early-stage technology startups ready to scale. The MEST Africa Challenge 2025 is led by MEST Africa and powered by Absa. MAC offers a powerful platform to access equity funding, build strategic networks, and gain global visibility.

PearX is a hands-on, small-batch, pre-seed 12-week accelerator for companies whether at the idea stage or already demonstrating traction.

BREAKTHROUGH Program, sponsored by JPMorgan Chase & Co, provides founders with a deeper understanding of their customers, startup funding, growth marketing strategies, and networking opportunities to scale their ventures. Each company accepted into the program will receive a $5,000 grant

The Social Innovation Lab (SIL) accelerates leaders and ventures building innovative, sustainable, and scalable solutions that work towards a healthy and prosperous world. Open to any applicant from the greater Baltimore area, we aim to see mission-driven ventures from both the Johns Hopkins and the surrounding communities develop into thriving ventures with measurable impacts.

If you are thinking about starting a business or have recently launched one in Aberdeenshire there is grant funding available to start up businesses in Aberdeenshire

The African Arise Innovation Challenge (AAIC), a pan-African hackathon uniting innovators from Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, Ghana, Egypt, The Gambia, and South Africa.

The MTN Cloud Accelerator is a 12-week program designed to help African startups grow faster by leveraging MTN’s products, platforms, and partners. Whether you’re scaling digital payments, transforming healthcare, or reimagining agriculture.

RevUp Women by AfriLabs empowers early-stage women-led African startups and SMEs to overcome unique challenges that hinder their growth and success. AfriLabs […]

The Joint Innovation Facility (JIF) is a new Africa-Europe initiative designed to accelerate innovation, foster meaningful collaboration across ecosystems on the African continent and cross-continental with Europe to scale up transformative solutions that address shared challenges—particularly those related to the digital transformation and the green transition.

UK registered micro and small businesses can apply for a share of up to £10 million to develop affordable, adoptable and investable innovations in the five critical technologies. Project’s total costs and grant funding request must be between £25,000 and £50,000. The aim of this competition is to provide a package of targeted support to enable ambitious UK registered micro and small businesses to develop highly innovative ideas that have a clear route to commercialisation and business growth across one or more of the five critical technologies. Your project must focus on one or more of the five critical technologies: artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors advanced connectivity technologies quantum technologies engineering biology

The startup accelerator targets digital ventures with innovative technologies at the core of their business: the internet of things, blockchain, big data, […]