techbuild.africa, the leading innovative tech media platform has announced a scholarship opportunity for the Founder Institute Africa Cohorts.

With this special offer, anyone with a pre-seed startup or an idea can apply to the Founder Institute for free.

The best applicants who get accepted will receive techbuild.africa’s fellowship to participate for free at any of Founder Institute accelerators across the Region.

Criteria for qualification

To qualify for the techbuild.africa Fellowship:

You must register here and be a very active participant in the Tech Build Africa community
You must also apply here and go through the application process.
Must follow techbuild.africa and Founder Institute on all social media platforms

techbuild.africa will make the selection on who to award the fellowship.

The Founder Institute helps tech or tech-enabled businesses at the pre-seed stage, including both solo-founders and teams.

This includes established businesses that are pre-funding and traction, MVP and prototype-stage projects, and even part-time founders with just ideas.

Benefits of participation

The most active participant in the techbuild.africa community stands the chance of:

Receiving $399 value scholarship
Mentoring from top startup experts
Networking opportunities
And many more

Build the Future with Founder Institute and techbuild.africa

The Founder Institute helps entrepreneurs in getting traction and funding with a support network of startup experts that are invested in participants’ success, and through a structured business-building process that has helped its alumni raise over $950M.

Through the combined benefits of both platforms, the collaboration will create an unparalleled global support network for early-stage founders to impact the present and influence the future through:

Comprehensive education and structured support programs from the idea stage to the funding/ growth stage
Over $3M in Partner Deals and Resources

Note that after completing the quick application, you will be invited to take Founder Institute Predictive Admissions Assessment, which is the main criteria for evaluating applicants.

About techbuild.africa

techbuild.africa is a bold and innovative media platform dedicated to providing information on startups, funding & events across the continent that would amplify the work young Africans are doing daily to build products and solutions that can transform our future.

About Founder Institute

The Founder Institute is the world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator. Since 2009, we have helped over 4,500 entrepreneurs get the focus and support needed to build a business that matters.

Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 90 countries, the Founder Institute’s mission is to empower communities of talented and motivated people to build impactful technology companies worldwide.

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