Tony Elumelu Foundation opens functions for 2025 Entrepreneurship Programmes
Lagos: Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Africa’s main champion of entrepreneurship, has opened functions for its 2025 Entrepreneurship Programmes.
Aspiring and present entrepreneurs from throughout Africa are invited to use for an opportunity to obtain world-class coaching, knowledgeable mentoring, and non-refundable seed capital funding to scale their companies.
Programmes Open for Application:
1. Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) Entrepreneurship Programme: the flagship TEF Entrepreneurship Programme is open to all entrepreneurs throughout Africa with revolutionary enterprise concepts or present companies not older than 5 years. This 12 months, there’s a particular emphasis on companies leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and inexperienced initiatives. Applicants have to be no less than 18 years outdated.
2. IYBA-WE4A Entrepreneurship Programme: Launched by the Tony Elumelu Foundation in partnership with the European Union (EU) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), IYBA-WE4A stands for Investing in Young Businesses in Africa – Women Entrepreneurship for Africa and is solely for girls entrepreneurs with inexperienced enterprise concepts or present inexperienced companies in Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Cameroon, Kenya, Mozambique, Malawi, and Togo. Applicants have to be no less than 18 years outdated, with companies not exceeding 5 years in operation.
3. Aguka Ideation Programme: The Aguka Ideation Entrepreneurship Programme is a partnership with the Tony Elumelu Foundation, UNDP Rwanda and the Rwandan Ministry of Youths and Arts to assist younger Rwandan entrepreneurs between 18 -30 with enterprise concepts with a seed capital of $3000, with the intention of nurturing and creating revolutionary ideas into viable enterprises.
Application Details:
• Platform: Applications are to be submitted by means of TEF’s proprietary digital hub, TEFConnect.
• Application Period: January 1, 2025 – March 1, 2025. Applicants are inspired to finish and submit their functions nicely forward of the deadline.
• Eligibility: Open to African entrepreneurs with scalable enterprise concepts or present companies not older than 5 years. Applicants have to be no less than 18 years outdated.
To study extra concerning the Tony Elumelu Foundation’s transformative work and the success of our African entrepreneurs. Explore our:
• Impact Report, which highlights the Tony Elumelu Foundation’s achievements and contributions to Africa’s financial development.
• African Entrepreneurs’ Success Stories, showcasing the inspiring journeys of Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurs.
• Annual Reports, providing insights into the Tony Elumelu Foundation’s methods and outcomes.
The Tony Elumelu Foundation is the main philanthropy empowering a brand new technology of African entrepreneurs, driving poverty eradication, catalysing job creation throughout all 54 African nations, and rising ladies financial empowerment.
Founded in 2010, the Tony Elumelu Foundation is dedicated to empowering African entrepreneurs as a catalyst for the continent’s financial transformation.
Since the launch of the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme in 2015, the Foundation has supplied as much as 2.5 million younger Africans with entry to coaching on its digital hub, TEFConnect, and disbursed over USD$100 million in direct funding to over 21,000 African men and women, who’ve collectively created over 800,000 direct and oblique jobs, and generated over USD$4.2 billion in income.
The Foundation’s mission is rooted in Africapitalism, which positions the personal sector, and most significantly entrepreneurs, because the catalyst for the social and financial improvement of the African continent.
For More Information:
• FAQs: Click right here for detailed solutions to incessantly requested questions can be found on the TEF web site.
• Contact: For extra info, please contact moyo.awotile@tonyelumelufoundation.org
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