AFRISE Challenge

Concordia University and Hindsight Ventures have partnered for this program, with a central theme focusing on how youth entrepreneurs can help “African” economies to “Rise”.

The program is aimed at 18 - 35 year old African youth. We are looking for applications from Nigeria, Uganda, Morocco, Kenya, Rwanda, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire & Senegal. AFRISE seeks to identify young innovators and entrepreneurs who have a scalable idea to solve a mass challenge.

We are looking for enterprising youth (as individuals or teams) who are solving for, but not limited to below:

• Financial Services
• Healthcare
• Agriculture
• Energy / Utility
• Education
• Environment
• Telecommunications
• Arts & Creativity

Program Takeaways

• Accelerator Program: 30 high-potential founders will be selected for a mentorship and leadership development accelerator, that will be delivered by successful founders, industry leaders, domain experts and investors; alongside leaders from Concordia University and Hindsight Ventures network.
• International Demo Day: The Accelerator Program will culminate with an International Demo Day, wherein the Top-15 Entrepreneurs present at a Virtual Demo Day to a group of early stage venture investors and Entrepreneurship Support Organizations for accessing funding support (grant + equity based funding)
• Technology Credits and other Support: Each startup gets in excess of $600,000 in technology credits from partners such as AWS, Zoho, IBM, Microsoft, Canva, DigitalOcean, FreshWorks and more.