Africa Startups – TECH POINT MAGAZINE https://techpointmag.com -Beyond Technology- Tue, 07 Jan 2020 15:23:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://techpointmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/cropped-tech-point-logo@2x-3-32x32.png Africa Startups – TECH POINT MAGAZINE https://techpointmag.com 32 32 141627558 What to expect at the 2020 Africa Startup Summit in Kigali https://techpointmag.com/africa-startup-summit-expectations/ Tue, 07 Jan 2020 15:19:06 +0000 http://techpointmag.com/?p=9204 The annual Africa Startup Summit is back and the capital of Rwanda__Kigali will be hosting the 2020 round of this startups meet investors event. In partnership with Disrupt Africa, this year’s Africa Startup Summit will boost the ecosystem with new viable players

The event attracts entrepreneurs, developers, investors, corporates, policymakers, hubs and Coworking spaces looking for ways to maximize their presence in the innovation and startup sphere.

Similar to other major startup events, the 2020 Africa Startup Summit will hold live Pitch sessions for founders to meet potential investors in a bid to win funding for their startup projects/Innovations.

In fact, the application portal is currently open to all founders who can apply to join the Pitch Live sessions. With over 600 delegates expected to turn up for the 3-day event, it’s agenda features conference sessions, workshops and networking events shaped down to these 8 categories

The Africa Startup Summit Agenda

  • Investing In Africa
  • Start-Up Showcase
  • Sustainable Development Goals
  • Health Tech
  • Fintech
  • Agri Tech
  • MCommerce

The 3-day Summit will take place from February 4th-6th in Kigali Rwanda and will be feature two other Summits hosted during the same event timeline and these include:

The Africa Future Summit
The Africa Money & BlockChain Summit

At the moment, we have not received news of any Ugandan startups to feature at the event, but with the registration window currently open, you can visit the Africa Tech Summit website to fill out an application form to be apart of the event.

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