Find funding for your project in Africa

University of Rwanda Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program 2026/2027 for young Africans (Fully Funded)

Fully funded scholarships at the University of Rwanda, under the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program, for young Africans.

• All sectors

5,000 USD

IWMF Fault Lines Reporting Fund 2026 (up to $10,000)

Reporting grant from the International Women's Media Foundation, up to 10,000 dollars, for in-depth investigations.

• All sectors

up to 10,000 USD

AfDB AgriPitch Competition

African Development Bank

AgriPitch is the African Development Bank's agribusiness competition, run under its ENABLE Youth programme. It targets young agricultural businesses across the continent, from production and processing to logistics and farmer services.

• Agriculture

up to 140,000 USD

Anzisha Prize

African Leadership Academy

The Anzisha Prize holds a distinct place in Africa's funding landscape: it is aimed at very young entrepreneurs, aged 15 to 22, an age bracket almost no other programme reaches.

• All sectors

up to 25,000 USD

Africa's Business Heroes

Jack Ma Foundation

Africa's Business Heroes is one of the best-funded entrepreneurship competitions on the continent. The Jack Ma Foundation shares $1.5 million each year among ten finalists, with the winner receiving up to $300,000, with no equity taken.

• All sectors

up to 300,000 USD

GSMA Innovation Fund

GSMA

The GSMA Innovation Fund, run by the global association of mobile operators, finances businesses using mobile technology to address a development challenge: energy access, digital agriculture, financial services, climate adaptation, humanitarian response.

• Digital
• Finance and payments
• Health

up to 250,000 GBP

She Leads Africa Accelerator

She Leads Africa

She Leads Africa is aimed exclusively at African women entrepreneurs, through a mix of competitions, acceleration programmes and training content.

• All sectors

50,000 USD

Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme

Tony Elumelu Foundation

The Tony Elumelu Foundation programme is the continent's largest private entrepreneurship scheme by number of beneficiaries: around 3,200 entrepreneurs selected each year, across all 54 African countries.

• All sectors

5,000 USD

AfricArena Summits

AfricArena

AfricArena is not funding but a door. The circuit runs several regional summits through the year before a Grand Summit in December in Cape Town, each bringing together investment funds, corporates and startups looking to raise.

• Digital

Variable amount

Choose Africa

AFD / Proparco

Choose Africa is the initiative of the French Development Agency and its subsidiary Proparco dedicated to financing African startups and small and medium businesses. It works not as a competition but as a financing line, deployed through loans, guarantees and equity stakes.

• All sectors

up to 5,000,000 EUR

Digital Africa: Fuzé Fund

Digital Africa

The Fuzé Fund is Digital Africa's early-stage financing vehicle, backed by the French Development Agency. It targets African digital startups at the stage where conventional funds do not yet come: after the prototype, before Series A.

• Digital
• Finance and payments

up to 300,000 EUR

Founders Factory Africa

Founders Factory Africa

Founders Factory Africa combines two rarely paired trades: an accelerator that invests in existing startups, and a venture studio that builds companies from scratch with selected founders.

• Finance and payments
• Health
• Agriculture

Variable amount