About Startup.Africa

Startup.Africa is a reference library for African founders on how to raise money. It collects guides, analysis and a deal archive on startup funding, venture capital and policy, with South Africa first.

What is here

• Fundraising Guides: seed, Series A and B, valuation, convertible loans, SAFEs, cap tables, ESOPs and exits.
• Venture Capital & Investors: how African VCs decide and what they look for in founders.
• Country & Ecosystem Guides: funding, sectors and startup laws in Nigeria, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Tunisia, Cabo Verde and South Africa.
• Start & Scale: building a tech startup in Africa and growing it across markets.
• Accelerators & Programmes: incubators and accelerators worth knowing, plus an archive of past calls.
• Analysis: arguments about African startup funding.
• Deal Archive and a glossary of plain-English definitions.

Who it is for

Founders who are preparing to raise, and the investors, funders and ecosystem builders who work with them.

How to read it

Everything is dated. Guides explain how things work, but figures and laws change, so check the date and the original source. Items in the archive are marked as archive: a call for applications that was open when we wrote it has almost certainly closed since.

What we commit to

• Opinion is labelled as opinion.
• If we get something wrong, tell us and we will correct it and say so on the page.

New work

We do not publish on a fixed schedule. If you would like an email when we publish something new, sign up here. We will not spam you.

Get in touch

Corrections, tips or questions: info@startup.africa.