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Supporting startups creating value for Africa


Optimise       |       Fund    |       Scale   

Problem Statement: Globally startups receive $300billion+ per year in funding with Africa getting less that 1% of the total funding, let's join hands to change that.

Africa is the next growth story leveraging our demographic dividend. Check our Funding Tracker 'Hall of Fame' for startup deals shaping our ecosystem.



1. Optimise


We optimise startups through advisory boards and love money


2. Fund


We provide early-stage startup funding from $10 000 to $100 000


3. Scale


We help our startups scale across regional and global marketplaces


Love Money | Pre-Seed


We invest in early-stage tech related startups with a working prototype


Reimagine your minicorn journey


We provide early-stage momentum to your startup with our Love Money and Pre-Seed funding for founders across Africa, working hand in hand with angel investors and venture capital firms across the continent. This is what an average path to success for your startup looks like, although it will be a tough, we will walk with you. Make use of our funding tracker, to understand pathways for other successful startups across the continent.



What we look for in Outliers


You must be a tech startup modelled for regional or global success to submit your Pitch Deck, below are some of the key aspects we review in your startup. Our early-stage board advisory and funding from our angel investors will help you perfect some of the key issues to stand out from the crowd for regional or global success! To get insights on our thought process when we review your pitch deck, simply download our seed stage Airbnb Pitch Deck review (click to download).

Impact! Foundation for a strong startup ecosystem is to develop talent early on and one way we are doing this, is by ensuring that 1 in every 100 university students in Africa is able to draft a world-class pitch deck. If you are a final year university student you can participate by simply looking for another team member 'student from a different degree class i.e if you are studying commerce find someone studying sciences or vice versa' to draft a pitch deck [in english] for any startup listed on our Funding Tracker and send it to us through Submit Pitch Deck 'simply select student when uploading,' we will give you a cerficate of competence if you score 50%+ on your pitch deck review and if you score 80%+, we will give you some gifts i.e pocket money for your graduation, books or tech gadgets depening on your score - thanks to our sponsor Kupfuma. Simply follow the instructions to participate as a final year university student, anytime and anywhere in Africa.

If you are a startup founder, the icons below are a guide to help you develop a pitch deck for your startup. Click on each icon to flip it and view more details.




Design




Vision




Problem




Solution




Product




Why Now




Market Size




Competition




Go To Market




Business Model




Traction




Funds & Pricing




RoadMap




Team




Appendix



A startup is an early-stage business that is designed to bring efficiency to your market and grow exponentially leveraging technology to be at the forefront of market changes, right on time but ahead of the current competition in your market. If your business doesn’t fit out startup definition, you can apply for high growth SME funding through the Kupfuma platform. In simple terms startups create value whilst SMEs extract value.



Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not! Love Money



For startups the first source of funding is 'love money' from family, friends and fools based on trust and relationship built over time. In developed markets this isn't much of an issue as average GDP per capita is more than $50 000 hence most families and friends can easily scrape together their savings to give founders their first funding 'love money’ at generous terms. However, this is a different story in emerging markets mainly in Africa were average GDP per capita is a paltry $2 000 hence most families and friends are not able to fund talented founders within our ecosystem and this is gap we are trying to fill as AfricaAIN by providing advisory and love money to talented founders who are creating value for Africa's growing population needs and wants. We will support you during the period when you undertake book building from our angel investors network for pre-seed funding of between $10 000 to $100 000 to blend in brick and mortar aspects as well as commercialise your MVP within your SOM. We are the wise fool to support you first, through our advisory boards and love money. Our Love Money will cover some of the following, as advised by the board.

1. Monthly Budget for Marketing and Subscriptions You need early financial support for tactical GTM and necessary subscriptions to build early capacity i.e hosting, emails etc.

2. Working Tools You will need performance tools i.e developer laptop, power kits, comfortable desk setup.

3. Global Capital Markets To attract further funding beyond pre-seed stage you need to tap into global markets such as USA/UK and we will support you on this journey.

Local, with a global mindset


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Our Investment Thesis



In 2050 Africa’s population will be over 2.5billion accounting for at least 25% of world’s population meaning more complex problems which need to be solved by talented individuals in Africa, however most of the talent in Africa come from humble backgrounds to access funding to solve the complex problems at scale, hence we are building this platform to be the extended family to support these founders by providing them with advice and love money at an early stage. Some of the solutions to Africa’s problems have gone to the global stage for example Logan Green and a couple of friends during their college break in 2006, visited Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe which was facing a transportation crisis due to fuel shortages hence passengers were waving down cars with spare space on the side of the road. When Logan went back to the USA, he reflected on the observation he had made in Zimbabwe as Santa Barbara the town which he lived had mad traffic jams and more cars than Victoria Falls, he started working on his startup 'Zimride.' At the same time John Zimmer was working on a similar idea and they combined forces to execute on their startup idea. Over time Zimride evolved into Lyft which is current valued more than $5billion, this also gave inspiration to various ride sharing startups across the globe including Uber which is now valued at $150billion+. There are many talented individuals in Africa trying to solve our everyday challenges however struggle to raise patient capital to see through their breakthrough ideas unlike in developed markets where founders can easily access angel investors to support their ideas early on.

On the other hand, most of our angel investors are Africans in Diaspora. The reality being that most Africans in Diaspora are excluded from wealth creating opportunities both in Diaspora and back home due to various factors such as being secondary citiziens in Diaspora, not being on the ground back home, lack of network, and limited early stage investing knowledge hence most end up investing in the usual traditional businesses such as corner shops, small farming projects through relatives and friends with limited management experience resulting in perennial loss making entities and strained relationships. In most cases some passively invest in building mansions for funds preservation than wealth creation, these also end up deteriorating before retiring back home and constantly needing cash injection to spruce them up. Mostly their network is only limited to family members who are not on value creating tables back home hence will remain excluded from wealth creation despite having access to funding in Diaspora due to high margin propensity to save and access to cheap global funding options which are usually tapped by foreign investors who then learn new culture, new environment to invest in Africa when possibly Africans in Diaspora are better positioned to bring foreign investors as co-investors leveraging their local knowledge back home.

Our platform help you get networked to wealth creating opportunities back home by co-investing at pre-seed stage in startups which we have supported through our advisory and/or love money.

We are building the bridge between capital in Diaspora and wealth creating opportunities in startups back home. Welcome to the right table at the right time for wealth creation. We see problems back home as opportunities to create wealth by simply helping fix the problems leveraging tech and we are democratising access to tech investment opportunities in Africa.


Beyond convectional VC


Impact
We give feedback
  • Our constructive feedback loop help startups reflect and improve over time.

Power Law
We want every startup to be a winner
  • We evaluate each startup as a winner, we are not chasing unicorns but minicorns.

Unique
We don’t do competitions
  • We take time to evaluate each startup on a case-by-case and give tailor made feedback.

Support
We go beyond financial support
  • We provide support at board level in addition to financial support.

Family
We are your family
  • We want to build strong relationships and treat our startups as family or friends.


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The Boardroom

Working with various startups in Africa, we have noted how advisory or formal boards are very important to the success of a startup by providing valuable guidance, expertise, and network that can significantly impact a startup's growth and success. As a young to middle-aged professional some of the benefits of joining a startup board early on are as follows:

  • Accelerate and broaden your career path
  • Earn extra income through board fees
  • Build wealth through equity i.e stock options
  • Grow your network with like minded people
  • Gain a deep understanding of Africa's start-ups ecosystem

Boards compliment founders who may lack experience in any of key areas such as funding, product development, legal, human resources, strategy, operations, go to market which is a common phenomenon with most of Africa’s startups struggling to raise funding from angel investors and venture capital firms.

We are providing a win win solution for startups and professionals, with startups accessing superb expertise at a fraction whilst professionals are broadening their career paths by seating on various startup boards. We are doing this by building the best database for potential board members who are mostly young to middle aged professionals willing to join upcoming startups at board level. This will help provide Africa’s startup ecosystem with great talent as most talented individuals in Africa are quickly absorbed into high paying corporate jobs straight from university leaving limited talent into startups. Our boardroom initiative is a step in the direction to reverse the brain drain from startups to corporates. Startups are value creators who will develop Africa going forward

See you in the boardroom


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Voices from our ecosystem


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‘Brainstorming and being accountable through advisory boards with the team has been a key differentiator, hopefully I will be able to scale my startup ’


Anopa - Founder
Harare, Zimbabwe
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‘Venture capital has been non-existent in Africa and certainly this will compliment our local ecosystem as more angel investors participate in this'


David - Accountant
London, UK


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