Venture Capital for Africa is the continent’s leading founder’s network, the largest and fastest growing community of entrepreneurs and investors building promising companies in Africa, and has been doing well to build a robust ecosystem and support network for Africa’s most promising entrepreneurs.
A place where people can come together to share ideas and learn from one another’s experiences. A place where we can celebrate our successes and work together to tackle the challenges we face moving forward, VC4Africa has now crossed some milestones worth celebrating:
Some new milestones for our community
- first 1,000,000 page views served
- we are now 10,000 members strong and growing
- 1,000 ventures registered and counting
Here is a brief timeline of events since conception:
- November 2006 – A conversation at the AVCA meeting in Senegal
- June 2008 – Opened the African Venture Capital and Private Equity group on Linkedin
- May 2009 – Launched the Ning platform
- June 2009 – First meetup was hosted in Kampala, Uganda
- November 2010 – Soft launched the VC4Africa.biz community platform
- September 2011 – Said goodbye to VC4Africa.com
- January 2012 – First deal closed
- May 2012 – Launched the VC4A Investor Network
- September 2012 – Launch of the beta mentorship program
- February 2013 – New homepage and site upgrade
… and there is so much more to come
Join in the celebration of these milestone
VC4Africa is a project that has grown organically over time and because a collection of people wanted to address a real need. The simple idea that by combining our network, knowledge and capital we could do more to support the continent’s most promising entrepreneurs. Building on the idea that we are only as strong as our ability to work together. Leave a comment, and tell us why the community inspires you!
Source: vc4afri.ca
