Deadline: May 6, 2022.

ShEquity Business Accelerator (SHEBA) provides venture building and technical support to African female entrepreneurs with impactful and scalable businesses in agribusiness (agritech, production, processing, wholesale & retailing, any other agribusiness value chain aspects), healthcare, tech enabled solutions (fintech, clean-tech, etc.), renewable energies, mobility and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCGs).

Launched in March 2021, ShEquity Business Accelerator (SHEBA), was created to address the existing gender funding gap by de-risking  African female-led businesses, getting them fit for investment and equipping the founders with skills set needed to grow and scale their businesses.

ELIGIBILITY

1. You may apply if you hold an executive leadership position within the company.
2. You must also be the largest shareholder of founder equity in the company or own a share at least equal to that of your cofounder(s).
3. A SHEBA pre-requisite is that the female founder be the participating elect in the accelerator program.
4. The Accelerator provides venture building and technical support to African female entrepreneurs with impactful and scalable businesses in agribusiness (agritech, production, processing, wholesale & retailing, any other agribusiness value chain aspects), healthcare, tech enabled solutions(fintech, clean-tech, etc.), renewable energies, mobility and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCGs).

BENEFITS

1. Every year, SHEBA plans to organize a demo day  involving  other seed investors. All participants who successfully completed the acceleration program will be invited to pitch to those investors and this should create more visibility for the participants and increase chances for getting funded.
2. The typical ShEquity seed investment range between US$50K to 250K. In addition, SHEBA demo days where other investors have opportunities to access impactful and scalable female-led businesses.

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