Call for applications: Google for Startups accelerator programme in Africa

Launched in 2017, the three-month virtual initiative targets high potential seed to Series A tech startups in Africa. The announcement follows Google for Startups’ equity-free funding to 50 African startups through its $3m Black Founders Fund Africa.

Startups at the seed to Series A stages from Algeria, Botswana, Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda and Zimbabwe are invited to apply.

Key benefits

• Three months of equity-free support.
• Mentoring from more than 20 Google teams.
• Training on design, marketing and leadership.
• Google product credits for participants’ tech stack.
• Early access to new Google products and tools. 
• Access to Google’s network of industry experts.
• Partnership on an advanced technology project.

Interested participants can apply here. The application deadline is 14 January 2022.

Alumni of the programme include Ghana-based media platform OMG Digital and South Africa-based visual effects platform Beamm, among others.

“We are honoured to have yet another opportunity to connect with African innovators and empower them through the seventh class of Google For Startups Accelerator Africa,” Google’s head of developer and startup ecosystem for Sub-Saharan Africa, Andy Volk said. “We know that, as with previous classes, we are on the cusp of uncovering more outstanding technology-led solutions to some of the continent’s most pressing challenges, developed by Africans themselves.”

View the original call here.