This year, as we go into our seventh year, we’re kicking off 2024 with our first summit of the year, the two-day AfricArena Johannesburg Deep Tech, Enterprise & Green Economy Summit 2024. 

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Join us in the heart of South Africa’s economic capital and watch over +20 startups pitch their tech ventures to local and international investors and be a part of powerful, engaging conversations about Africa’s booming tech ecosystem, and network with investors, venture capitalists, limited partners, general partners, ecosystem builders, government and policy makers.

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Each year, the AfricArena Team tours the continent to source Africa’s top tech startups in each of Africa’s four regions, Southern Africa, East Africa, West Africa and North Africa, giving over +20 startups from each region an opportunity to pitch in the Open Innovation Challenges on an African and global stage and showcase their highly scalable ventures to an audience of over +250 local and international investors. This year, as part of our international scaling out tour, we will be going on an AfricArena roadshow to the UK, France, Germany and the US where we will showcase the best of Africa’s tech startups in these regions. 

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Our two-day summits this year will follow the same format as their predecessors from previous years with an AfricArise Bootcamp bringing startups a powerful readiness and networking tool as they make their way to the summit.

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At the end of each year, the regional winners convene in Cape Town at the annual AfricArena Cape Town Grand Summit pitch battle which decides the overall best AfricArena tech startups winners in each Open Innovation Challenge.