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Cape Town City Center

AFRICARENA GRAND SUMMIT 2024

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a reimagined african tech conference

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AfricArena presents an opportunity to explore tomorrow’s trends today by showcasing some of Africa’s most innovative startups and connecting them with investors, corporates and enablers to accelerate their growth. 

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We strongly believe in the power of providing a platform that fosters bright and forward-thinking minds to network, get inspired and co-build a stronger tech startup investment ecosystem for Africa. 

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The AfricArena Summit is an annual tech conference that showcases Africa's best startups and innovators in front of an audience of local and international investors looking for the most promising tech startups.

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keep in touch with the 2024 africarena grand summit startups

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Explore disruptive technologies and game-changing solutions in finance, health, energy, and more, while connecting directly with the startups to stay engaged with their transformative journeys.

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In a Nutshell

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Attendees
600+
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Investors
150+
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Startups
100+
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Speakers
120+
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Countries
30+
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Africarena 
VC unconference 2024

From November 30 to December 2, 2024, the VC Unconference brought together investors for informal discussions on deal sourcing, portfolio management, and co-investment opportunities. This exclusive event mapped Africa's tech ecosystem, standardized knowledge sharing, and strengthened collaboration. Held alongside the AfricArena Grand Summit, it fostered innovation exchange and advanced investment practices across the continent.

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Relive Our best moments from 2024

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Re-Live
AfricArena 2024

GRAND SUMMIT FOUNDERS BOOTCAMP 2024

A private workshop dedicated to selected startups from across the countries will be pitching at the AfricArena Summit. 

 

It aims to create strong connections, peer-to-peer learning between the entrepreneurs, training and equipping startups with the necessary tools and knowledge to prepare them to showcase and effectively deliver high quality, concise and engaging pitches to the right audience.

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we have heard from the best speakers

2024 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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Tonee Ndungu

Entrepreneur | Speaker Author

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Maxime Bayen

Co-founder | Africa; The Big Deal

Operating Partner | Catalyst Fund

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Justin Coetzee

Founder & CEO of 
GoMetro

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Maurizio Caio

Founder and Managing Partner of TLcom Capital LLP, Nairobi

key topics for 2024

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Agri-Tech

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Education

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Investment in Tech Startups

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Innovation

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DeepTech and AI

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Tech4Good

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ClimateTech

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Gender Diversity

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get in on it

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Become an Exhibitor

at The Summit

We offer a few booths and exhibitions opportunities to enable high-quality products and services to get visibility. Please apply if you would like to learn more about the available packages.

Become a

Media Partner

Are you keen to discovering and sharing insights into tech innovation and investment in Africa? Get in touch with us to find out how we can work together!

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