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ABOUT THE SUMMIT
Uniting Africa's Innovation Ecosystem
The 10th Anniversary Edition of the AfricArena Grand Summit celebrates a decade of connecting Africa's leading startup and investment ecosystem. Bringing together entrepreneurs, investors, corporates, and innovation stakeholders from across the continent and beyond, the summit marks the culmination of AfricArena's regional events. It showcases some of the continent's most promising startup winners while fostering meaningful connections that drive investment, growth, and collaboration. Join us as we celebrate 10 years of innovation, entrepreneurship, and impact across Africa.
50+
Startups
30+
Investors
500+
Attendees
50+
Sponsors & Partners
What To expect
An Experience that Inspires and Connects
Insightful conversations, game-changing startups, meaningful connections,
All in One Place.
Hear From Top Voices
Each year, we convene industry experts, academics, and leading voices from across the ecosystem to explore key topics including venture capital, emerging tech trends, startups, and the future of innovation.
Startup Showcase
Discover the rising star shaping the future of technology in Africa at the AfricArena Grand Summit.
Networking Opportunity
An opportunity to network and connect with investors, fellow founders, and ecosystem stakeholders, creating meaningful relationships that open doors to collaboration, investment, and growth across the African tech landscape.
A summit reimagined
For its landmark 10th edition, AfricArena is introducing a new summit experience built around two complementary events. The Scale Summit brings together corporate-ready African companies raising growth capital, while the Rise Summit showcases the continent's most promising early-stage founders. Together, these two experiences provide a clearer, more focused platform for discovering innovation, building partnerships and connecting with Africa's leading entrepreneurs.
Scale Summit
The AfricArena Scale Up summit is a curated one-day summit built around corporate-ready African scale-ups. The day combines buyer briefings, investor perspectives, founder showcases and pre-matched 1:1 meetings with companies raising Series A, Series B and growth rounds. It is part of the Corporate Access Series which is a one-year membership that delivers structured dealflow, curated intelligence, and in-person access to Africa's most investment-ready tech companies, across four glob
Who's in the room?
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Scale ups
50 +
Buyers
Attendees
100+
Rise Summit
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The AfricArena Rise Summit will bring together over 150 local and 200 international African-focused VCs, DFIs, angel investors, corporates and startups over 1-day with the aim of improving the investment process on the African continent and many more. The event will focus on 10 tech sectors.
featured events
AfricArena extends beyond the stage with a curated programme of featured events that complement the summit experience. Each event is designed to bring together founders, investors, corporates and ecosystem leaders through unique opportunities for learning, collaboration and networking.
Venture Unconference
Prior to the summit, we bring together the most active investors in Africa-focused tech at the Venture Unconference to foster co-investment in Africa.
VC Night
An unforgettable evening where visionary founders and forward-thinking investors come together to spark new ideas and share insights with one another.
Wired Connect
This exclusive speed networking opportunity is designed to bring together Limited Partners (LPs), General Partners (GPs), corporate, ecosystem players, and startups.
Founders Bootcamp
Intense and focused session dedicated to accelerate their knowledge in key areas that are often overlooked.
Get involved
Volunteer at The Summit
Want to be part of the AfricArena Grand Summit? Join our volunteer team and help create an unforgettable experience.
