Abidjan Summit 2024

This year, AfricArena organized six hybrid events across four regions in Africa, leading up to the annual AfricArena Grand Summit in Cape Town. The Regional Events brought together startups, investors, and corporations from the region and across Africa.

Participants stepped into a unique space of innovation and partnership at the AfricArena Abidjan Summit, held from the 25th to the 26th of June 2024 in the vibrant city of Abidjan, Ivory Coast. This exclusive event served as a crossroad for African investment ecosystems to converge.

A prestigious cohort of investors, venture capitalists, limited partners, family offices, and top business, tech, and investment minds in the region gathered with the mission to strengthen ties between the Ivory Coast and African tech sectors, creating partnership opportunities, fostering exchanges, and catalyzing investments.

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founders bootcamp

The Abidjan Founders Bootcamp is

a private workshop dedicated to selected startups from various countries pitched at the AfricArena Summit.

The workshop aimed to foster strong connections, enable peer-to-peer learning among entrepreneurs, and provide training to equip startups with the essential tools and knowledge to prepare them for delivering high-quality, concise, and engaging pitches to the right audience.

LEARNING EXPEDITION

Objectives of the Learning Expedition to Abidjan

AfricArena is providing partners, corporates delegates, and investors the opportunity to explore the Ivory Coast Tech entrepreneurial and investor scene.

This is an extraordinary opportunity for entrepreneurs alike to network and gain invaluable insight into the Ivorian ecosystem and its important local innovation players in just one day. It is the occasion to discover the Abidjan innovation and cultural scene just before the AfricArena Tour conference in the city the 24th of June.

The Learning Expedition is designed to cover key aspects such as:

Corporate collaboration
Funding in Ivory Coast
An overview of the innovation landscape Business in Ivory Coast & Africa
Soft-landing possibilities

These topics will be covered while visiting some of Abidjan’s leading co-working spaces, accelerators and incubators, where key local innovation, speakers will be giving insights into one of Africa’s most exciting tech landscapes.