Call for Applications: Energy Camp 2024 for African Energy Startups

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Are you an innovative entrepreneur looking to transform the energy supply and livelihoods in SubSaharan Africa? Do you have a mature product or business idea and/or a first prototype for the decentralised renewable energy sector in Sub-Saharan Africa? Apply for the next Energy Camp for African Energy Startups.

Energy Camp Benefits

Energy Camp

For an entire week, you will engage in an intensive programme that includes interactive training sessions, networking opportunities with other innovators and tailored workshops.

Here’s what awaits you at the Energy Camp:

Customer-Focused Product Development: Discover how to refine your product to meet customer needs effectively.
Exploring Sales Channels: Identify and leverage the best sales channels for your business.
Building a Dynamic Team: Learn the best ways to put together and manage a powerful team.
Financial Planning Essentials: Get crucial insights into financial planning and management.
Pitching to Investors/Partners: Master the art of presenting your startup to investors and potential partners.
Funding Applications: Understand what funders look for in applications and proposals to increase your chances of success.

Fellowship

The Energy Camp will culminate in an international Demo Day (online), where you get the chance to pitch your solution to a global audience of investors, organisations, corporatives.

But that’s not the end of the journey together! As a Fellow of Startup|Energy, you’ll continue to benefit from their support:

Tailored coaching: Thanks to the Energy Camp, they know your startup better. In tailored coaching sessions, they provide you with specific support for the further development of your startup.
Global Exposure: Present your startup to an international audience at their online pitch event.
Exclusive Expert Webinars: Participate in exclusive webinars with industry experts who can offer invaluable advice.
Network Access: Gain continuous access to their extensive international network and the collective entrepreneurial knowledge of their coaches.
Media Exposure: Share your progress and milestones through Sun-Connect News, a global news-magazine reaching over 10,000 readers worldwide every week.

Eligibility Criteria for Energy Camp

Business sector

Your startup must offer a product or service for decentralized energy market in sub-Saharan Africa, such as:

- Energy production or distribution
- Storage systems
- Energy solutions or services for example for health, education, water, sanitation, consumption, mobility, agriculture
- Energy-efficient products and services
- Financing solutions
- Measuring and control systems
- Recycling/Repurposing

Type of product/service

Your business idea:

- is a development of a new product or service with MVP (not just an idea), or
- a significant improvement of an existing product / service, or
- you introduce with your startup a known product / service into new markets.

Location
- Headquarters registered in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Majority of shares
- African nationals or Non-Africans living permanently in Africa
Experience
- One of the founders already has at least 2 years of business experience
Status
- A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is ready, first pilot customers are existing or pilot project realised
Independence
- No branch or franchise of an international company
Age of product/service
- 10 years
Investment
- The company did not yet receive > 500k euros from investors.