AFRISE Challenge 2025 (3rd Edition) for African Young Entrepreneurs

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Applications are now open for 3rd Edition of the AFRISE Challenge. The AFRISE Challenge provides an opportunity for high potential African youth and student entrepreneurs to rise up in their entrepreneurial journey, and contribute to local and regional economic development by becoming job creators.

Concordia University and Hindsight Ventures have partnered for this program, with a central theme focusing on how youth entrepreneurs can help “African” economies to “Rise”.

AFRISE Challenge Areas

They are looking for enterprising youth (as individuals or teams) who are solving for, but not limited to below:

Financial Services
Healthcare
Agriculture
Energy/Utility
Education
Environment
Telecommunications
Arts & Creativity

Program Duration

4 Weeks Virtual Bootcamp

AFRISE Challenge Benefits

Accelerator Program
- 30 high-potential founders will be selected for a mentorship and leadership development accelerator, that will be delivered by successful founders, industry leaders, domain experts and investors; alongside leaders from Concordia University, Hindsight Ventures and AfriLabs global network.
International Demo Day
- The Accelerator Program will culminate with an International Demo Day, wherein the Top-15 Entrepreneurs present at a Virtual Demo Day to a group of early stage venture investors and Entrepreneurship Support Organizations for accessing funding support (grant + equity based funding)
Technology Credits and other Support
- Each startup gets in excess of $600,000 in technology credits from partners such as AWS, Zoho, IBM, Microsoft, Canva, DigitalOcean, FreshWorks and more.
International Market Exposure
- 5 Youth Entrepreneurs get selected for a 1-Week International Market Exposure.

Eligibility Criteria for AFRISE Challenge

You can apply provided you are a young entrepreneur from Uganda/Nigeria/Morocco/Senegal/Kenya, solving a problem with the potential to have a massive impact.
The program is aimed at 18 – 35 year old African youth.