She Leads Africa Launches Female Entrepreneurs Pitch Competition {$10, 000 Cash Prize For 1st Place}

She Leads Africa is a social enterprise ensuring that women are part of Africa’s growth story by helping female entrepreneurs gain access to the knowledge, networks and financing to build and scale strong businesses.

They have announced the launch of a business pitch competition exclusively for female entrepreneurs, which will give the most promising female entrepreneurs in Africa a platform to connect to prominent mentors, business funding and new market opportunities.

“Female entrepreneurs are unfortunately missing from the conversation around Africa’s growth story but the continent will not be able to reach its full potential without the full economic participation of women”, says leads organizer Afua Osei. She leads Africa addresses this challenge head on with a series of programs to help female entrepreneurs gain business fundamentals, connect to an active business network and increase their access to financing.

The first initiative to increase finance is a pitch competition in September which will screen applications to identify the top 10 talented female entrepreneurs who have founded or co-founded early stage startups. Finalists will be selected by professionals in the consulting, venture capital and finance industry based on the strength of the idea, ability to scale, understanding of the market and the quality of the management team. Special consideration will be given to entrepreneurs in the technology sector.

 Finalists will be paired with mentors to help their businesses and the entrepreneurs will be brought to Lagos to pitch their businesses to a panel of notable business personalities. They will be competing for a $10, 000 cash first prize, one on one meetings with venture capitalists, legal advice from a premier law firm, free business lines and internet packages for a year, tablets, SME accounting software and much more.

So, ladies, if this fits you do not hesitate to try out. Read more here and learn how you can go about that. All the best!

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