Your Startup Experience
Whether you're raising capital, looking for customers, hiring talent or preparing for your next stage of growth, Africa Startup Festival is designed to move your company forward.
From curated investor meetings to founder mentoring, startup showcases and AI-powered networking, every experience at ASF is built around one thing: creating opportunities that matter.
What's available to participating startups?
Every accepted startup receives access to the full Africa Startup Festival experience, including investor introductions, founder programming, networking, startup showcases and exclusive startup-only experiences throughout the festival.
Investor Hours
Raise capital through curated meetings.
Investor Hours connects selected founders with active venture capital firms, angel investors, family offices and institutional investors through a series of pre-arranged one-on-one meetings.
Every meeting is matched based on your stage, sector and fundraising goals, giving founders meaningful conversations instead of random introductions.
Whether you're raising a pre-seed round or preparing for Series A, this is where fundraising conversations begin.
Mentor Hours
Learn directly from operators who've built before.
We believe founders learn as much from each other as they do from the expert in the room. In small group circles, the mentor's role is mostly to steer the conversation, not to lecture or lead it.
Each founder gets a chance to share their own perspective on an issue another founder raises, so the value comes from the collective experience in the room, not just the mentor's.
Each circle is capped at a maximum of 20 founders, to keep the discussion genuinely interactive rather than a one-way talk.
Startup Market
Meet your next customer.
The Startup Market brings together Africa's most ambitious startups inside a dedicated exhibition where thousands of founders, enterprise buyers, investors, media and attendees discover new products.
Launch your company.
Generate leads.
Book demos.
Meet partners.
Acquire customers.
This is where startups get discovered.
Networking App
Every attendee in your pocket.
Your networking starts long before the festival begins.
Create your company profile, discover attendees, schedule meetings, exchange messages and connect with founders, investors, operators, corporates and policymakers through the ASF networking platform.
Because the best conversations shouldn't happen by chance.
Impact Stage
Take the stage.
The Impact Stage showcases some of the continent's most promising startups through live pitches, founder spotlights and product demonstrations.
Pitch in front of investors.
Share your vision.
Launch your company.
Tell your story.
Whether you're announcing your next product or raising your next round, this is your opportunity to be seen by the people who matter most.
More than a conference
The Only Important Event You Need to Close the Year.The Africa Startup Festival — recognized by Business Insider as Africa’s top deal-making and networking event — brings together investors, founders, builders, and operators in one powerful gathering. Explore how emerging technologies and bold innovations are transforming industries across the continent. As the definitive end-of-year gathering, ASF sets the stage for the partnerships and deals that will define 2026.