Success and (especially) failure stories of African startups

Free Workshop #6 for The Africa Angel Accelerator, powered by AVPA

We’ve talked in past weeks about how and why Angel investors invest. Now it’s time to talk about the results, and not just the success stories, but real world failures. Investments that lost real money. Unfortunately, the more common path for startups and their investors. Let’s learn the lessons so they are not repeated.

The Angel Accelerator not only teaches you how to invest in early-stage and growing companies, but how to do that as an impact investor, either balancing returns and impact or maximizing both. Your choice.

This is the sixth of seven free workshops providing a taste of that program.

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Three other free workshops will follow weekly before we ask participants to sign up for the full 10-week, weekly program.

Hopefully by the end of the program the world will be opened back up, recovering from a year of lockdowns, etc. The entrepreneurs have already begun the rebuilding and have plans on building back better. Now is a great time to take a few hours, learn these new skills, and be ready to fund the new economy.

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The Africa Angel Accelerator is a training program for Angels investing in Africa, teaching the skills needed to confidently invest in startups, especially those doing good through business. This is Angel Investing 101, 201, and 301, focusing on the key knowledge needed to be an Angel investor, learned by making actual investments.

More details at theAngelAccelerator.com

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AVPA is partnering with The Angel Accelerator to bring you these workshops.

AVPA is the Africa Venture Philanthropy Alliance, a Pan-African network for social investors who are interested in collaborating to increase the flow of capital into social investments across Africa and ensure that capital (financial, human and/or intellectual) is deployed as effectively and innovatively as possible for maximum social impact.

More details at avpa.africa