{"id":640219,"date":"2019-06-19T13:14:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T13:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<figure class=\"fff post-thumbnail\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img class=\"post_layout_5_img\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/06\/Ecobank.jpeg\" alt=\"Ecobank partners SFAN to organize Pan-Af"},"modified":"2019-06-19T13:14:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T13:14:46","slug":"ecobank-partners-sfan-to-organize-pan-african-student-entrepreneurship-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/19\/ecobank-partners-sfan-to-organize-pan-african-student-entrepreneurship-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecobank partners SFAN to organize Pan-African student entrepreneurship week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"fff post-thumbnail\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"post_layout_5_img\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/Ecobank.jpeg\" alt=\"Ecobank partners SFAN to organize Pan-African student entrepreneurship week\"\/><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SFAN, with the support of Ecobank Ghana, is organizing the first-ever <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Student Entrepreneurship Week Pan-Africa<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (SEWAfrica)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0from July 22 to \u2013July 24, 2019, at the Ecobank Head Office, Accra. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Student Entrepreneurship Week is an education forum, which was established to help budding entrepreneurs gain actionable, experiential knowledge and tools for building sustainable businesses. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SEWAfrica also serves as a platform for showcasing talents, facilitating networking and identifying funding sources for start-up businesses. The event is expected to host about 700 high potential innovators from around the continent over three days of power-packed training, thought leadership, pitching, and insightful conversations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">High growth technology entrepreneurs targeting a billion-dollar market will have the chance to pitch their businesses for funding of up to <\/span>$100,000<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> during the 1-on-1 pitch session with <\/span>Ingressive Capital<b>, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">an Africa-focused venture capital fund. Ingressive Capital is sector agnostic. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This means you can have a company in Fintech, manufacturing tech, ISP, logistics, O&amp;G tech, or health-tech as long as you\u2019re focused on a scalable market. The Fund\u2019s past investments include Paystack and Tizeti, who recently raised significant Series A investments, as well as AwaBike and more. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Investors like <\/span>QI Holdings<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an AI venture building firm are also excitedly open to investing up to <\/span>$10,000<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in start-ups that are the right fit for them. Partners for the event include Ingressive, QI Holdings, Movemeback, ABANAngels, 3rdfloor Digital, East Gate Hotel, and more. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Being a Pan African Banking institution, with a vision to contributing to the economic development and financial integration of Africa, Ecobank Ghana supports SFAN in its work to unlocking business potentials of young Africans for job creation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SFAN President, <\/span>Tom-Chris Emewulu<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> says: \u201cWe\u2019re incredibly excited to be creating the pan-African Student Entrepreneurship Week to equip young and ambitious innovators with tools they need to build successful businesses. We\u2019re excited to partner with Ecobank, the pan-African bank, to host this brilliant event. As with SFAN events, we\u2019re assembling some of the best and brightest speakers and trainers to spark meaningful conversations that help turn ideas into innovations.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Startups looking to pitch to Ingressive Capital should meet the following criteria:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They have launched their startup, have initial traction (i.e. money, users, etc.) and customer validation,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">have a clear business model, start ups should have a<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0high growth technology business targeting a billion-dollar market.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The\u00a0 team should be bright, hungry, and know their market better than anyone else <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The team is also expected to have a competitive advantage over currently available solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Applications are open to all African countries until June 30, 2019. To apply, visit <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.studententrepreneurshipweek.com<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"\/>  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SFAN, with the support of Ecobank Ghana, is organizing the first-ever Student Entrepreneurship Week Pan-Africa (SEWAfrica) \u00a0from July 22 to \u2013July 24, 2019, at the Ecobank Head Office, Accra. \u00a0 The Student Entrepreneurship Week is an education forum, which was established to help budding entrepreneurs gain actionable, experiential knowledge and tools for building sustainable businesses. 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