Grants for African Entrepreneurs | Find Funding for Your Business & NGO

The €30,000 House of No Waste Competition (HØW) calls upon aspiring young architects, landscape architects, building and structural engineers, planners, builders, material and environmental scientists, product designers, and built environment professionals to engage in a global competition that tackles pressing issues of the circular economy, Resource Nexus and waste management in the built environment.

Over $320,000 up for grabs! Don’t miss these 7 funding opportunities for women in tech, science, entrepreneurship, and research—closing between September and November 2025

The €10,000 Yves Rocher Foundation’s Prix Terre de Femmes celebrates and empowers women whose actions make a real difference for the environment.

The Jana Robeyst Trust Fund (JRTF) provides financial resources to early career biologists/conservationists to carry out vital field conservation and research work of endangered mammals in Africa.

The $385,000 NurseHack4Health brings together a global community of nurses, healthcare professionals, developers, engineers, IT experts, and innovators to ideate and launch solutions for urgent healthcare challenges.

The SAIS Investment Readiness Programme 2026 is a free, year-long, tailor-made support programme for African start-ups creating impact in the agricultural sector and related fields.

The Tech FoundHER Africa Challenge 2025, powered by Naspers and Prosus and delivered in partnership with Lionesses of Africa, presents an opportunity for women tech (co)founders in Africa to win up to $100,000 in equity-free grants, gain mentorship, and enhance visibility to accelerate their business growth.

The Schlumberger Foundation is gearing up to open applications for its distinguished Faculty for the $50,000 Future fellowships, offering funding for PhD and post-doctoral research to women engineers and scientists from developing and emerging economies.

SHIFT (Scaling Holistic Inclusion in Fintech Transformation) is a migration-focused support program designed for growth-stage fintechs in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and Asia.

The $5,000 Africa PachiPanda Challenge, a joint effort by MTN and WWF to inspire and support innovative solutions addressing pressing environmental challenges across the continent.