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

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 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.

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 $85,000 Aurora Tech Award is an annual global prize created and supported by inDrive to empower women entrepreneurs in IT by providing financial support, mentorship, and opportunities to expand their ventures.

The Africa Creative Market (ACM), in partnership with Ascend Studios Foundation, AWS, and Co-Creation Hub,is excited to announce the ₦10,000,000 ACM 2025 Hackathon— an innovation-driven challenge bringing together Africa’s brightest minds to solve one of the continent’s biggest creative economy challenges: music and film distribution

This $30,000 program is designed to spotlight bold, innovative startups and organisations working at the intersection of creativity, technology, and entrepreneurship in West Africa and beyond.

Explore upcoming grants closing between September 1st and 10th, with a combined value of nearly $3 million (₦4 billion)

The $50,000 Giga Accelerator Programme presents a transformative opportunity for innovators to contribute to bridging the digital divide in schools by scaling up their solutions for global impact.

Explore upcoming grant opportunities worth over $1.6 million (₦2.63 billion) and closing soon between August 27th and 31st.

The $350,000 Google for Startups Accelerator: Africa has officially opened applications for its three-month hybrid program designed to empower Seed to Series A technology startups across South Africa.