Accelerator

Ventures Platform - Apply for pre-seed and seed funding

Ventures Platform

Open. No closing date published. No fee to apply Last checked 4 Oct

At a glance

Deadline: Open. No closing date published.
Fee: No fee to apply
Who may apply: Your startup must mainly serve Africans, on the continent or in the diaspora
Running a pre-seed or seed stage startup
The form asks about your market, product roadmap, traction, business model and team, with a pitch deck upload
Where: Pan-African

An open pitch route to Ventures Platform, a pan-African venture fund that writes first cheques of $100,000 to $1 million at pre-seed and seed and usually leads the round. It backs first-time founders and founders building for African markets in any sector.

The facts

What you get: $100,000 to $1 million initial investment, more in follow-ons
Where: Pan-African
How long: Rolling, no deadline
Share of the prize or equity they take: Equity investment; terms not stated on the page

Where you stand

This one is free. There is no fee to apply, and nobody should ask you for money at any point.

What they ask for

Your startup must mainly serve Africans, on the continent or in the diaspora
Running a pre-seed or seed stage startup
The form asks about your market, product roadmap, traction, business model and team, with a pitch deck upload

Get ready to apply

Built only from what this listing states.

The application takes real work, by our reading.

1. What to get ready

The listing does not say what it needs. When you open their page, write down everything it asks for before you start.

2. Dates

No closing date is stated.
Openings with no closing date can close once they have enough people, so sooner is safer. Our advice

Download checklist (.txt) Send to WhatsApp

The download is a small text file. You can read it later without data. It also lists each condition they set, so you can tick yourself against them. WhatsApp sends the same list to you, or to somebody helping you.

No CV yet? Make a plain one from your answers. Nothing you type is kept.

Tips for applying for an accelerator

General advice from us, the same for every accelerator. It is not what this organisation says; that is above.

Check whether they take a share of your business, and how much. It is shown under the facts when the listing says.
Show traction: customers, sales, users, growth, even small.
Say plainly what problem you solve, for whom, and why your team.

If there is an interview or a test

Practise a two minute pitch and a longer five minute one.
Expect hard questions about your market and competitors. It is normal.

All our tips and messages to copy. Practise answering, with nothing kept. Received an offer? Check whether it is real, then read before you say yes.

How to apply

You apply on Ventures Platform's own website, not here. We never send an application for anybody and we never ask you for anything to pass on. Check their page for anything not shown here.

Go to the application

How we checked this

This was opened and verified at Ventures Platform's own website on 4 October 2026: it was real, still open, and open to people from African countries. If anything here is wrong, tell us.