Call for 20 women entrepreneurs to get moving with Awief

THE AFRICA Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (Awief) is hosting the fourth cohort of its Growth Accelerator, sponsored by Nedbank, and is open to applications.

“For the 2021 cohort, 20 female entrepreneurs would be selected from sectors including technology, agribusiness, financial services, manufacturing, health, education, tourism and hospitality, creative industries and renewable energy,” Awief said in a statement yesterday.

The Awief Growth Accelerator is designed to support the special needs of early-stage and high-growthoriented women-led ventures with business modelling, growth strategy training, corporate advisory, mentorship, networks and access to strategic partnerships.

The accelerator provides capital-raising support for growth, scale and sustainability. It builds women’s entrepreneurial leadership capacity, connects them with appropriate sources of capital and helps them scale. Applications close on June 14. Since 2017, more than 100 earlygrowth-stage women founders have gone through the accelerator programme, Awief said.