Vodacom is offering a Digital Accelerator for startups that have innovative solutions for Fintech, E-commerce, Telecom, Health, Mobile, Education, Agriculture and Media in 2020.
Vodacom Digital Accelerator is a program that seeks start-ups that have innovative solutions and provides facilitation to take these businesses to the next level.
The startups will have access to mentorship, co-working space, hosting assistance, Vodacom and Smart Codes staff advisors and business development trainings.
Worth of Award
- Sponsorship: Vodacom will provide sponsors for the selected applicants who will act as mentors for the candidates.
- Vodacom Foundation Projects: The start-ups will have access to a segment of Vodacom’s wide-reaching active customer base for product testing.
- Technical support: Startups in the program will receive technical support in terms of hosting, software development, advisory, and integration.
- Partnering in Corporate Social Responsibility: Startups with a social responsibility focus in health, education, financial inclusion or human resources can utilize their product /platform to support ongoing.
- Mpesa for Business Services: Monetary transactions and collections made on behalf of our incubated startups (for work-related purposes) will be exclusively be done via Vodacom M-Pesa.
- Follow-on investment for Growth: Startups that do well in the program will receive follow-on investment to rapidly grow their startup across the country and in Africa.
- Go to market strategy: Startups will receive help crafting their go to market strategies, growth strategies, and marketing strategies.
Eligibility
- Post Production: Applicants must have an idea/product that is already functional.
- 1 Year+ in the Market: Applicants must have an idea/product that has been in the market for over a year.
- Full-Time Founders: Business or idea being pitched for must have founders who supervise it on a full-time basis.
- Industry/Sector Focused: Applicants must have an idea/product that is focused and based on the focus sectors.
- Africa Based: Ideas and products must be relevant to the African Market.
- Registered Entity: Any idea or product being presented must be registered.
How to Apply
- You can apply for this opportunity online
- Only suitable ideas will pass to the next stage of the program for acceleration. Participants have two weeks to submit their proposals and ideas.
- In the last two weeks of the month, the filtering process will begin to determine out viable and suitable ideas for further consideration.
Deadline: Applications close Nov 30, 2019.