Africax - CRDFGlobal - 7.8.2013

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Its time

Africaby

Ovidiu BujoreanSenior Program Man

CRDF Global

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WHY Africa ?

Africa the worlds fastest growing continent:

6 of the worlds fastest 10 fastest economies (Economist)

40% of the population are young adults (AfD

Africa equity funds expand nearly fivefold in last 6 years (Reuters

5 % growth expected in 2013 (IM

100< business incubators, hacker spaces & tech hubs exist in Africa

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WHY Africa Meet Joseph Ajao of Nigeria.

Joseph Ajao

Founder of GloballyEduca

Nigeria

Mission: To eradicate poverty using education

Solution: GloballyEducated

Worked at: Google, Goldman Sachs, Rocket Internet

Represented: Nigeria in 6 continents at

Business and Technology competitions

and conferences

Employs: 8 peopleTaught: 196,000 students in 546 classes

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WHY Africa ? Joseph is not alone. African entrepreneurs in a

Lorna Rutto

Founder of EcoPost

Kenya

Created 300 jobs and generated

$120,000 by providing access to

employment to the mostmarginalized

Ndubisi Ekekw

Founder of AFR

Nigeria

AFRIT facilitates

diffusion of emer

technologies into Aeconomies

Seth Akumani

Founder of Claimsync

Ghana

Claimsync software to

improve healthcare in

Africa

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WHAT is Africa Empower from within

Catalyze sustainable growth through the power of technology

By nurturing the next generation of entrepreneurs and giving them tools t

Kenya Senegal

Rwanda Nigeria Ghana

Uganda Tanzania


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Competitions More than 100 Go-To-Market plans

Boot Camps 2 startup boot camps for 300 entrepreneurs

Angel Development Launched Angel Investors group in Seneg

TechConnect Engaged 5 countries

CRDF Global: Experience to create Africa74 top CRDF

$4.5

$1.3

422 peopl

199jobs cre

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30 role models African entrepreneurs to inspire next generations

100 top entrepreneurs will raise jobs, raise capital, and generate revenu

14 local partners trained and empowered

200 mentors + 100 entrepreneurs in Glocal Mentorship

1,000 entrepreneurs trained & 300 people in a new Africa network

15,000 online viewers @ 9 TechConnects

120,000 entrepreneurs in Africa network

3 Year of Africa ResultsX


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Why CRDF for Africa ?

994entrepreneurs

trained

$3Mannual revenue

by GISTTransformers

4tech

competitions

827jobs created inpast 12 months

by GISTTransformers

$21Mfunding raised

by GISTTransformers

165K+in the GIST

FBnetwork

The GIST Initiative [a CRDF pro

trained startups and connected

80,000 young technology entrep

I look forward to expanding the im

public-private partnersh

Hillary Rodham Clinto

10 x

Program

Amount

Startup

Weekend

117K

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Africa Enablers

VETTED IMPLEMENTING

AFRICAN PARTNERSEXPERIENCED

MENTORS

HIGH PROFILE GLOBAL

ADVISORS

ENTREPRENEURS EXPERIE

Africa T

5 225 7 1,500 5

Nolan Bushnell

Founder of Atari

Jeff Hoffman

Co-Founder of

Priceline.com

Nata

Associate Pr

Ovidiu B

Senior Progra

Djiba Diallo Diao

Develop at Microsoft

Peter Ulanga

Chief Executive

UCSAF

Arnold Minde

Founder of Safari Yetu

Catherine Kiguru

Founder of Ukall

Limited

SUPPORTING

PARTNERS

5

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Africa : Action

Accelerators

(enhance capabilities of accelerators)

Africa Transformers

Governments

(involve local governments)

Angel Groups

(establish 7

angel groups)

Mentor

Networks

(community of

100 mentors)

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To

Boot Camps

Online Education

Competitions

Ecosystem

M

To

Deal

Flow

Train(10K entrepreneurs online)

Mentor 200 transformers

Seed 30

companies

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Africax - CRDFGlobal - 7.8.2013