Expo & Content Sessions: 11 - 13 Nov 2025
VIP & Partner Events: 10 - 13 Nov 2025
Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town
AfricaIgnite
The Home of African Founders
Powering the next wave of African innovation
Empowering Start-Ups, Connecting Founders, Shaping Tomorrow
AfricaIgnite brings together Africa’s most promising start-ups and forward-thinking investors to connect, collaborate, and accelerate growth. It offers unmatched opportunities to unlock investment, forge strategic partnerships, and access untapped markets across the continent.
2025 Features For Investors:
Investor Day
Investor Day offers a forum for high-value conversations. Connect with peers, engage with LPs actively seeking to fund VC firms, and hear directly from policy-makers shaping Africa’s investment landscape, all within an exclusive, investor-only networking space designed to foster strategic connections.
Investor Lounge
An exclusive space for VCs, LPs, and Angel Investors to connect, build relationships, and engage in impactful discussions.
Investor–Founder Matchmaking
A curated matchmaking experience connecting high-potential founders with aligned investors for meaningful, targeted conversations.
Corporate VC Connect:
An exclusive breakfast gathering 20–30 venture capitalists and corporates for networking, strategic insights, and private, closed-door discussions.
For Founders: The 2025 Experience
Founder Day
Founders Day, sponsored by First Serve Ventures, brings together around 250 founders and investors to share valuable insights on key topics including fundraising, growth strategies, and market entry tactics. The day features panels, masterclasses, and networking sessions, culminating in a mixer between founders and investors.
Founders Learning Hub
Dedicated to empowering founders with the tools and skills needed to scale their businesses. From practical growth strategies to access to essential resources, the Hub provides founders with the knowledge and visibility they need to accelerate their journey to success.
Start-up Marketplace
The Start-up Marketplace is the perfect place to connect with start-ups, investors, and corporates who matched your objectives. Whether you wanted to chat, secure an investment, recruit talented people, or sell a service.
Sector Spotlights:
AfricaIgnite offers deep dives into key sectors of Africa's startup ecosystem including ClimateTech, Fintech, AI & Agritech. Each focus area features dedicated content, pitch showcases, and strategic meetups where founders and interested investors can connect and build valuable relationships.
AfricaIgnite Pitch Competition
Africa Tech Festival hosted a thrilling live pitch competition where the continent's most promising start-ups and scale-ups battled on stage in front of hundreds of start-ups, investors and tech leaders.
Organised in partnership with Startup World Cup, powered by Pegasus, the winner, JOBJACK, was crowned on stage and selected to join the Startup World Cup Final held in San Francisco in October 2025, and compete for the USD$1,000,000 investment.
