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Weekly Opportunities updates

Happy Monday women entrepreneurs!

We are at it again; Sharing opportunities that will help you elevate your business to the next level. Please follow the links below to check out opportunities we have compiled you this week

Are you seeking to raise capital for business expansion?

To all Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) operating within Southern Africa that are either already exporting or interested in exporting products to South Africa and/or to the United States by leveraging the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA).

In partnership with USAID Southern Africa Trade and Investment Hub (USAID TradeHub), the AWIEF 8-week program will increase the investor, export readiness and competitiveness of 100 SMEs in the Southern African countries of Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zambia. The program will help strengthen the governance, regulatory compliance and risk management capabilities of your company.

Apply for a 12-month technology and entrepreneurship Training Program. MEST is thrilled to get back in the groove of recruitment and officially open up applications for the Class of 2023. Successful applicants will gain access to world-class education in software development, business and communication skills from MEST’s campus in Accra, Ghana.


Training is done along with mentorship and networking sessions with leading industry experts and business executives from all over the world. At the end of the year-long program, all the Entrepreneurs-in-training form startups with co-founders within their cohort and pitch their business idea for up to $100,000 in seed funding, business incubation, and a lifetime of support from MEST Africa’s global community of experts and founders.


Are you the founder of an early-stage company that is developing solutions to modernize manufacturing and advance sustainable production? Help make the factory of the future a reality sooner, and jump-start your startup by getting your product or service in front of the Toyota Ventures team. They are looking to invest in promising companies that are creating technologies to enable smarter, flexible, connected factories that will amplify people and improve efficiency and sustainability.

If that sounds like your startup, the 2022 call for innovation is an opportunity to receive between $500,000 and $2 million in venture capital funding from Toyota Ventures through our Frontier Fund or Climate Fund. In addition, we’re partnering with Toyota’s Manufacturing Project Innovation Center (MPIC) and Toyota Research Institute, and selected startups might also get a chance to collaborate with Toyota on a proof-of-concept project.

The Jack Ma Foundation's Africa's Business Heroes (ABH) competition is looking for heroes like you. Stand a chance of winning a share of $1.5 million training and global publicity. The yearly competition identifies Africa’s Business Heroes and accepts applications till June 21st, 2022. Follow the link below to learn more about the key benefits, eligibility criteria, and the application process!



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