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Tech African Women (TAW)

Project Overview
The Tech African Women (TAW) is a program dedicated to building a strong female-led tech Startup pipeline and community in Africa, powered by UNECA and implemented by Betacube. 
Target countries: 
Ethiopia, Senegal, Tanzania, Tunisia
Objectives:
  • Empower female founders to leverage their skills to build strong tech startups from scratch

  • Accelerate the transformation of project ideas and prototypes into validated business models, ready for market & investment

  • Build communities and alliances to aggregate opportunities for women entrepreneurs and maximize their impact

Key results:
  • Intensive 3-day training boot camps & pitching competition held across four target countries.

  • Two months online incubation program for the best 8 startups.

  • Final pitching ceremony held in Ethiopia where winning projects received seed grants.