Amazon AWS 2023 FinTech Africa Accelerator For African Fintechs

Published: 24 Mar 2023 1,132 views

Join the online AWS FinTech Africa Accelerator powered by AWS Startup Loft Accelerator to take part in an equity-free program focused on supporting early stage startups with technology, product development, go-to-market advice and getting you funding ready.

The AWS FinTech Africa Accelerator is an online and equity-free 10-week program that leverages the best of Amazon’s infrastructure and partner network to support pre-seed and seed stage FinTech startups developing their projects in Africa and beyond in the following categories:

• Open & Embedded Finance
• Big Data & AIML
• Blockchain & Decentralised Finance
• FinTech-as-a-service
• Financial inclusion & Sustainability
• Other

Amazon FinTech Africa Accelerator Program

Application Deadline	April 27, 2023
Type	Entrepreneurs
Sponsor	Amazon
Gender	Men and Women

Benefits of Amazon FinTech Africa Accelerator Program

Participating startups will join AWS’ Activate program which will provide founders with up to $25K USD in Activate Credits, in addition to a many other services. Founders will also take part in a series of industry expert-led workshops and one-on-one sessions designed to address the specific challenges and opportunities each startup faces. 

Requirements for Amazon FinTech Africa Accelerator Program

All startups with FinTech specialization located in Africa can take part in the Accelerator.

There are 3 scenarios acceptable to take a part in the Accelerator:

• Startup will build the Project on AWS infrastructure using at least one of AWS services,
• Project was built before on AWS and is live,
• Project was built before on any other platform and will be migrated to AWS during the Acceleration program. In case of migration from on-premise, hosting or other cloud platforms, AWS has dedicated migration programs for the support that Participants can use. (for special migration program contact us at [email protected])

Selection Process

• Applications Close: 27th Apr, 2023

• Cohort Announcement: 18th May, 2023

• Cohort Start date: 5th Jun, 2023

• Holiday break: 1st Aug - 1st Sep, 2023

• Cohort end date: 18th Sep, 2023

Application Deadline

April 27, 2023

How to Apply

Interested and qualified? Go to Amazon on app.vestbee.com to apply