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Grants, VC funds, accelerators, and competitions for African entrepreneurs.
Grants, VC funds, accelerators, and competitions for African entrepreneurs.
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$1M-$50M
The Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi) supports women entrepreneurs, especially women-owned or women-led small and medium enterprises in developing economies, through expanded access to finance, capacity building, networks, mentorship, and market connections. The program focuses on closing the gender finance gap and supporting business growth and job creation. Existing data indicates typical funding sizes of $1 million to $50 million, with activity across 83 countries and a Pan-African geographic focus.
Access to finance
Supports women entrepreneurs by scaling up access to financial products and services.
Capacity building
Builds capacity for women entrepreneurs to help them grow their businesses.
Networks and mentorship
Expands networks, offers mentorship, and creates connections for women entrepreneurs.
Market access
Provides opportunities to connect with domestic and global markets.
Closing the gender finance gap
WE Finance Code is a multi-stakeholder, systems change effort to expand the number and type of institutions working to close financing gaps for women entrepreneurs.
Job creation
We-Fi supports women entrepreneurs as engines of job creation, helping them grow businesses that employ others and strengthen communities.
Women entrepreneur access to capital
Technical assistance, policy support, co-investment facilitation
Long approval timelines. Heavy documentation requirements. May require government co-sign.
Applicants should clearly show that the business is women-owned or women-led and based in a developing economy. It helps to emphasize how financing would support growth, job creation, and stronger access to markets, networks, or business support services.
2015
Active Since
Yes
Deploying
Multiple development projects and fund commitments