GTB SHE LEADS AFRICA ACCELERATOR APPLICATION:

The SLA Accelerator is a 3-month program designed to identify, support and fund the next generation of Nigeria’s brightest female entrepreneurs. Apply now for your chance to get one step closer to being one of Nigeria’s most prominent business women.

Click here if you're already sold and want to apply now: https://vc4a.com/she-leads-africa/she-leads-africa-accelerator/apply


Click here to see examples of entrepreneurs from our other Demo Days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6WXVZT7oB0

Are you eligible to apply?

- Business with at least one woman as a shareholder between the ages of 18-35
- Business must have launched. Ideas only on paper will not be accepted
- Business must be based in Nigeria
- Business cannot have raised more than $50,000 in external funding
- Business should be less than 3 years old

Click here if you're convinced and want to apply now: https://vc4a.com/she-leads-africa/she-leads-africa-accelerator/apply

Why should you apply?

Media attention to raise your local + international profile

Direct access to Nigeria’s best business minds

Opportunity for N2M investment

Opportunity to pitch to a room full of investors

3-months of hands on support from a team of experts

Still need convincing? Here’s a message from our co-founder:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFIQ-s81ZYg


How do you apply?

Step 1: Check our eligibility requirements to make sure you can apply.
Step 2: Review the application form.
Step 3: Study all the resources that SLA has created to give you guidance on how to put together a winning application.
Step 4: Attend an info or training session during the week of April 11. These are being held in person in Lagos and Abuja or online.
Step 5: Get your application materials together and press send before the May 31 deadline.

SLA Accelerator is in partnership with the Work in Progress! Alliance and Guaranty Trust Bank

The Work in Progress! Alliance is focused on unlocking the economic potential of young women and men in Egypt, Nigeria and Somalia. The project aims to enable them to generate sustainable and living incomes – by finding regular employment or starting enterprises. Alliance partners include Oxfam, VC4Africa and Butterfly Works.

GT Bank
Guaranty Trust Bank is recognized as one of the most profitable and well managed financial institutions in Africa for providing quality service, ethics, professionalism, integrity, innovation and internationally accepted corporate governance standards.

SLA Accelerator is also one of 16 global incubators and accelerators selected as a Village Capital Community

Village Capital
VilCap Communities enables anyone, anywhere to use peer-selected investment to support entrepreneurs within their communities. In 2016, each VilCap Community will be running its own entrepreneur training program and investing in two ventures using Village Capital's peer selection methodology.

DEADLINE: 31ST MAY 2016

SOURCE: http://sheleadsafrica.org/index.php/accelerator/