London Stock Exchange welcomes Africarena, Africa’s Tech Ecosystem Accelerator

Today, London Stock Exchange welcomed AfricArena, Africa’s premium tech ecosystem accelerator to participate in the open market ceremony, coinciding with AfricArena’s inaugural one-day AfricArena London Summit designed to showcase the best of Africa’s top tech startups to interested investors.

AfricArena’s presence at the London Stock Exchange signifies a seismic shift, highlighting Africa as an attractive investment destination through sharing the success stories of tech startups who are bringing innovative solutions aimed at solving pressing global challenges into the global marketplace.

The team celebrating on the balcony at LSEG during the welcome ceremony.

Founded in 2017, AfricArena’s vision is to be the premier dealflow platform for startups, investors, corporates and tech ecosystem players to accelerate the African tech ecosystem and foster investment in African tech entrepreneurs across the African continent. Its mission is to connect founders with investors and corporates, strengthen international traction of Africa’s tech startups, and promote the African tech and investment ecosystem to attract investors to Africa. This is achieved through bringing together key players in Africa’s fast-growing tech and investment ecosystem at the AfricArena Summits and related side events to build and strengthen Africa’s fast-growing tech and investment ecosystem.

Startups that have showcased their highly scalable ventures at AfricArena, have to date, collectively raised over $800 million in capital. 15k Attendees Annually and has distributed $3.7M in grants and benefits. This track record makes AfricArena an attractive platform for Africa’s top investors looking for world class talent to invest in and partner with.

Find out more about AfricArena.

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