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Financing Your 
Venture

Africa tech is on the rise and an increasing number of funds are dedicated to financing ventures across Africa. However, practices have proved to be very different between investors, lacking transparency, creating frustrations, and a waste of time. As a collective, we are committed to creating common practices and tools.

Due Dilligence Checklist

What can you expect as an entrepreneur during the due diligence process? As a collective, we propose a standard list of requirements to help entrepreneurs be ready 

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Standardise Term Sheets

SA-adapted term sheets with explanations and recommendations from DCA members 

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SAFE & ESOP Guidance

Post-money Safe notes and step-by-step ESOP setup guide for African founders. 

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Capitalisation table

Open-source cap table template with post-moeny SAFE instruments and dilution modeling. 

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Africa open investor repository

590+ Africa-focused investors across 43 countries 12 sectors. Filter by stage, focus, impact mandate with full investor profiles. 

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Incubators & accelerators 

Directory of tech hubs, incubators and accelerators across Africa wiht specifications and assets. 

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AI prompt guide 

A practical recipe for engineering effective prompts, treat chatGPT as a reasoning engine , not a search engine. 

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Governance toolkit

Best practice for venture-backed companies, founders, investors and directors. 

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