Redesigning how development solutions are built, tested and scaled across Africa.
Three interconnected programmes designed to redesign how development solutions are built, tested and scaled across Africa.
Structured support for early-stage African founders — from validated idea through to commercially viable, investor-ready venture. Delivered through the Ignite! sprint and Catalyst Commons community learning series.
Co-designed corporate social responsibility programmes that connect businesses with high-impact, community-led innovation across Africa — moving beyond cheque-writing to genuine, evidence-based partnership.
Working alongside governments, DFIs, and foundations to design, rigorously test, and scale systemic solutions to Africa's most pressing development challenges — with evidence at the centre.
A free, 9-week programme for early-stage African founders building solutions that improve affordability and access to essential services.
Ignite! is a free, structured programme that takes early-stage African founders from idea to investor-ready concept. Through four progressive phases over 9 weeks, founders build the evidence, skills, and network needed to launch solutions that improve affordability and access across Africa.
Fully grant-funded · Free to participate · No equity taken
A free monthly learning series for African founders, practitioners, and investors — interrogating the hardest problems in essential-service markets and building the connections that move solutions forward.
Every programme produces evidence at three levels — for the people we serve, the planet we operate on, and the markets we are trying to shift.