{"id":774,"date":"2023-08-03T15:36:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T15:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.afrilabs.com\/?p=774"},"modified":"2023-08-03T20:24:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T20:24:42","slug":"catalytic-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.afrilabs.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/03\/catalytic-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalytic Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Catalytic Africa is a cross-stakeholder initiative of AfriLabs in conjunction with African Business Angels Network&nbsp; (ABAN) that aims to strengthen entrepreneurs, startups, hubs and angel investors, while delivering impact results to institutional funders.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp; fund raises grants from various institutional partners to add to a pool. This pool serves as a matching or co-investment fund to encourage investment in viable AfriLabs-affiliated startups by verified angel investors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The success of this initiative will lead to:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>More African startups that are better funded and are better monitored<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hubs that are able to attract and retain quality startups and a viable hub sustainability model<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Angel investors who are able to invest in a larger portfolio, de-risked significantly by the monitoring and reporting from the hubs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Better visibility, transparency and objective impact reporting for the funders.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Overall stronger, more sustainable African startup ecosystem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-essential-blocks-button\"><div class=\"eb-parent-wrapper eb-parent-eb-button-bkrqpfb \"><div class=\"eb-button-wrapper eb-button-alignment eb-button-bkrqpfb\"><div class=\"eb-button\"><a class=\"eb-button-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.catalytic-africa.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Visit Catalytic Africa<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catalytic Africa is a cross-stakeholder initiative of AfriLabs in conjunction with African Business Angels Network&nbsp; (ABAN) that aims to strengthen entrepreneurs, startups, hubs and angel investors, while delivering impact results [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":[],"_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.afrilabs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.afrilabs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.afrilabs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.afrilabs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.afrilabs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/new.afrilabs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"https:\/\/new.afrilabs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.afrilabs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.afrilabs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.afrilabs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.afrilabs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}