Delivering the opening keynote at ScaleUp Africa’s IGNITE Entrepreneurship Growth Festival, Chair and CEO of Africa.com, Teresa Clarke shared that ”Africa supports over 400 companies that generate revenues over $1bn. Einstein Ntim, CEO of Global StartUp Ecosystem, the main sponsors of ScaleUp Africa’s Festival: ”ScaleUp Africa has truly set the bar for curating such impactful virtual international convening of the entrepreneurship ecosystem. We facilitate deeper engagement with corporations, foundations and DFIs to promote the growth of our most cutting edge small businesses.” Amma Gyampo, Co-Founder, ScaleUp Africa. New Breed Of Black & African Business LeadersThe Festival attracted over 3000 registered attendees and streaming viewers including active Investors that shared their insights about their current deals in Africa during the Pandemic. Support organisations like ScaleUp Africa play an important part in the global, African and Diaspora conversation around bridging the racial wealth gap and the need to provide better, longer term support for Black and African Entrepreneurs.

Source: The North Africa Journal August 20, 2020 10:07 UTC