Applications now accepted for latest e-Track program at UCT GSB Solution Space, Ayoba

To support startups throughout the continent, UCT GSB Solution Space and ayoba have opened applications for the most recent iteration of the e-Track program.

Operated by UCT GSB Solution Space, a specialized center of the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business, the e-Track program provides high-impact entrepreneurs with early-stage venture acceleration and capacity-building.

The two-phase e-Track program is funded by ayoba, a super-app designed to help users reduce the digital divide in Africa while speeding up the digitisation and expansion of small businesses.

The Venture Launch program, which is suitable for participants who have or wish to develop both for-profit and non-profit scale-ups, is phase one. Its main objective is to validate the venture concept.

A UCT GSB certificate and an invitation to pitch for phase two, where only 15 startups are chosen, are awarded to all who successfully complete phase one. A pitch day, where ventures present to a room full of possible investors, venture capitalists, and capacity builders who could help the startup reach even greater heights, marks the culmination of phase two, which aims to accelerate the development of the validated venture.

Phase one applications are accepted through June 30.