Flapmax, in partnership with Microsoft, announced this week the launch of the FAST Accelerator Founder Series, showcasing the work of its FAST Accelerator program graduates – 12 startup founders representing countries across Africa. The 12-week accelerator program, created to help African startups scale more sustainably, launched this year with participants chosen from 800 applicants.
The series will amplify African startups, share how founders are leveraging technology to scale sustainable operations
The event highlighted the impact of participation in the FAST Accelerator Program, with startup founders strengthening their business development, marketing, and growth plans. Together with Microsoft, Flapmax will continue to support these startup founders, including with cloud support and go-to-market, AI integration, and a host of other services.
FAST Accelerator startup participants were chosen from over 800 applications, representing diverse industries, including education, fintech, agtech, sustainability and health. The innovations developed by the startups address the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) bothering on equality, education, and poverty reduction, among others.
The FAST Accelerator Founder Series is designed to amplify African startups, share how their founders are leveraging technology to scale sustainable operations, highlight the solutions being offered by diverse entrepreneurs across Africa, expand startup brand recognition, and build a global community of brand ambassadors. The first FAST Accelerator Founder Series event, held to mark the culmination of the 12-week accelerator program, included:
Mustapha Suberu, Capsa Technology, who shared that the FAST Accelerator training program was a sort of mini-MBA
Vincent Okeke, LegitCar, who shared that participation in the FAST Program led to an uptick in brand awareness, exposure of their product, and increase in their business development activities
Ryan Panderis, Lynkwise’s founder, said working on Microsoft product integrations was impactful as much as the networking opportunity provided by Flapmax was a huge success to their business expansion throughout Africa
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Jesse Mutimba, from KaCyber said they greatly appreciated the Azure Credits and talented interns provided as part of FAST, stating that the program delivered a quicker digital transformation and much faster traction for their business at a scale larger than they initially thought they would.