AFRICAN FUTURE
SKILLS INDABA
Investor Pass

Free for investors who invest.

For anyone with an active mandate to invest in JET skills, fintech, critical minerals, climate finance, agritech, healthtech, edtech, green, digital or creative ventures. One free pass per firm.

40places, capped
1free pass per firm
5working days to a decision
3+pre-matched Deal Room meetings

What's included

  • Days 1 to 3 and a delegate pack
  • Pre-booked places in a selection of expert Value Chain Forums
  • The AFSI Global Investment Chamber
  • One Day Three session of the AFSI Global Human Capital Chamber
  • The Investment Lounge, matchmaking and reserved Showcase seating
  • Coffee, light refreshments and a complimentary lunch every day
  • A pre-vetted pipeline: 12 Pathfinders ventures scored on scale and on jobs created, profiled in the AFSI Investor Guide before the Indaba
  • Four National Skills Pathways: government-backed programmes with co-funding already in place, pitched on a common template and scored live
  • The Pathfinders Deal Room, with at least three pre-matched 20-minute meetings
  • All four Investment Chamber sessions, including the Evidence Fireside on where skills money flows, the Capital Pathways panel and the Compact pledge round
  • Named pledges entered in the Africa Future Skills Investment Compact, announced at the Public Session
  • The chance to be one of the eight most active investors invited to the Commitment Reception, and eligibility for the Compact Breakfast deal tables
  • The VIP diary and founding membership of the Network

Who can apply

  • Venture capital and private equity investors
  • Impact investors and impact funds
  • Angel investors and angel networks
  • Development finance institutions and the investment teams of multilateral development banks
  • Family offices
  • Corporate venture capital arms
  • Blended finance, outcome and social impact bond funders
  • Climate, green and sustainable finance funds
  • Foundations making programme-related investments
  • Accelerator and incubator investment teams
  • Pension, provident and sovereign fund officers with a skills or climate mandate
  • Crowdfunding and alternative finance platforms
  • Private-sector investment teams of multilateral banks, such as the IFC, the African Development Bank's private sector window, the AIIB and the New Development Bank
  • Bilateral development finance institutions
  • African and national DFIs
  • Climate fund investment officers

How to qualify

  • Apply through the vetting form below with your firm, your fund mandate and a recent investment or programme in the sector.
  • The AFSI team checks every application and the Investment Chamber chair decides within 5 working days.
  • There is no self-registration: approved investors receive their pass from the AFSI team.
  • Once 40 places are approved, new applicants join a waitlist or buy an Industry & Employer ticket.
  • Further colleagues from the same firm pay the Industry & Employer rate.

The participation commitment

Applicants agree to this on the application form, and it is a condition of the free pass:

  • Attend the Pathfinders Showcase
  • Score the National Skills Pathways and Pathfinders pitches in the event app
  • Take at least three matchmaking meetings at the Indaba
  • Hold follow-up meetings within 60 days with the two Investor-Ranked Pathways
  • Firms that don't meet the commitment lose free-pass eligibility for the next Indaba

How vetting works

  1. You apply through the form below. It goes straight to the AFSI team in our registration system.
  2. We check your firm, mandate and track record. The Investment Chamber chair decides within five working days, and we may ask for a short call.
  3. If you're approved, we issue your free pass to the email you applied with. There's no self-registration and no code to enter.
  4. If you aren't approved, or the places are taken, we tell you, and you can buy the paid ticket that fits you.
Apply

Apply for an Investor Pass.

Tell us about your firm, your mandate and a recent investment or programme in skills, climate, green, digital or creative ventures. One free pass per firm; colleagues pay the Industry & Employer rate.