Africa 100K
100,000 businesses. Built by Africa's graduates and women.
Join us to launch them, one country at a time.
One place per country. All six places are open now.
Real businesses. Built here.
Every founder launches a website and online store of their own. These are the kinds of businesses they build, from charities and churches to cakes, crafts and travel.
We all see the need. We feel the pain. The talent is here. Africa has already proved its resilience. Now is the moment to act.
We invite organisations, governments, charities and community leaders who are ready to act for their people to come to us directly. Support moves without delay, and it reaches the people it is meant for: a social impact programme built for community economic development.
Educated, ready and waiting.
Across the region, young people have studied hard and graduated ready to work. But too few jobs are waiting for them. As a youth entrepreneurship programme and a graduate entrepreneurship programme in one, Africa 100K puts the tools in their hands to build businesses.
We cannot educate a generation and then abandon it.
young Africans look for work every year.5
wage jobs are created each year.5
young people a year are left without a wage job.5
What happens to the rest?
Most take insecure, informal work: 72 in every 100 young adult workers in Sub Saharan Africa. Many find no work at all: 53 million young people are not in work, education or training.1 Africa 100K gives them a third way: a business of their own. It is a job creation programme that starts with the founder.
Women are already building.
Sub Saharan Africa has the highest rate of women starting businesses of any region. Most do it without the tools, customers and support they need. Women led business support is women's economic empowerment in action: give them those, and they grow, for their families and their communities.
The will is there. The support exists. Together, we can make sure it reaches the ground.
Start with 2,000. Grow to 100,000.
Every programme starts with 2,000 founders, per country or per organisation: 1,000 graduates and 1,000 women. When a cohort completes, the next begins. More organisations and countries join, and cohort by cohort it grows to 100,000.
Illustration: 50 cohorts of 2,000 founders.
From kit to first sale.
Each founder receives a kit, gets connected, learns the tools and launches a website. Then comes the first sale. A complete enterprise development programme: support stays with them all the way, and your dashboard shows every step.
Machinence
LiveChoose a path.
A digital skills training programme for every kind of business. Each founder picks a path, learns it step by step and launches a business of their own.
Every path covers finding customers, pricing, getting paid and growing.
The journey.
Set up, launch and first sales within four months. Then two years of growth, with training and support all the way.
Set up
Kits, data and accounts ready.
Train and launch
Websites and stores live. First sales.
Run, scale and earn
Growing, with training and support.
Your programme. Your dashboard.
For every organisation we work with, we build its own dashboard around its own indicators and goals, open whenever it's needed.
Example figures, for illustration only. Impact measurement and reporting is built in from the first day.
What a partner gets.
A complete, results based programme with your name on it, live in days, with results you can see and share.
Real businesses, jobs and incomes for the people you set out to help.
Configured in days. First sales within four months.
Impact measurement and reporting on your own dashboard, open any time. Your programme data belongs to you.
An MSME development programme that grows from 2,000 founders, cohort by cohort, towards 100,000.
A programme branded with your name and ours, from the first day.
We celebrate the difference you make, together with the founders you helped.
One Founding Partner per country. Once a place is taken, it closes for a couple of years.
Why partners join.
We share the same purpose: support that reaches people, and results that last. As your implementation partner in Africa, we answer the problems every funder knows.
Support doesn't reach the ground.
Kits, data, training and tools go straight into founders' hands.
Real outcomes are hard to see.
Your dashboard shows every business, sale and job, month by month.
The pressure to prove results.
Results recorded through Machinence, ready to share with your board and your public.
Why now
The talent is ready and the tools exist. Every month we wait is another cohort of graduates without work. And each country has one place: the partners who act first will lead.
Banks
The next generation of business customers: accounts, savings, credit, foreign exchange and trade finance. SME banking value added services that go beyond banking: non financial services for SMEs that drive SME customer acquisition, financial inclusion and a women's banking programme with real results.
Governments
Real businesses and jobs, not just reports. A youth employment programme for Africa that is also an MSME development programme.
Development institutions, foundations and charities
Proof that support reached the people it was meant for. An enterprise development programme for women entrepreneurs, with a gender lens investing view of every result.
Companies
A CSR programme for Africa with outcomes you can report: a social impact programme your ESG report can stand behind.
Community leaders
A youth livelihood programme for your people now, with support that arrives without delay.
Live in days.
Our technology and business strategy team configures your programme, branding and reporting in days, not months.
After the programme.
Participants continue on discounted plans with ongoing support, and we keep listening to them on the ground.
Six countries first.
We start in Sub Saharan Africa and grow from there: youth entrepreneurship and SME support in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa. Each country has one place, for one Founding Partner.
Become a Founding Partner.
100,000 businesses start with one decision. Make it yours.
One place per country. Once it's taken, it closes, and it won't reopen for a couple of years. We'll reply within one working day.
Questions, answered.
How is participants' data protected?
Under UK GDPR and the data protection laws of each country we work in. Your programme data belongs to you.
Who can take part?
Graduates and women entrepreneurs in the partner's country, on their own smartphone or a device arranged with the partner.
Who can sponsor the program?
Banks, governments, development institutions, foundations, companies and community leaders. Whether you call it a programme or a program, every one is co branded and reported on its own dashboard.
Can we start as an organisation, not a country?
Yes. We work with countries and with organisations. Every programme starts with 2,000 founders and grows from there.
What happens after the programme?
Participants continue on discounted plans with ongoing support, and we keep listening to them on the ground.
How quickly can we start?
Our technology and business strategy team configures your programme, branding and reporting in days, not months.
1. International Labour Organization, Global Employment Trends for Youth 2024: Sub Saharan Africa (August 2024), data for 2023.
2. Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, 2018/2019 Women's Entrepreneurship Report, pages 8 and 36: adult women starting or running a new business.
3. D'Espallier, Guérin and Mersland, "Women and repayment in microfinance: a global analysis", World Development, 2011: 350 microfinance institutions in 70 countries.
4. Ataraxis, Global Outsourcing Talent Index 2026: South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and Uganda among the top 25 of 193 countries.
5. World Bank, State of the Africa Region: Powering Job Creation in Africa (October 2025), from Africa's Pulse, October 2025: "Every year, 11 million young Africans seek work, but just 3 million wage jobs are created." 8 million is the difference.
