Organization · Event Organizer
Africa Moves
Africa Moves is an international event platform that connects leaders, startups, and innovation actors from Africa and globally. They focus on organizing impactful events to promote African startups and innovation.
Overview
What Africa Moves does
What Africa Moves is
Africa Moves is an international event platform that connects leaders, startups, and innovation actors from Africa and globally. They focus on organizing impactful events to promote African startups and innovation.
How it participates in the startup ecosystem
The current public profile supports community and event host capabilities. Each capability below is shown separately so organization identity and role-specific information do not get conflated.
Operational profile
Organization status and context
Organization status describes the entity itself. Funding and program availability appear within the relevant capability profile.
- Operational status
- Active
- Organization type
- Event Organizer
- Founded
- Founded in 2017
- Approximate age
- About 9 years
- Structured capabilities
- Community · Event host
- Last reviewed
- April 3, 2026
Official channels
Find Africa Moves elsewhere
Open the official website or a supported primary organization account.
Capability profile
Africa Moves as a community
Community overview
Africa Moves is an international event platform that gathers leaders, startups, and other innovation actors from Africa and around the world. The organization focuses on organizing impactful events annually in various countries.
Community focus
Africa Moves aims to promote African startups and innovation on a global scale. They provide support through events and programs that facilitate networking, investment opportunities, and visibility for startups.
Member value
Members benefit from networking opportunities, visibility at major events like CES, and access to potential investors and partners through various tours and summits.
Membership
- Pricing models
- free
Format and cadence
- Modality
- in-person
- Schedule
- rolling-admissions
- Commitment
- light
Availability
- Membership state
- Accepting
- Next recorded event
- January 4, 2024
Audience and fit
- Audience
- Founders · Investors · Corporate Innovators
- Benefits
- network-access and media-exposure
- Program types
- community and other
- Selection criteria
- open and application
- Regions
- Global
Community activity
Events and activity
Recurring events include the Big Summit, which features thematic days focused on sectors such as tech, media, sports, and fintech; the Business Tour, connecting startups with partners and investors; the Big Intro Tour, introducing startups to stakeholders; and the Ambassadors Summit, gathering leaders to discuss innovation and entrepreneurship in Africa.
Capability profile
Africa Moves as an event host
Event focus
Africa Moves aims to promote African startups and innovation on a global scale. They provide support through events and programs that facilitate networking, investment opportunities, and visibility for startups.
Format narrative
Africa Moves organizes impactful events annually in various countries, gathering leaders, startups, and other innovation actors from Africa and around the world.
Format and cadence
- Event types
- summit and meetup
- Recurrence
- annual
- Modality
- in-person
- Startups can present
- Yes
Availability
- Registration state
- Accepting
- Next recorded event
- January 4, 2024
- Next event location
- Las Vegas, CES
Audience and fit
- Stages
- Pre-seed · Seed · Seed+
- Audience
- Founders · Investors · Corporate Innovators
- Sectors
- Media & EntertainmentFintech
- Regions
- Africa · Global
Common questions
What to know about Africa Moves
Upseed classifies Africa Moves under the Event Organizer organization type. Its current public profile includes community and event host capabilities.
Source and update disclosure
Know what this page is based on
Source basis
Public organization and program material, official websites, and structured Upseed records.
Last reviewed
April 3, 2026
Known limits
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