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BIC Africa
BIC Africa is a regional network funded by the European Union, supporting business incubators in Angola, Ethiopia, Madagascar, and Somalia. It focuses on enhancing entrepreneurship and empowering youth and women through capacity building.
Overview
What BIC Africa does
What BIC Africa is
BIC Africa is a regional network funded by the European Union, supporting business incubators in Angola, Ethiopia, Madagascar, and Somalia. It focuses on enhancing entrepreneurship and empowering youth and women through capacity building.
How it participates in the startup ecosystem
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Operational profile
Organization status and context
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- Operational status
- Active
- Organization type
- Community
- Founded
- Founded in 2021
- Approximate age
- About 5 years
- Structured capabilities
- Community
- Last reviewed
- April 25, 2026
Official channels
Find BIC Africa elsewhere
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Capability profile
BIC Africa as a community
Community overview
BIC Africa is a regional network established to support business incubators in Eastern and Southern Africa. It is funded by the European Union and focuses on stimulating entrepreneurship and fostering innovative start-ups, particularly among youth and women.
Community focus
BIC Africa provides various services to selected business incubators, including capacity-building facilitation, enhancing connections between European and African innovation hubs, raising awareness about the challenges faced by incubators, and establishing a quality certification label for African incubators.
Member value
Members benefit from capacity-building initiatives, enhanced networking opportunities, and access to resources aimed at improving the quality and effectiveness of business incubators.
Membership
- Pricing models
- free
Format and cadence
- Modality
- online
- Schedule
- rolling-admissions
- Commitment
- light
Availability
- Membership state
- Accepting
Audience and fit
- Audience
- Builders · Founders
- Benefits
- network-access and mentorship
- Program types
- community and training
- Selection criteria
- open
- Regions
- Africa · Southern Africa
Community activity
Events and activity
BIC Africa organizes various events, including the BIC Africa Annual Gathering for networking and sharing insights, the 7th EU-Africa Business Forum 2022 focused on enhancing business relations, and the Africa-Europe D4D Hub Multi-Stakeholder Forum for discussing collaboration between Africa and Europe.
Notable members
Notable incubators supported by BIC Africa include 1888 EC, R&D Ethiopia, iceaddis, GrowthAfrica, and HarHub.
Common questions
What to know about BIC Africa
Upseed classifies BIC Africa under the Community organization type. Its current public profile includes community capabilities.
Source and update disclosure
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Source basis
Public organization and program material, official websites, and structured Upseed records.
Last reviewed
April 25, 2026
Known limits
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