Africa’s leading entrepreneurship focused philanthropy, The Tony Elumelu Foundation, launched the world’s largest digital platform for African entrepreneurs and the African entrepreneurship ecosystem – TEFConnect. Harnessing and building on the success of Africa’s largest entrepreneurship catalyst, the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme, which has attracted over 300,000 African entrepreneurs as applicants and trained and funded …
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The Launch of the World’s Largest Digital Platform for African Entrepreneurs, TEFConnect
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Top Quotes from the TEF Forum 2018
Those of us who have achieved success know that we have had a helping hand- even at times, luck- we need to create the platforms to institutionalize and democratize that luck.” – @TonyOElumelu at #TEFforum2018 Everyone who wishes well for Africa must join hands in nurturing the youth of Africa, and this is what Heirs …
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Parminder Vir
Parminder has achieved widespread recognition in the UK and across Africa and India for her achievements in the fields of film, television, and the arts; investment funding and entrepreneurship. As executive producer, non-executive director, and CEO she has the kind of energy and vision that inspires others; and a track record of creating opportunities and …
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Tony O. Elumelu, CFR
Tony O. Elumelu, C.F.R., is one of Africa’s leading investors and philanthropists. He is the Founder and Chairman of Heirs Holdings, his family owned investment company, committed to improving lives and transforming Africa, through long-terminvestments in strategic sectors of the African economy, including financial services, hospitality, power, energy, technology and healthcare. Tony is the Chairman …
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10 Exemplary TEF Entrepreneurs You Should Know About
In the four years that the Tony Elumelu Foundation has run the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme, we have produced 4,470 African entrepreneurs armed with the tools they need to thrive in the African business ecosystem. At the TEF Forum 2018, taking place at the Federal Palace Hotel on the 25th of October one of the major …
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7 Reasons Why You Can’t Afford to Miss The TEF Forum 2018
On the 25th of October 2018, all roads lead to the Federal Palace Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos as the Tony Elumelu Foundation, Africa’s leading entrepreneurship philanthropy, hosts the fourth edition of the TEF Entrepreneurship Forum: the largest gathering of African entrepreneurs and the larger entrepreneurship ecosystem. This year’s edition will unite over 5,000 entrepreneurs, global …
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Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur’s New Technology is Set to Revolutionise Patient Care in African Hospitals
What can be done to provide all Africans with easy and equal access to quality healthcare? That is the question raised by Beninese doctor Vèna Arielle Ahouansou, who when she was merely 25 created an ambitious new app called Kea Medicals. As the head of her start-up with the same name, she currently leads a …
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The TEF Forum 2018
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4th Annual Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Forum Announced for 25th October 2018
5,000 Entrepreneurs to be welcomed in Lagos for Africa’s largest entrepreneurial convening Africa’s private-sector-led entrepreneurship-focused philanthropic organisation, the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), has announced October 25, 2018, as the date for its 4thannual TEF Entrepreneurship Forum. The largest gathering of African entrepreneurs and the broader entrepreneurship ecosystem will unite over 5,000 entrepreneurs, global investors, leaders …
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TEF Alumni’s Business, WaraCake Expands to 23 Nigerian States & Launches Food Delivery Service
Launched in 2015, WaraCake is an online marketplace for independent bakers and confectionery makers, aiming to make it easier for customers to purchase their cakes and have them delivered. The startup raised an undisclosed amount of funding from former Jumia and Konga executive Onyeka Akumah shortly after launching, and in 2016 was selected to join the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship …
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