The Tony Elumelu Foundation is the leading philanthropy empowering a new generation of African entrepreneurs, driving poverty eradication, catalysing job creation across all 54 African countries, and increasing women economic empowerment. Since the launch of the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme in 2015, the Foundation has granted over 2.5 million young Africans with access to trainings on its digital hub, TEFConnect, and disbursed over USD$100 million in direct funding to more than 21,000 young African women and men, who have collectively created over 800,000 direct and indirect jobs, and generated over $4.2billion in revenue. The Foundation’s mission is rooted in Africapitalism, which positions the private sector, and most importantly entrepreneurs, as the catalyst for the social and economic development of the African continent.