The Angola Founder Institute, the local chapter of the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, is proud to announce the newest Alumni from the Angola 2025 program.
After meticulous selection process and intense four months of aggressive business-building sprints, constant evaluation, and feedback from investors and mentors, just 10 companies were able to make it through.
Each of these Founders have demonstrated a high level of perseverance and creativity, and their businesses have been thoroughly vetted and supported by a panel of Angola's top startup experts and investors.
And now, without further ado, we present the Alumni of the Angola program:
- ECO-SELECTA - A digital marketplace that connects waste generators with recyclers, providing a safe and efficient way to dispose of waste while solving environmental, public health, and economic issues through sustainable practices and environmental education.
- Wongo - A startup with African roots, developed by young Angolans, aiming to transform education and generate wealth by empowering urban and rural youth through opportunities for emerging entrepreneurship, all in alignment with the SDGs.
- Biorec - A startup that models and produces orthopedic prosthetics and orthoses from ocean-recycled plastic, promoting mobility and social equality by providing affordable prosthetics to people with disabilities.
- Ukembu - História trançadas pelo caminho da personalidade - An online braiding course taught by African instructors for the Brazilian market, reconnecting cultural roots by offering authentic African hairstyling techniques to Brazilian consumers.
- Mirabilis Game Studio - An independent game development studio that creates immersive games like The Chronicles of Nzinga Mbande that celebrate Angolan culture, blending entertainment with history, mythology, and cultural education.
- Nkaka Marisco - A sustainable fishing startup that works with artisanal fishermen in Nzeto, aiming to establish a fish processing plant to reduce waste, promote environmental education, and foster community development.
- L&L engenharia, Lda - A startup that develops innovative agro-industrial products to address industry-specific challenges, aiming to drive sustainable development and positively impact diverse communities.
- Kula Kids - A parental education platform focused on early childhood, providing families with tools to support children's physical, mental, social, and emotional development, while promoting sustainability, reducing healthcare costs.
- JJinovações - A startup that produces organic animal feed from larvae, offering essential nutrients for farmers while contributing to poverty reduction through affordable, environmentally friendly solutions and training for sustainable agriculture and aquaculture practices.
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ROSCO EDUTEC - SERVIÇOS DE TECNOLOGIA EDUCATIVA (SU), LDA - An interactive, AI-powered platform that offers easy access to primary school textbooks in Angola, enhancing student engagement, promoting 21st-century skills, and ensuring up-to-date content while reducing costs and improving accessibility for learners and educators.
The Angola 2025 program would not have been possible without help, because it truly takes a city to raise a startup.
Join us at Angola Founder Institute Graduation Event on October 10th.
Angola Local Directors
We would first like to thank the Local Directors of the Angola Founder Institute: Carla Tavares, Dimonekene Ditutala (Founder & Partner, Renascença Digital, Lda), Haymee Perez Cogle (Local Leader , Founder Institute Luanda), Silvio Almada (CEO, Angola Internet Association ). Our Local Leaders play an incredibly important role in building the local Founder Institute program, and creating an environment and network in Angola that is conducive to building to great companies.
In addition, the Angola 2025 program was supported by some of Angola's top technology organizations, including:
Some of Angola’s top startup mentors helped our founders in the program, including:
In the Founder Institute's pre-seed accelerator program, early-stage entrepreneurs and teams build their business alongside a critical support network of local startup experts that share equity in their success, and through a structured and challenging business-building process that has helped alumni raise over $1.85BN.
After Graduation, the new Angola Founder Institute Portfolio Companies now have a fast-growing company that has been fully validated by experienced startup founders, with access to the Founder Institute's global network and post-graduate support programs to continue building their business.
Leaders of the world’s fastest-growing startups have used the Founder Institute to raise funding, building a co-founding team, get into seed-accelerators, generate traction, recruit a team, build a product, transition from employee to entrepreneur, and more. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 200+ cities and 100+ countries, the Founder Institute’s mission is to Globalize Silicon Valley and empower talented and motivated entrepreneurs to build companies that will create one million new jobs.
The next Angola Founder Institute program is being planned now. If you are interested in being notified when applications open, visit FI.co/apply/angola.
Alumni of the Founder Institute are creating some of the world's fastest growing startups, having raised over $1.85BN in funding, and building products people love across over 200 cities worldwide.
See the most recent news from our Grads at FI.co/news, or learn more about their stories at FI.co/graduates.
