Apply for MIT Sloan’s Foundry Fellowship!

Have you built a successful, innovation-driven business across Africa… and now feel ready for your next big leap? The Foundry Fellowship, run by MIT Sloan’s Kuo Sharper Centre for Prosperity & Entrepreneurship, might be your ideal springboard.

Pic courtesy ​of Kenneth C. Zirkel

Who is This For?

This selective, eight-month cohort program is crafted for Africa-based founders who have:

1. Scaled a startup with real-world traction
2. Reached an inflection point in your journey
3. A vision to expand impact, whether by growing your business, investing in the ecosystem, boosting policy change, or launching support ventures across the continent. 

Only 10–15 fellows are selected annually, creating an intimate, high-impact cohort where each member is both a learner and a leader.

What to Expect

• Personal leadership seminars led by MIT faculty
• Systems-thinking frameworks tailored for ecosystem builders
• Ecosystem tours across Africa, including Nairobi and Cairo, to immerse in regional innovation systems
• A peer-driven community of high-achieving African founders and thought leaders

Why it Matters

The Foundry Fellowship is more than executive education; it’s a continental leadership forge. Alumni go on to:

• Launch new VC funds or impact ventures
• Help shape key innovation institutions
• Expand across borders with ecosystem-building efforts

It’s Africa writing its next chapter through transformation, not transaction.

How to Join

• Apply by: July 6, 2025  
  
• Open to: Founders at transition points, starting new ventures, scaling, or shifting into ecosystem leadership

If you're an African entrepreneur at a pivotal moment, poised to shape ecosystems, invest in others, or scale across borders—this is your moment. The Foundry Fellowship offers world-class mentorship, peer collaboration, and ecosystem immersion to help you step fully into regional leadership.

Let MIT help you go from founder to force of change.

Apply or nominate someone by July 6, 2025 HERE