The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) has announced the opening of the application portal for its 2025 Entrepreneurship Programmes.

It urged aspiring and existing entrepreneurs from across Africa to apply for world-class training, expert mentoring, and non-refundable seed capital funding to scale their businesses.

The leading champion of entrepreneurship listed the various programmes.

According to it, TEF’s flagship entrepreneurship programme is open to all entrepreneurs across Africa with innovative business ideas or existing businesses not older than five years.

It placed special emphasis on businesses leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and green initiatives and 18 year age limit for applicants.

The IYBA-WE4A Entrepreneurship Programme launched by the TEF in partnership with the European Union (EU) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für, with bias for women, stands for Investing in Young Businesses in Africa.

“Women Entrepreneurship for Africa and is exclusively for women entrepreneurs with green business ideas or existing green businesses in Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Cameroon, Kenya, Mozambique, Malawi, and Togo. Applicants must be at least 18 years old, with businesses not exceeding five years in operation,” it said.

The Aguka Ideation Programme is a partnership with the Tony Elumelu Foundation, UNDP Rwanda and the Rwandan Ministry of Youths and Arts to support young Rwandan entrepreneurs between 18 -30 with business ideas with a seed capital of $3000, with the aim of nurturing and developing innovative concepts into viable enterprises.

The TEF directed that application should be submitted through TEF’s proprietary digital hub – TEFConnect, between January 1 and March 1.