OUR WHY
Africa’s future depends on its talents. By supporting them, we are investing for a Better Africa.
OUR STORY
Africa was calling us back home. And we paid heed to her call.
ACCEL54 is the baby of two passionate Africans - two business executives turned entrepreneurs.
Born in Ivory Coast, each one of us spent more than a quarter century in Europe and North America. Prior to co-founding a company in the pharmaceutical industry, we worked for a variety of large telecoms, pharmaceutical and IT companies in North America.
And after growing our company and training a new team of managers to take care of it, we heard the pressing call to come back home – to build Africa. The call came at the right time as we were figuring out the best ways to create more positive impact in the world. We then decided to come back home in order to share our entrepreneurial skills with young talents and support innovators across Africa.
ACCEL54 – committed to supporting Africa’s Innovators
Although Africa is full of talented minds and hands, there aren’t enough support systems to guide them in their push to transform potentially innovative ideas into useful products and profitable businesses. We created ACCEL54 to fill such a gap.
We are committed to contributing our fair share in building, sustaining and continuously improving Africa’s innovation ecosystems.