TUACH CHIOL

The biggest funding gap in African tech isn't Series A.

It's pre-seed.

The moment between 'I have an idea' and 'I have a product.'

Fuzé by Digital Africa exists specifically for that moment.
€20K to €100K. Based on your stage.
Apply at digital-africa.co/en/fuze

It begins. Hustle mode is on.

All the best startup accelerators to apply in 2026: 1. Y Combinator ($500k for ~7%) 2. Sequoia Arc ($1M for ~10%) 3. a16z Speedrun ($500k for 10% + $500k guaranteed follow-on) 4. South Park Commons ($400k for 7% + $600k guaranteed follow-on) 5. NEO Residency ($750k uncapped SAFE, variable equity) 6. HF0 Residency ($1M uncapped SAFE for 5%) 7. Seedcamp ($350k–$1M, flexible terms) 8. Boost VC ($500k for 15%) 9. The Mint ($500k for 10%) 10. 500 Global ($150k for 6%) 11. PearX ($250k–$2M SAFE) 12. SOSV / HAX ($250k for ~7%) 13. Techstars ($220k for 5%+) 14. LAUNCH ($125k for 6%) 15. Antler US ($200k–$250k for 8–9%) 16. Founders Fellowship ($150k for 5–10%) 17. Founders, Inc. ($100k–$250k for 4–7%) 18. Antler Europe (€100k for 10% + stipend) 19. Entrepreneurs First (up to $250k for ~9%) 20. Conviction Embed ($150k uncapped MFN SAFE) 21. Afore Capital ($500k–$2M SAFE, flexible terms) 22. Soma Capital ($100k) 23. Berkeley SkyDeck ($200k) 24. gener8tor ($100k for 7.5%) 25. Heartfelt VC (up to €500k) 26. Forum Ventures ($100k for 7.5%) 27. Greylock Edge (custom SAFE + $500k+ in credits) 29. Betaworks AI Camp (up to $500k for 5% + uncapped SAFE) 29. Google for Startups (equity-free; up to $100k + $350k in cloud credits) 30. Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator ($150k for 6% + $320k in credits) 31. Plug and Play Tech Center (equity-free; optional $100k–$150k SAFE) 32. Startup Wise Guys (up to €65k for equity + up to €300k follow-on) 33. HSG START Accelerator (CHF 200k for 4–10%) 34. Alchemist Accelerator (~$30k SAFE for ~5%) 35. Bethnal Green Ventures (£60,000 for 7%)

@MokoenaDee Interesting!

Honestly, the South African tech community should consider uniting to form a political party. Not to compete for coalition power or engage in parliamentary conflict, but to expand digital access, standardising regulatory frameworks, and reducing taxes on locally developed technology products.

@Angeliki_BTC Requested

Gm Gm South Africans some of you can’t be added to the web3 builders table GC. Please request to join via link: x.com/i/chat/group_j…

Today we're announcing the Billion Dollar Build. An 8-week competition where teams will use Perplexity Computer to build a company with a path to $1B. Finalists have the opportunity to secure up to $1M in investment from the Perplexity Fund and up to $1M in Computer credits.

Let's see how many orders we can get today. Aiming for 17 orders💪🏾

To all our South African founders! This opportunity is for you too. Check out @Taryl_Ogle from African Founders Community's post.

😭😭😭 lol ayyyyy Lee, you are onto something though.

No one motivates like @cz_binance Just finished his new book Freedom of Money. Here are the stories that hit hardest 👇 1/ He could not afford a $90 volleyball camp So he just showed up and watched The coach noticed and pulled him in That moment shaped his mindset Opportunities often come to people who show up before they are ready 2/ At 28, making ~$390K a year at Bloomberg CZ decided to walk away Not because he had it figured out But because he knew comfort was not the end goal Sometimes growth requires leaving stability behind 3/ He sold his apartment and went all in on Bitcoin in 2013 Then watched it crash hard And still did not sell Conviction is not tested when things go up It is tested when everything goes against you 4/ When China banned crypto in 2017 Binance had to move overnight He was told to remove his SIM and go completely offline while leaving That is how uncertain things were But he kept building through it 5/ He wrote most of this book inside a prison cell No internet No distractions Just time Instead of seeing it as a setback He used it to reflect and create The biggest takeaway 👇 This isn’t just a “how I got rich” story. It’s about staying consistent through uncertainty, making bold moves without perfect clarity, and continuing to build when it’s uncomfortable. Huge respect to @cz_binance for sharing it with such honesty.

@Taryl_Ogle How can we get involved, I'm in SA

2000+ African founders. 4 partners. a VC from a £50 million fund actively booking calls with our founders. and almost no South Africans in the room 😪 that's embarrassing and i'm fixing it if you're building or raising comment SA 🇿🇦 and i'll send you in link 👈

🇮🇷 Iran is charging $2M per ship to cross the Strait of Hormuz and they want it in Bitcoin. 😳 At $72,000 per $BTC, each ship = 27.7 BTC. Pre-crisis, 130 ships crossed daily. • Daily: 3,611 BTC • Monthly: 108,333 BTC • Yearly: 1.3 million BTC The entire Bitcoin network only mines 450 BTC per day. Iran would accumulate 8x the monthly mining supply. Every month. A sanctioned nation building a Bitcoin treasury through a toll booth. This is the most important geopolitical Bitcoin story nobody is talking about. 🔥

- Instagram was built in 8 weeks by 2 people - Facebook bought it for $1 billion - it had 13 employees and zero revenue - Wall Street called this a dumb deal - Today instagram makes nearly $60 billion a year - more than nike, coca-cola, and netflix - it now has nearly 3 billion users and over 10,000 employees - Zuckerberg paid $1 billion for something that makes $60 billion every single year - One of the greatest deal in business history was called the dumbest deal in business history the day it was signed Zuck was a genius

@Angeliki_BTC Jozi Web3 dev here , been shipping Solidity + Rust contracts for DeFi & RWA plays on EVM/Solana. SA builder scene is actually cracked. Cape Town & Joburg talent is next-level. Count me in for the next Builders Table dinner. Let’s ship real on-chain utility for Africa 🔥 gm 🌍

Did you know? South Africa has one of the strongest crypto developer & builder ecosystems in Africa. Cape Town and Johannesburg are hubs for Web3 devs & fintech startups. This is exactly why I started the builders table dinners.

@Angeliki_BTC This is so true. Cape Town needs a hubs for this. I’ve been trying to connect with devs here hard to do.

@Angeliki_BTC SA girlie over here, just followed you❤️