The Academy African Angel Academy (AAA) was established in early 2020 to grow the number of angel investors on the continent to catalyse and grow Africa’s early-stage investing and startup ecosystems.

After running a successful pilot with 50 new angel investors from five Southern African countries with seed funding from the Southern African Innovation Support Programme (SAIS), the need was clearly established: African angel investors play a critical role in the economic development of local startup markets.

Since the pilot, other prominent partners have come on board to scale AAA delivery into other markets, optimising the online course for individual consumers and partnering with leading development financiers and ecosystem enablers to run bespoke programmes for Africa’s emerging angel investors.

AAA is designed and delivered by Viridian and ViKtoria Ventures.