Your home in Africa's innovation community

Find the mentors, peers and partners who back your work, and belong to a community built to last.

For founders building what is next, and the mentors and partners who back them.

Meet Ascend, our first community ↓

Ascend: Women in Tech Alliance

Rise together. Build what's next.

A shared space for women in technology and the allies who champion their success: one identity, many rooms, a community built for the long term.

Connect

With peers, mentors and allies who understand the path you are on.

Catalyse

Visibility, market access and opportunity you can actually act on.

Build

Capability, confidence and momentum you carry forward into every next step.

Ascend grows out of the Standard Chartered Foundation Women in Tech programme, in partnership with Village Capital and Innovation Village, implemented by Future Lab, now built on Fusion.