5 Black Female Tech Founders selected for Absa’s inaugural Rise Scalerator Programme
Absa’s Rise innovation hub in Cape Town has selected five black female tech founders that will participate in its entrepreneurship assistance programme.
Camilla Swart, Ecosystem Manager at Rise Cape Town – Absa’s Cape Town based innovation hub – highlights the technology sector as one such area that requires additional support in terms of driving diversity and inclusion.
The Rise Scalerator is specifically designed to do help close the entrepreneurial gender gap. According to Swart, the initiative aims to plug the so-called leaky tech pipeline by actively focusing on black female business founders – and the five chosen participants have just been announced.
Source: SME South Africa
