Summit highlights
This year’s event was the premier gathering for investors passionate about Africa’s startup ecosystem.
Below, you can find the full provisional program, which featured:
- Two full days of engaging panel discussions
- Curated investor experiences
- A Deal Morning, including the Portfolio Showcase
- Networking cocktails, breakfasts, and lunches
- Exit-focused discussions, technical workshops, and an AI-focused session
- A pre-summit opening cocktail and ecosystem tour
- An awards ceremony
Tickets
Interested in purchasing group tickets? Reach out to us at team@africainvestorsummit.com for more details.
#AESIS2025 audience
This year's speakers
Scroll across to some of this year’s confirmed speakers.
This years discussion pillars
Innovation in Action
A spotlight on frontier sectors—from AI and climate tech to cultural innovation and manufacturing. This pillar unpacks how African-led innovation is shaping investment thesis. It showcases the bold ideas, indigenous technologies, and market-specific adaptations that are pushing Africa from a consumer to a creator economy.
Inclusive Investing
This pillar focuses on shifting capital to overlooked geographies, women-led businesses, and historically marginalized communities. Gender lens and inclusive investing remain front and center. We’ll examine the data, the deal flows, and the systemic shifts required to embed equity into the DNA of Africa’s investment ecosystem.
Catalytic Partnerships
Exploring how diaspora, public-private partnerships, DFIs, and local stakeholders can synergize to amplify outcomes, mitigate risks, and support market expansion. This pillar seeks to uncover how trust-based networks and shared vision can unlock new capital flows and scalable infrastructure for African enterprises.
Capital, Strategy & Ownership
How do we move beyond access to capital and toward intentional ownership? This pillar explores long-term investment vehicles, blended capital, and models of ownership that build African wealth and power. This pillar challenges investors and founders to rethink not just how capital is raised—but how it’s retained, circulated, and leveraged to entrench African equity in global markets.
From Startups to Scale
African markets require flexible investment strategies. This pillar will explore smart exits, secondary buyouts, and pathways to scale through regional collaboration and policy reform. It will also interrogate what it takes to build resilient companies in volatile environments—and the investor mindsets needed to see the long game through.
Investor Experiences
On Thursday evening of #AESIS2025, we brought back our popular investor experiences! Our attendees stepped out of the conference for a unique, casual networking opportunity. Check out some of the highlights below.
Sundowners at Sea
Sunset Cruise with AUDA NEPAD
Padel and Pizza
Padel with Digital Africa
Bubbles, Bowls and Braai
Bubbles, Bowls and Braai with Intracen & UK SA Tech Hub
Skyline Mixer
Skyline Mixer with FMO
#AESIS2025 Hightlights
#AESIS2025 was one for the books! From inspiring panels to sunset cocktails, relive some of the highlights and memories below.