Entreprenarium – A leading African non-profit organization dedicated to sustaining the growth of African self, micro and small enterprises

ENTREPRENARIUM is a leading pan-African organization dedicated to sustaining the growth of African Women micro,small and medium enterprises (WMSMEs).

African women represent a key pillar of the private and collective spheres of african economy. They also represent the highest percentage of women entrepreneurs in the world with a rate of 25,9% in sub-Saharan Africa.

Although their formal and informal business activities have a clear impact on the well-being of their families and communities, African women entrepreneurs still face multiple challenges.These challenges include access to finance ie.lending, traditional collateral and guarantees and lack of financial knowledge.

Our Vision

Unleashing the potential of women in Africa!

Our Mission

We design training and technical assistance programs to support African women in their entrepreneurial journey. As soon as our beneficiaries reach the accurate level of business maturity, we provide a personalized assistance to ensure their access to finance with our financial institutions’ partners.

Our Footprint

Entreprenarium and its team has more than 25 years’ experience in 10 countries across Africa

Our Impact

Since 2014, we have supported over 3,000 entrepreneurs through our programs and invested in 52 businesses across Africa.

To date, Entreprenarium graduates created over 12,000 jobs in 15 countries.

Our Reasons

“The WCR helped me to set my project ideas in a structured way, the tools that were provided during the trainings are essential to manage my business effectively nowadays.”

Biteghe Mouele Maika – Gabon
Boucles & Frisettes

“The financial assistance I received enabled me to purchase an equipment and increase my production and sales by 66%. I want to let Entreprenarium know that their help and generosity is for many the path to success!”

Jacqueline Mukabanana – Rwanda
Excellent Design Ltd

“Thanks to the trainings and the funding for my startup, Entreprenarium supported me, but also help all those people who are behind me, as I am a breadwinner.”

Sokhna Fall – Senegal
General Service Technology

Founder

Kristine Ngiriye is a serial entrepreneur, a venture philanthropist, and an advisor to the most influential business and political leaders across Africa.

In 2014, she funded Entreprenarium, the first philanthropic accelerator that helps promising women entrepreneurs – through business support and access to finance – start and sustain innovative businesses to drive Africa’s prosperity.

Kristine Ngiriye is one of the Top100 most influential women in Africa according to Forbes Afrique (2019) and has been nominated among ‘The100 who transform Africa’ by Financial Afrik and received the Award in Financial Inclusion (2019).

Partners

Our partners across 13 countries

Contact Us

Please follow us on social networks, or write to our email address hello@entreprenarium.com

Kigali - Rwanda

hello@entreprenarium.org