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Free e-sessions and e-trainings on sales, product, funding and scaling — built for founders and students across the continent.
Knowledge across borders
Entrepreneurship does not know borders
Ignite Borders connects experienced global entrepreneurs with aspiring African founders and students — through free e-sessions, mentorship, coaching and the tools to build something that scales.
Our story
It started with a journey through Southern Africa
In 2016, Tobias Schlitzke met young people full of ideas and ambition — but far from the mentors and networks other ecosystems take for granted. One question followed him home to Munich: what if knowledge could travel across borders more easily?
“Knowledge shouldn't stop at a border. An entrepreneur thousands of kilometres away shouldn't have to reinvent what somebody else already learned the hard way.”
Tobias Schlitzke — Founder & Chairman
What we do
Three ways to be part of it
Become a coach
Share what you know. Experienced entrepreneurs run remote sessions and mentor founders building real businesses.
Apply as an institution
Schools, hubs and organisations get access to a pool of global entrepreneurs — at no cost to your community.
03 — From the field
Business looks different on the ground.
Ghana
Student founders in Accra turning campus projects into businesses that hire beyond graduation.
Coming soonKenya
What mobile-first consumers taught us about building products people actually pay for.
Coming soonZambia
Why access to a mentor — not capital — is often the first missing piece for early founders.
Coming soonMunich · July
Botswana
BotswanaIn Munich, Ignite Borders joined Botswana's Foreign Minister Dr. Phenyo Butale, Ambassador John-Thomas Dipowe and Ulrich Rieger of the Africa First Network to discuss diversifying Botswana's diamond economy — with Germany as a partner.
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Partnership in focus
Impact so far
A small network already spanning a continent
Mentors dial in from Europe and beyond; founders join from hubs across Africa. Every dot is a place where a session actually happened.
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Capacity for innovation, in the room
Worldwide partners
Hubs, parks and companies backing the mission
Get involved
We are all neighbours in a global community
Founder, coach, school or hub — tell us how you'd like to be involved and we'll take it from there.