Open Startup

10 years of moving YESes forward ✨ Photo album part I

Last Friday in , where it all started, we gathered founders, partners, mentors, investors, scientists, ecosystem builders, early believers, and friends of the Open Startup community.

A day to look back at where it started, and to open what comes next.

From campus to continent.
From science to market.
From climate and health challenges to DeepTech solutions.
From market readiness to first capital.
From Tunis to Africa, and from Africa to the world 🌍

The conversations throughout the day reflected Open Startup’s next direction: a sharper focus on research-led ventures, DeepTech, health, climate, investment readiness, early financing, and the pathways African founders need to grow beyond their first markets.

This is also the beginning of 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐚𝐝, Open Startup’s new strategic direction focused on research-led African ventures in , , and .

What it brings together:

• Acceleration
• Market and investment readiness
• Openers First, our new early financing layer
• Stronger pathways to markets, capital, and real-world adoption

To everyone who joined us, supported us, partnered with us, mentored, contributed, built, opened doors, and carried this journey with us: thank you.

Gratitude to all the partners who made this possible, tagged in the first comment.

The journey continues 🚀