AfriBlocks, a Zimbabwean freelancing web site, has been accepted into the Techstars Seattle accelerator program, getting access to mentorship, networks, and US$120,000 in funding.
AfriBlocks is a pan-African freelancing market that hyperlinks customers with distant working alternatives and manages the applying, hiring, and cost course of from begin to end.
The startup has been chosen to take part within the twelfth version of the Techstars Seattle accelerator.
The accelerator program which is a part of the worldwide Techstars community.
Techstars is a worldwide community that hyperlinks entrepreneurs and their groups with different entrepreneurs, specialists, mentors, alumni, traders, neighborhood leaders, and company companions that may assist their companies increase.
AfriBlocks is one in every of 9 startups from world wide taking part within the initiative.
Which will likely be carried out via a mixture of distant and in-person programming, relying on COVID-19 situations.
The organizers stated, “Marketplaces and commerce are a mainstay of Techstars Seattle, and this yr we’re excited to welcome AfriBlocks, which makes African freelance expertise open to the world.”
