The Africa Business Angel Network (ABAN) is proud to announce the ABAN Annual Congress 2025, a landmark event celebrating 10 years of advancing angel investing across Africa.
After a highly competitive host selection, the ABANCongress2025, held under the bold theme: “Accelerating Local Capital Participation”, is heading to Lagos, Nigeria (from 17th to 18th October 2025)!
The two-day gathering will feature high-level networking, thought leadership panels, startup showcases, and strategic launches, including Catalytic Africa 2.0, the Africa Business Angel Investment Vehicle (ABAIV), and the unveiling of the ABAN Angel Investment Report 2025. Participants will explore cross-border syndication models, policy frameworks, and thematic investments across sectors such as climate-smart agriculture, cleantech, health, AI, education, digital trade, smart cities, sports, and the creative economy.
Key highlights of the Congress will also include curated roundtable strategy labs, live Angel networks/funds/syndicate pitch sessions designed for co-investment, and the ABAN Gala Awards Ceremony, which will honor outstanding contributors to Africa’s early-stage investment movement. The ABAN Annual Congress 2025 is a catalytic platform to mobilise local capital, align pan-African strategies, and activate the next wave of early-stage investors across Africa and the diaspora. Africa must fund Africa, and that future begins at the centre, not the sidelines.
Register for the Congress here
About ABAN
ABAN is the largest pan-African organization of Angel investors in Africa. Established in 2015, ABAN represents the growing number of business angel groups in the African early-stage ecosystems’ future, providing vital human and financial capital to African startup companies, and creating jobs across the continent. Now active in 37 African countries and the diaspora, ABAN brings together 75+ member networks and more than 5,000 angel investors committed to fueling early-stage innovation. To learn more about ABAN’s work and how you can be part of Africa’s thriving entrepreneurial future, visit the ABAN website.