Kinaya Ventures is a Dakar / Abidjan based innovation platform that connects promising startups to large corporations and investors, and fosters open innovation in Francophone Africa. Kinaya Ventures has designed Spring Fellowship, an accelerator fund backed by corporate partners which combines support to scale to seed funding, and is running Upscaler, an upskilling program dedicated to innovative entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs. The platform is also setting up Malaaka Business Angels Club, an angel fund, in Senegal, before rolling it out in Côte d’Ivoire, and launching Kinaya Seed Fund, a Pan-African seed investment vehicle.