Started by Dotun Adeoye as a meetup/ networking group in June 2014 as a non-profit focused on bringing Africans in Africa and the diaspora together to innovate the continent. It was an unregistered community interest company with board advisers and a management team
2018
The organisation is formally registered in the UK. The second set of board advisors came on board. The company was registered as a
non-profit. company
2019
We started expanding across Africa. The board approved moving the global HQ to Kigali, Rwanda. We incorporated in Rwanda in 2019.
2021 -2022
The Ghana office was set up. Innovate Africa was incorporated in Ghana. This office is in charge of our Passport to Freedom programme. The UK operations were discontinued as Rwanda became
fully functional
2024
In our 10th year of operations, we agreed to expand our impact across our demographics: African Youths, Female-Led SMEs and
IDP Aspiring Entrepreneurs
2014
Started by Dotun Adeoye as a meetup/ networking group in June 2014 as a non-profit focused on bringing Africans in Africa and the diaspora together to innovate the continent. It was an unregistered community interest company with board advisers and a management team
2018
The organisation is formally registered in the UK. The second set of board advisors came on board. The company was registered as a
non-profit. company
2019
We started expanding across Africa. The board approved moving the global HQ to Kigali, Rwanda. We incorporated in Rwanda in 2019.
2021 -2022
The Ghana office was set up. Innovate Africa was incorporated in Ghana. This office is in charge of our Passport to Freedom programme. The UK operations were discontinued as Rwanda became
fully functional
2024
In our 10th year of operations, we agreed to expand our impact across our demographics: African Youths, Female-Led SMEs and
