Why accelerators are flocking to Tunisia

Tunisia has an impressive number of entrepreneurship training and mentoring programs, despite its small size.

Still, as is often the case for  young entrepreneurial ecosystems, those programs occasionally lack professionalism and efficiency.

Five years after the political and cultural revolution that shook the country, foreign accelerators are opening premises, successful entrepreneurs are coming to the rescue and traditional players are updating their programs.

The famous American accelerator Founders Institute is kicking off its idea-stage program on November 11.

Boost, a seed-stage accelerator created by actual entrepreneurs, will start its second class in December.

And later this year Carthage Business Angel’s seed-stage acceleratorStart’Act and pan-Arab success story Flat6Labs will enter Tunisia.

Original article by Aline Mayard

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