Reports & Publications

GALI releases one major publication each spring focused on the impact of acceleration on early-stage ventures. The team also produces shorter reports and data summaries throughout the year. In addition to our own research, we actively encourage others to publish original research using this data. You can request the full data set here. 

Find in-depth explorations of data on early-stage entrepreneurship and accelerator effectiveness in GALI publications.

For papers and reports published by other researchers using GALI data, click here.

5 Publications found

  • Landscape Study of Accelerators and Incubators in East Africa

    A Knowledge Brief by the Global Accelerator Learning Initiative

    Nov 2020

    This knowledge brief explores characteristics of accelerator and incubator programs in East Africa, focusing specifically on Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. It highlights existing practices and perceptions among programs to better establish a common understanding of the current landscape, best practices, and key challenges.

  • Accelerating Women-led Startups

    A South African Perspective

    Nov 2020

    This brief provides a regional review of the intersection of gender and acceleration in South Africa, drawing on GALI’s global findings while highlighting primary analysis of entrepreneur data collected by Catalyst for Growth (C4G), a small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) platform for programme monitoring, analytics, and reporting in South Africa.

  • Accelerating Youth-Led Enterprises in Nigeria

    Jul 2018

    This knowledge brief seeks to capture information about incubators and accelerators in Nigeria and how they support youth-led enterprises. The brief was developed using Global Accelerator Learning Initiative (GALI) data alongside interviews and stakeholder meetings held in Lagos and Abuja with support from Oxfam in Nigeria.

  • Acceleration in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Initial data from the Entrepreneurship Database Program

    Feb 2018

    This data summary provides a snapshot of more than 2,500 early-stage ventures that applied to over 50 acceleration programs in Sub-Saharan Africa, and includes regional insights for East and West Africa and country-specific information for Kenya, Uganda, and Nigeria.

  • Entrepreneurship and Acceleration: Questions From The Field

    Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa

    Feb 2015

    In this brief, we use data from the Entrepreneurship Acceleration Research Initiative in order to respond to a question submitted by the MasterCard Foundation about Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa: "At The MasterCard Foundation, we have a portfolio of youth entrepreneurship projects that we support in Sub Saharan Africa. We’re always looking for data to better understand the space and to inform our programming. I’m wondering if you could share any data by ages 18-24 and 25-30, and by African country or region if possible. Do you see anything interesting under these parameters?"

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