E-Mentoring Platforms

BiD Network
ImagineNations Network
M-Farm empowers Kenyan Farmers: M-Farm is an online platform that provides farmers with up-to-date market information and a marketplace to sell their products
MentorNet: MentorNet is pairing students, postdoctoral scholars, and untenured faculty with experienced professionals in their fields for email-based mentoring relationships.
PUM - Netherlands Senior Experts

Entrepreneurship Assistance

Bplans.com
Businesslink.gov.uk
Entrepreneurship.gov (with Entrepreneurship.org)
Entrepreneurstoolkit.org
Fostering an entrepreneurial culture in Chile: Start-Up Chile is a program of the Chilean Government to attract world-class early stage entrepreneurs to start their businesses in Chile.
Investment Market Place for SMEs
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
PlanWare: How to Write a Business Plan
Useful Business Plan Template
Women Entrepreneurship Coaching and Development

Higher Education/Business Networks

AfricaBusinessNet.Com
African Aurora Business Network
African Diaspora Business Network
Career Job Employment Engine based in Kenya: Careerjet is a job search engine. In one simple search, it gives job seekers access to a huge selection of jobs that are sourced from various internet sites, saving the trouble of having to visit each site individually.
CIDA Campus
Entrepreneurship.org (Kauffman Foundation)
Higher Education for Development (HED)
Honey Bee Network (India)
International Finance Corporation
Kauffman Foundation
Local Economic Development Network of Africa (LEDNA.org)
Research and Media Network

Open Innovation Networks

Endeavor
Innocentive
Open and Collaborative: ’Open Innovators’ wants to bring new insights and best practices on open innovation, crowdsourcing, and co-creation - for business leaders as well as entrepreneurs.
Open Innovation in Global Networks: OECD Policy Brief
OpenMarkets

Social Entrepreneurship Platforms

Amazee
Get your Degree with Online Tutorials: Kahn Academy has a library of over 3,000 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 311 practice exercises. It is all free accessible on YouTube
Kiva
MYC4 - Online Marketplace: MYC4 is an online marketplace that connects you directly with African entrepreneurs, who lack capital to develop their businesses. We see a huge business potential in Africa waiting to be triggered.
YouNoodle (Beta)

Venture Finance

Business Angels (Switzerland)
Business for base of the pyramid: Acumen Fund invests in businesses that bring essential goods and services, such as access to clean water, reliable health services, or formal housing options, to “base of the pyramid” (BoP) customers.
CTI Invest (Switzerland)
CTI Start-up (Switzerland)
Funding Innovation for Business in Africa: The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) is a US$190m private sector fund, backed by some of the biggest names in development finance and hosted by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). Our aim is to encourage private sector companies to compete for investment support for their new and innovative business ideas.
IFJ (Switzerland)
Investment in African Business Ideas : The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund provides grants and interest free loans to businesses who wish to implement innovative, commercial viable, high impact projects in Africa.
Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO)
PROPARCO (France)
Swiss Investment Fund for Emerging Markets (SIFEM)