It's a blockbuster funding year for African startups
By Conrad Onyango, bird - Africa is on track for its biggest startup fundraising year ever. With more African startups joining the "unicorn club", that's a trend that looks likely to continue.
Valid8: Meet the great minds behind the innovative pre-accelerator
Valid8 pre-accelerator comes to break the barriers of turning your ideas into reality. This is the second blog post about the Valid8 pre-accelerator launched by Ambitious.Africa, the Great Zambezi Initiative, and TampereES. In this blog, we will present to you our team and the motivation behind this innovative pre-accelerator that not only connects Zambezi startups but also brings a bridge with the Finnish ecosystem.
Ambitious Liberia: Monrovia Ecosystem Launch
The Monrovia Ecosystem is now officially launched and accessible to the public. It is found at KeysEcosystem.com/Monrovia. The launching event was held on May 21 2021 in the Auditorium, University of Liberia Capitol Hill Campus, and was merged with the University of Liberia E-learning Workshop which brought together university students, youth leaders, young aspiring entrepreneurs, and stakeholders. Thanks to Ambitious Liberia and Ambitious.Africa for building this online resource platform. The Monrovia Ecosystem is a visual representation of resources to connect entrepreneurs to co-working spaces, accelerators, startups, hubs, financial and higher learning institutions, competitions, etc.
Bantaba: The Bridge to African Talent and Resources
Bantaba is a digital platform that connects the African diaspora with start-ups in Africa. Hardly a year since they started: “Although we didn’t win the competition, it not only taught us the diaspora’s affinity to Africa but also the level of talent in this community. I mean we had people with backgrounds in renewable energy, aerospace engineering, machine learning, and cloud computing,” Lamin who is the CEO said.
Valid8 Pre-Accelerator: The Accelerator for the Future
Startups may be small companies but they can play a significant role in economic growth especially in Africa. They create more jobs, innovation, and change. We believe that startups are the driving force behind our future generation and, Valid8 Pre-accelerator advocates for the entrepreneurs in their early stage and support them to continue to foster innovation.
Ambitious.Africa x Home Street Home x LUTES: Building Entrepreneurial Mindset in Makongeni, Kenya
Ambitious.Africa, Home Street Home, and LUTES have joined forces to build an entrepreneurship bootcamp that encourages entrepreneurial mindset, provides hard skills, and inspires creative problem-solving for the Home Street Home community. We use the train-the-trainer concept for maximizing the impact and making it sustainable. The first edition of the three-day bootcamp with 25 participants will take place in May 2021 in Makongeni, Kenya.
Ambitious Zambia: Envisage Valid8 Bootcamp - Three Days Full of Innovation
Ambitious Zambia hosted Envisage Valid8 Bootcamp on 26th to 28th November in Lusaka, bringing youth together and teaching them entrepreneurial mindset and skills as well as creating an environment and support for piloting of innovations during the training process.
Promoting Access to Remote Learning during COVID-19: Ubongo’s Journey
Ubongo, meaning “brain” in Kiswahili, came to life in 2013 with the aim to help kids in Africa to learn, and leverage their learning to change their lives. Ubongo provides powerful edutainment solutions to make e-learning fun by using edu-cartoons and the power of media, like TV, radio, and mobile devices.