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.
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.
Rwanda Genocide: A Closer Look at How the Nordics Participated in Bringing Closure to the Land of a Thousand Hills
If you are reading about the Rwandan Genocide for the first time, this conflict was considered the result of a civil war between the Hutus and the Tutsis. It all started when Rwanda’s President, Juvénal Habyarimana, was killed when his plane was shot down. Hutu extremists then gained control of the government and started a genocide that would brutally murder up to 800,000 people between April 7 and July 15, 1994.
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.