Come join us at Slush to Rethink Africa
The Southern Africa Innovation Support Programme in partnership with the Southern Africa Innovation Collective, Accelerated Growth for MSMEs in Zambia Programme, Think Africa, and Ambitious.Africa are organizing the Official Slush 2021 Side Event, Rethink Africa: Expanding Opportunities through Technology and Collaboration.
Ambitious.Africa and Nordic Startup School Host Workshop to Boost African Startups
Nordic Startup School hosted a workshop together with Framlabs and Ambitious Africa on September 16th for startups with the aim of accelerating the tech ecosystem in Africa and build profitable businesses.
Interview: Springboard CEO Kingsley J Ify on Sustainable African-Nordic Business Partnerships
The annual Springboard conference was founded to enable smoother investment and stronger partnerships between entrepreneurs and key business players in Africas and the Nordics. Ambitious.Africa Media caught up with co-founder and CEO Kingsley J Ify to talk about this year’s virtual event.
Ambitious.Africa Meets with Finnish Foreign Trade Minister Ville Skinnari 10.8
The Ambitious.Africa team met with Finnish Minister of Development and Foreign Trade Ville Skinnari on Monday, August 10th to discuss ways of strengthening Finland’s business presence in Africa and the importance of young people working together.
Leading Finnish Startup Accelerator Kiuas Seeking to Internationalise Invites Ambitious.Africa to Demo Day 2020
The leading Finnish non-profit startup accelerator Kiuas has invited members of the Ambitious.Africa initiative to join their annual Demo Day on August 27th - an online event this year. Kiuas wants to internationalise and encourage involvement in more collaborative projects outside of Finland, such as in Africa. The final show of Kiuas Accelerator will showcase sixteen of Finland’s most promising pre-seed startups who have participated in their programme.
Tanzanian Women Handcrafting Their Way to Financial Independence Through Finnish Fairtrade
SideBySide is a fairtrade interior design company started in 2016, which Ambitious Africa is partnering with. The business has so far employed five hundred women in Tanzania, in rural communities as well as in a women’s shelter. The women make interior items such as handweaved baskets, which are sold to Finnish resellers. They can use their earnings to move beyond household duties and imagine new possibilities for themselves and their families.
