StartHub Africa is excited to partner with Hindsight Ventures for the Wazo Challenge Kenya, to enable startups in the region.
After the grand success of Wazo Challenge Tanzania & Wazo Challenge East Africa in 2021, we are now thrilled to announce the 3rd Edition – Wazo Challenge Kenya.
Wazo Challenge Kenya is aimed at 18 – 30-year-old Kenyans, who are building a technology-based venture to solve local business / social challenges. The program is a 4-week venture development Bootcamp, led by global mentors and industry partners, culminating with an investor demo day.
We are looking for enterprising youth (as individuals or teams) that are using technology (Software / Hardware / Software+Hardware), and solving for one of the below:
- Financial Services
- Healthcare
- Agriculture
- Sustainability
- Retail
- Supply Chain
Application Deadline: 25th May 2022
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Takeaways from Wazo Challenge Kenya
- 4-week venture development Bootcamp with facilitated group workshops and 1-on-1 mentoring
- $500,000 of technology credits from our partners, to all startups selected for the program
- Interactions with a pool of global mentors (successful entrepreneurs, domain experts, industry experts and investors)
- Participation/showcase at the East Africa Corporate Innovation Summit
- Global demo day
- Competing for a grant money pool
If you’re a tech entrepreneur from Kenya building a product/ solution to solve a problem from one of the six areas above, we strongly encourage you to apply.
We are looking to have a gender-balanced cohort, so we strongly encourage young women to apply.
Click here for further details
Be a part of a community of like-minded founders who are fabulous, fantastic, and freakishly passionate about taking their business to the next level.
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