{"id":542,"date":"2022-05-15T17:12:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T14:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starthubafrica.org\/blog\/?p=542"},"modified":"2022-05-15T17:59:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T14:59:39","slug":"apply-wazo-challenge-kenya-hindsight-ventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starthubafrica.org\/blog\/apply-wazo-challenge-kenya-hindsight-ventures\/","title":{"rendered":"Apply for the Wazo Challenge Kenya by Hindsight Ventures"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

StartHub Africa is excited to partner with Hindsight Ventures for the Wazo Challenge Kenya, to enable startups in the region.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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:<\/p>\r\n

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  1. Financial Services<\/li>\r\n
  2. Healthcare<\/li>\r\n
  3. Agriculture<\/li>\r\n
  4. Sustainability<\/li>\r\n
  5. Retail<\/li>\r\n
  6. Supply Chain<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

    Application Deadline: 25th May 2022<\/h2>\r\n[av_button label=’Apply Here’ icon_select=’no’ icon=’ue800′ font=’entypo-fontello’ link=’manually,https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfGbK9mLoV-sIV9lSo2fS7SGvjUqSDWYrwWmTVProBYVv3V9A\/viewform’ link_target=’_blank’ size=’large’ position=’left’ label_display=” title_attr=” color_options=” color=’black’ custom_bg=’#444444′ custom_font=’#ffffff’ btn_color_bg=’theme-color’ btn_custom_grad_direction=’vertical’ btn_custom_grad_1=’#000000′ btn_custom_grad_2=’#ffffff’ btn_custom_grad_3=” btn_custom_grad_opacity=’0.7′ btn_custom_bg=’#444444′ btn_color_bg_hover=’theme-color-highlight’ btn_custom_bg_hover=’#444444′ btn_color_font=’theme-color’ btn_custom_font=’#ffffff’ btn_color_font_hover=’white’ btn_custom_font_hover=’#ffffff’ border=” border_width=” border_width_sync=’true’ border_color=” border_radius=” border_radius_sync=’true’ box_shadow=” box_shadow_style=’0px,0px,0px,0px’ box_shadow_color=” hover_opacity=” sonar_effect_effect=” sonar_effect_color=” sonar_effect_duration=’1′ sonar_effect_scale=” sonar_effect_opac=’0.5′ id=” custom_class=” template_class=” av_uid=’av-exbs6′ sc_version=’1.0′ admin_preview_bg=”]\r\n

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    Takeaways from Wazo Challenge Kenya<\/h2>\r\n
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    1. 4-week venture development Bootcamp with facilitated group workshops and 1-on-1 mentoring<\/li>\r\n
    2. $500,000 of technology credits from our partners, to all startups selected for the program<\/li>\r\n
    3. Interactions with a pool of global mentors (successful entrepreneurs, domain experts,\u00a0industry experts and investors)<\/li>\r\n
    4. Participation\/showcase at the East Africa Corporate Innovation Summit<\/li>\r\n
    5. Global demo day<\/li>\r\n
    6. Competing for a grant money pool<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

      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.<\/p>\r\n

      We are looking to have a gender-balanced cohort, so we strongly encourage young women to apply.<\/p>\r\n

      Click here for further details<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

      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.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n[av_button label=’Apply Here’ icon_select=’no’ icon=’ue800′ font=’entypo-fontello’ link=’manually,https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfGbK9mLoV-sIV9lSo2fS7SGvjUqSDWYrwWmTVProBYVv3V9A\/viewform’ link_target=’_blank’ size=’large’ position=’left’ label_display=” title_attr=” color_options=” color=’black’ custom_bg=’#444444′ custom_font=’#ffffff’ btn_color_bg=’theme-color’ btn_custom_grad_direction=’vertical’ btn_custom_grad_1=’#000000′ btn_custom_grad_2=’#ffffff’ btn_custom_grad_3=” btn_custom_grad_opacity=’0.7′ btn_custom_bg=’#444444′ btn_color_bg_hover=’theme-color-highlight’ btn_custom_bg_hover=’#444444′ btn_color_font=’theme-color’ btn_custom_font=’#ffffff’ btn_color_font_hover=’white’ btn_custom_font_hover=’#ffffff’ border=” border_width=” border_width_sync=’true’ border_color=” border_radius=” border_radius_sync=’true’ box_shadow=” box_shadow_style=’0px,0px,0px,0px’ box_shadow_color=” hover_opacity=” sonar_effect_effect=” sonar_effect_color=” sonar_effect_duration=’1′ sonar_effect_scale=” sonar_effect_opac=’0.5′ id=” custom_class=” template_class=” av_uid=’av-8bqji’ sc_version=’1.0′ admin_preview_bg=”]\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"StartHub Africa is excited to partner with Hindsight Ventures for the Wazo…\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-link","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-features","8":"post_format-post-format-link"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starthubafrica.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starthubafrica.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starthubafrica.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starthubafrica.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starthubafrica.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/starthubafrica.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546,"href":"https:\/\/starthubafrica.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starthubafrica.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starthubafrica.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starthubafrica.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starthubafrica.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}