The Customary Chartered Ladies in Tech Cohort 6 Program has opened purposes in Kenya with a mission to assist feminine founders and assist them develop their companies.
The Customary Chartered Ladies in Expertise is an initiative of Customary Chartered in partnership with Strathmore College’s @iBizAfrica incubator. It combines world-class startup assist with native and worldwide expertise to supply Africa’s best and enticing startup incubation program specializing in immersive studying, mentorship, constructing and rising Africa’s subsequent iconic startups taking over the continent’s most related challenges and alternatives with the assist of seed capital.
In accordance to the Incubator,they’re in search of to recruit the perfect entrepreneurial minds, women-led tech startups as key drivers of innovation in enterprise.The precept founder should be a girl,above 18 years of age,Of Kenyan nationality or everlasting residency.
The Incubator can be focusing on Kenyan startups that are constructing technological options aimed toward mitigating Kenyan socio-economic challenges.The chosen startup ventures ought to be sector agnostic and embed parts of rising applied sciences in constructing their options corresponding to Synthetic Intelligence, Web of Issues; Massive Information; Machine Studying; Robotics; Augmented & Digital Actuality; 3D & 4D Printing; Cloud Computing; Massive Information; Blockchain; Drone Expertise and Biometrics e.t.c inside their respective sectors.
The candidates should be Ladies led startup ventures and the groups ought to be made up of at the very least 50% girls.
Principal applicant should be the founder with a majority stake and the enterprise will need to have 3 months to lower than 2 years of operation in search of assist for proof of idea, buyer, product and enterprise mannequin improvement.
The startups should be pre-revenue with early traction (customers). Submit income is an added benefit,they need to not have acquired funding of greater than KES. 500,000 and never participated in an identical program within the final 1 yr.
Chosen startups will participate in a 12-week immersive studying expertise, achieve entry to a community of teaching specialists, and entry B2B networking alternatives. They may even participate in personalised mentorship classes to deal with their distinctive enterprise wants.
The highest seven finalists will obtain KES1 million (US$7,500) in equity-free grant seed funding, in addition to 9 months of ongoing assist from Customary Chartered and @iBizAfrica to help with go-to-market and scale.
Purposes are open right here till Could 28.