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BongoHive closed off the year with 9 startups completing the final Discover Programme for the year 2019 on Friday, 22 November. The programme is designed for early-stage startups and aspiring entrepreneurs to assist them in formulating their business ideas and creating launchable startups. The 2-week programme involves daily training sessions at Bongohive, where the selected… Read more »
The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and BongoHive Innovation and Technology Hub have partnered to launch the FinTech4U Accelerator Programme. FinTech4U is a startup programme targeted at businesses in the FinTech and Digital Financial Services industry with the potential to gain traction and scale up to serve more customers and improve financial inclusion, especially… Read more »
The 20th cohort of the BongoHive Discover programme, designed for aspiring entrepreneurs and early-stage startups to help them formulate their business ideas, ended on Friday 20th September with 7 teams pitching their ideas. QuickWash Zambia, a startup company looking to open laundromats across Lusaka, won best pitch at the just ended Discover programme. Founder, Matthew… Read more »
BongoHive, Zambia’s first innovation and technology hub, has been selected as one of 10 tech Hubs across Africa to attend the 2019 Africa-Europe Innovation Partnership Project Launch event taking place in Kenya. The Africa-Europe Innovation Partnership Project aims to foster innovation cooperation between Africa and Europe by building mutually beneficial partnerships and collaborations between incubators… Read more »
Last month (18th to 22nd March 2019), we hosted the Edtech Entrepreneurship Bootcamp alongside Injini and National Technology Business Centre (NTBC) with selected twelve (12) startups. The weeklong programme was geared towards startups that are interested in solving problems in the educational sector using technology. During the 5 day programme, the participants polished their EdTech… Read more »
Six (6) startups completed the BongoHive Launch Accelerator 8th programme during Demo night which was hosted at Alliance Francaise on 6th December, 2018. The six start-ups pitched before an audience which included: Njavwa Mulwanda – Co-founder and Partner at Zenga Venture Fund, Charity Lumpa – Board Chairperson at ZANACO Plc, and Benjamin Katubiya – CEO… Read more »
U.S. Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission Christopher Krafft today closed the 2017/2018 Entrepreneurship Boot Camp Finale for young Zambian entrepreneurs in collaboration with local innovation and technology hub BongoHive. The goal of the year-long bootcamp program was to support the development of youth entrepreneurship through skills training, strategies, and expert advice. Over the past 12… Read more »
The DataHack4FI Innovation Competition promotes the use of data and data analytics to solve challenges experienced by individuals or communities. The competition encourages Pan-African collaboration by creating opportunities for data enthusiasts and emerging tech companies to partner in developing solutions that address local financial and economic inclusion-related challenges. Building on the previous seasons of the… Read more »
Given the substantive role that procurement plays in public financial management, and in light of its impact on the wider public sector objectives including sustainability and socio-economic objectives; the need for each country to develop and implement workable strategies is essential. Only through collaborative action plans organisations can mitigate the challenges and weaknesses identified with… Read more »
BongoHive has selected its latest cohort of Entrepreneurs in its Launch Accelerator, with founders from 9 Zambian startups. The Launch accelerator is a 6-month programme (a 3 months startup program + 3 months additional business support) developed for startups looking to gain traction and scale up. Startups in the program share co-working space with other… Read more »
