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Three times a year, the launch accelerator latest batch of startup founders present their companies to a room full of business leaders, selected investors and media. Demo night takes place on the last day of each launch accelerator cohort. Thursday, 14th December, 2017 saw seven (7) startup founders pitch their companies at the 6th Launch Accelerator… Read more »
As part of Liquid Telecom’s ongoing African Innovation initiative, start-ups in Zambia will have greater access to high-speed internet and cloud-based services CEC Liquid Telecommunications, part of the leading pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom, is helping to accelerate Zambia’s emerging gaming and Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem through a new partnership with BongoHive; Zambia’s first… Read more »
Safe Motherhood Alliance, a startup that provides, produces and distributes safe baby delivery kits to women in rural areas has won the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp: Social Impact theme. The startup won $1000 worth of seed investment for the advancement of their project after completing the bootcamp. The objective of Safe motherhood alliance is to decrease the… Read more »
The Embassy of the United States of America to the Republic of Zambia Deputy Chief of Mission Christopher Krafft today launched the 2017/2018 Entrepreneurship Boot Camp for young Zambian entrepreneurs in collaboration with local technology and business incubation hub BongoHive. The goal of the Boot Camp program is to support development of youth entrepreneurship in… Read more »
On Monday 02/10/17, we hosted the launch of the Facebook Developer Circles: Lusaka. The developer Circles is a community for developers to come together, learn about the latest Facebook tools and collaborate on the interesting projects. The event attracted 40+ developers and tech enthusiasts from both the industry and educational institutions like The University of… Read more »
BongoHive, in partnership with the US Embassy Zambia announce the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp 2017/2018. The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp will support 60 aspiring entrepreneurs in the following themes: Social Impact, Media & entertainment, FinTech, eCommerce & retail, AgriBusiness/CleanTech/Energy, and Internet of things/Hardware over the course of twelve (12) months starting November 2017. Under each theme, participants in the… Read more »
TADHack, the only global meeting place for people (hackers, hustlers and hipsters: developers, business-types, and designers) who want to learn, share, code and create using the tools and technologies available in telecommunications. TADHack Global 2017 ran parallel across 30+ cities worldwide over the past two weekends, including Lusaka. A big thank you to everyone who took part in TADHack… Read more »
BongoHive has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide startups that have been through a BongoHive program with free hosting services on their Amazon Web Service platform. The offer from Amazon Web Services to BongoHive startups includes: free access to AWS and tools via AWS promotional credits (approx. 2 years) free and discounted… Read more »
Slush global has announced AgriComm, Outsource now and AgriSave as Slush Global Impact Accelerator (GIA) 2017 – Zambia winners. The three startups were all picked after emerging finalists at the local slush event BongoHive hosted on July 27 2017. Ten (10) Zambian impact startups were shortlisted to pitch at the event where Agricomm media, Outsource… Read more »
BongoHive, Lusaka’s technology and Innovation hub has announced some changes to the BongoHive Masterclasses, which come into effect on 18th September, 2017. NOTICE: This serves to inform the public and all interested parties that effective 18th September, 2017 the fees for the BongoHive Masterclass. The following prices will be applied to the BongoHive masterclasses: The… Read more »
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