Deadline: 31-Jan-22
Apply now for the Africa Blockchain Institute’s Incubator Program. This is a structured Incubator Program focused on grooming the African Blockchain StartUps, to spark creativity and ideas implementation around Distributed Ledger Technologies, insufficiently present in the Local Innovation and Entrepreneurship Landscape of Egypt and Zimbabwe.
Qualified candidates will be nurtured through a structured 4-Month course of Workshops, Training, Development, Mentor Sessions and Community Events, through facilitating connections with Investors and leading Blockchain Experts.
This is a structured Incubator Program focused on grooming the African Blockchain StartUps, to spark creativity and ideas implementation around Distributed Ledger Technologies, insufficiently present in the Local Innovation and Entrepreneurship Landscape of Egypt and Zimbabwe.
The Incubation Program will support and develop these turn-to-start solutions in growing their business, strengthening their commercial viability and increasing their competitiveness in domestic and international markets. Ultimately placing Africa as not only a technology recipient, but also a major actor.
Program details
The Incubation Program is the combination of the following areas:
- Blockchain Technology
- Provides overall insight into blockchain technology and connections with the industry.
- Business education
- Provides business knowledge, industry connections and introduction to investors.
Incubator Stream Features
The Blockchain Incubator Stream offers a robust set of resources for new founders to use to launch and scale a startup.
- Platform support
- Product development support from leading block chain platform providers.
- Access to Economists
- Market place and incentive design advice from world-leading economists.
- Business support
- Business development support from top-ranked experts at the African Leadership University.
- Business Guidance and Investor Access
- Meetings with a group of highly successful entrepreneurs and investors with expertise in scaling high-tech startups.
- Demo Day
- The program concludes with a Demo Day providing startups the opportunity to pitch their business to investors, experts, and the blockchain community.
Core Elements
The Incubation Program consists of the following core elements:
- Exclusive workshops and trainings.
- Mentoring program.
- Business coaching.
- Demo Day.
Eligibility Criteria
- They are looking for ambitious individuals that are forward thinking, innovative, and ready to take up challenges in creating the next big thing. These individuals must be dedicated, and committed to the project, hardworking, and with strong backgrounds in computer science (with expertise in languages such as C ++, Javascript, Python, and Solidity is an asset), mathematics, statistics, business / entrepreneurship, economics , cryptography, blockchain, and any other related fields.
- More specifically:
- Citizen of Egypt or Zimbabwe.
- Priorities are given to female applications.
- Must be between 20 – 35 years of age.
- Strong business case and market potential.
- Both idea stage and early-stage (1 year) companies are encouraged to apply.
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