Deadline: 17 March 2019
Applications to Injini Cohort 3- Africa’s first Edtech-dedicated incubation & Seed Investment Programme are now open. This programme is open to both for-profit & non-profit EdTech startups.
*For the first time ever, the Injini programme will be opened up to non-profits.
The Injini Cohort 3 programme will launch in May 2019. For this, 8 start-ups from across Africa will join the programme for 4 months during which they will deliver workshops, mentoring and networking as well as technology, research and dedicated support from the Injini team.
Injini run regular events across Africa aiming to bring together entrepreneurs, teachers and interested people to hear new edtech ideas and discuss how to take them forward in their community. Their meet ups are a great way to hear new edtech ideas and meet other people interested in raising standards in education through technology. They are free to attend, and have attracted over 400 people.
Funding Information
- Each start-up will be eligible for a ZAR 100k grant (ca. $7.5k), after which the cohort will compete for follow-on equity investment of up to $75k per startup.
Guiding Principles
- Africa leads, not follows
- The greatest challenge & opportunity in EdTech lies in Africa – it will produce the greatest innovations
- Grassroots ideas, global impact
- It will be teachers & entrepeneurs – not big bureaucracies – who realise technology’s potential in education
- Empower teachers, not replace them
- They will help teachers deepen & widen impact, not try (and fail) to make them obsoleteEvidence-driven, with a laser focus on results
- Evidence-driven, with a laser focus on results
- They should reject business-as-usual & embrace new ideas, but pay very close attention to the evidence of what works to improve education
Eligibility Criteria
- They actively encourage applications from any African country.
How to Apply
Applicants can apply online via given website.
For further information, please visit http://injini.co.za/
