Entrepreneurship Program – Standard Chartered Women in Tech Program, Kenya – Apply by 28.05.2023

The Standard Chartered Women in Technology Incubator Kenya is Africa’s leading women in tech incubator, aligning with calls for more diversity in technology and for more opportunities for women to develop entrepreneurial and leadership excellence.

⏳Closing date

28/05/2023

💡Program Targets

We are seeking to recruit the best entrepreneurial minds, women-led tech startups as key drivers of innovation in business.
The principle founder must be:

  1. A woman.
  2. Above 18 years of age.
  3. Of Kenyan nationality or permanent residency.

🎯Purpose

The program is an initiative of Standard Chartered in partnership with Strathmore University’s @iBizAfrica incubator. It combines world-class startup support with local and international experience to provide Africa’s most competitive and attractive startup incubation program focusing on immersive learning, mentorship, building and growing Africa’s next iconic startups taking on the continent’s most relevant challenges and opportunities with the support of seed capital.

🎁Program Benefits

  1. 12 weeks of an immersive learning experience
  2. Access to a leading network of coaching experts
  3. Access to B2B networking opportunities
  4. Personalized mentorship sessions to address your unique business needs
  5. Opportunity to join a supportive Women in Tech Alumni Network
  6. KES 1,000,000 equity-free grant seed funding for the top 7 finalists
  7. 9 months ongoing support from Standard Chartered and @iBizAfrica to assist with go-to-market and scale for the top 7 finalists.

✔️Requirements for program participation

  1. The startups must be Kenyan registered companies which are building technological solutions aimed at mitigating Kenyan socio-economic challenges.
  2. The selected startup ventures may be sector agnostic.
  3. The startup ventures must embed components of emerging technologies in building their solutions ie. Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things; Big Data; Machine Learning; Robotics; Augmented & Virtual Reality; 3D & 4D Printing; Cloud Computing; Big Data; Blockchain; Drone Technology and Biometrics e.t.c within their respective sectors.
  4. The applicants must be Women led startup ventures and the teams should be made up of at least 50% women.
  5. Principal applicant must be the founder with a majority stake.
  6. 3 months to less than 2 years of operation seeking support for proof of concept, customer, product and business model development.
  7. Pre-revenue with early traction (users). Post revenue is an added advantage.
  8. Not received investment of more than KES. 500,000 and not participated in a similar program in the last 1 year.
  9. Companies solving for any of the 17 SDGs.

🗓️Agenda

  1. Call for applications: Tuesday, 28th March to Sunday, 28th May 2023
  2. Application Shortlisting: Monday, 29th May to Friday, 2nd June 2023
  3. Pitch Preparation Bootcamp: Thursday, 8th June to Friday, 9th June 2023
  4. Pitches: Monday, 12th June to Thursday, 15th June
  5. Top 15 Notification: Tuesday, 20th June 2023
  6. Top 15 Incubation: Monday, 26th June to Friday, 13th October 2023
  7. Cohort 6 & Alumni Townhalls: October & November 2023
  8. Demo Day and Top 7 Award Ceremony: Wednesday, 22nd November 2023
  9. Acceleration Phase: Post Incubation Support for Cohort 6 Top 15

🌐Application:

➡️Apply HERE

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