Venture Incubation Programme
Program(s) Offered: Entrepreneurship
Program Level: StartUps
Provider: MTN Solution Space
Country to Work in: South Africa
Scholarship Description
MTN Group is looking for startups that are either building a sustainable Africa through digital solutions for health, education, agriculture, fintech, loose energy together with IoT, or enabling businesses through digital solutions for religion, sport, word together with e-commerce.
The Venture Incubation Programme (VIP) offers startups several key advantages. We’re located inward the middle of the V&A Waterfront, where startups are on the doorstep of Africa’s fastest growing tech hub. We offering proof-of-concept (POC) collaboration opportunities amongst our manufacture partner MTN Group together with a puddle of early-stage investors.
The VIP is designed to supply a supportive ecosystem to help startups construct feasible together with scalable innovation-driven companies. Startups accept access to a make of resources including co-working space, practical learning clinics, mentors, weekly check-ins together with staff advisors, together with a community of peers who acquire together with grow together.
Eligibility
DIGITAL STARTUPS: For our electrical current computer program at the Solution Space Waterfront nosotros are looking for startups that are developing digital solutions across health, education, agriculture, fintech, loose energy IoT, religion, sport, word together with e-commerce.
TEAM OF 2+: We’re non looking for unmarried founders, simply teams of at to the lowest degree 2 amongst the correct residue of skills together with might to build, examination together with deliver. The founder or bulk shareholder must endure the Pb player together with must accept the might to commit full-time to the programme over the 3 months.
PROTOTYPE / MVP: Most of our startups acquire inward amongst or together with thence form of draw of piece of work organisation case, early on version of a production together with a yoke of squad members. They accept a working paradigm amongst a minimum characteristic gear upward cook to behaviour early-market testing to farther industrial plant life production together with marketplace fit.
Program(s) Offered: Entrepreneurship
Program Level: StartUps
Provider: MTN Solution Space
Country to Work in: South Africa
Scholarship Description
MTN Group is looking for startups that are either building a sustainable Africa through digital solutions for health, education, agriculture, fintech, loose energy together with IoT, or enabling businesses through digital solutions for religion, sport, word together with e-commerce.
The Venture Incubation Programme (VIP) offers startups several key advantages. We’re located inward the middle of the V&A Waterfront, where startups are on the doorstep of Africa’s fastest growing tech hub. We offering proof-of-concept (POC) collaboration opportunities amongst our manufacture partner MTN Group together with a puddle of early-stage investors.
The VIP is designed to supply a supportive ecosystem to help startups construct feasible together with scalable innovation-driven companies. Startups accept access to a make of resources including co-working space, practical learning clinics, mentors, weekly check-ins together with staff advisors, together with a community of peers who acquire together with grow together.
Eligibility
DIGITAL STARTUPS: For our electrical current computer program at the Solution Space Waterfront nosotros are looking for startups that are developing digital solutions across health, education, agriculture, fintech, loose energy IoT, religion, sport, word together with e-commerce.
TEAM OF 2+: We’re non looking for unmarried founders, simply teams of at to the lowest degree 2 amongst the correct residue of skills together with might to build, examination together with deliver. The founder or bulk shareholder must endure the Pb player together with must accept the might to commit full-time to the programme over the 3 months.
PROTOTYPE / MVP: Most of our startups acquire inward amongst or together with thence form of draw of piece of work organisation case, early on version of a production together with a yoke of squad members. They accept a working paradigm amongst a minimum characteristic gear upward cook to behaviour early-market testing to farther industrial plant life production together with marketplace fit.
OPPORTUNITY & TRACTION: The initial concept evolution demonstrates deep together with intimate agreement of the work together with marketplace request or opportunity. The thought must accept progressed beyond concept together with should demonstrate evidence of early on marketplace testing, customers, revenues, patents or intellectual holding filings.
Eligible groups
Citizens of African countries
Participating Institutions
Solution Space Waterfront, University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business, South Africa
Fields of study
Focus Areas include:
Start appointment is third Apr 2018 together with End appointment is 30th June 2018
Scholarship benefits
MTN INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP: Selected startups volition gain access to MTN APIs, MTN Service Delivery Platform, MTN technical experts together with mentors to supply feedback together with guidance together with a bundle of back upward from technology scientific discipline partners.
FEEDBACK & GUIDANCE: Startups have valuable feedback together with guidance from our Entrepreneur-in-Residence together with network of experienced mentors together with manufacture partners. Each startup is paired amongst a mentor for the programme together with accept access to the Solution Space’s network of GSB alumni together with corporate partners.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP SKILLS: We apply a learning-by-doing approach. At workshops together with clinics, startups acquire founder fundamentals together with gist skills focused on moving the draw of piece of work organisation forward. Startups apply what they acquire through practical outcomes from each session.
ADVISORY SERVICES: Access to pro-bono partners together with a network of consultants to back upward amongst specialist expertise e.g. legal, HR, digital user experience, corporation capital.
CO-WORKING & COMMUNITY: We focus on edifice a vibrant community of entrepreneurs together with offering a calendar of regular events designed to increase a startup’s cognition together with expand their network. We prioritize peer learning together with mentoring through access to our co-working infinite together with regular office-hours.
Method of Application
ONLINE APPLICATION: Startups submit applications online inward January/February together with June/July each year, earlier the initial kickoff appointment of each Venture Incubation Programme.
PRE-SELECTION DESIGN SPRINT: The Solution Space squad reviews the applications together with the superlative thirty startups are selected to participate inward a five-day pattern sprint to assess the fundamentals of the draw of piece of work organisation together with the team.
PITCH TO Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 SELECTION PANEL: At the halt of the five-day pattern sprint, successful startups pitch to a terminal alternative panel of corporate partners, early-stage investors, mentors together with entrepreneurs.
FINAL SELECTION: The superlative 10-15 startups are selected to participate inward the three-month Venture Incubation Programme together with accelerate the evolution of their digital solution. Startups have mentorship together with preparation inward improver to all the services offered past times the Solution Space.
It is of import to read the FAQs together with likewise to see the official website (link to it is below) for consummate information
DEADLINES:
The deadline to apply is 28th Feb 2018
PLEASE NOTE:
The Solution Space was founded inward 2014 at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business. The university's Vice Chancellors Strategic Award provided initial capital, together with our Founding Partner, the MTN Group, provided pregnant back upward from 2015. Our vision is to endure known together with recognized for pioneering ideas that deport upon together with shape the hereafter of Africa. Our mission is to inspire, bring upward together with equip the side past times side generation of leaders to construct a ameliorate hereafter on the continent.
Application Deadline: 28 Feb 2018
Open to International Applicants: No (ONLY Africans)
More Scholarship Information together with Application
Related: Entrepreneurial Awards for Ideas together with Start-Ups
Eligible groups
Citizens of African countries
Participating Institutions
Solution Space Waterfront, University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business, South Africa
Fields of study
Focus Areas include:
- Fintech
- E-Commerce
- Energy Ed Tech
- Healthtech
- Sports together with News
- IOT
- Agtech
Start appointment is third Apr 2018 together with End appointment is 30th June 2018
Scholarship benefits
MTN INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP: Selected startups volition gain access to MTN APIs, MTN Service Delivery Platform, MTN technical experts together with mentors to supply feedback together with guidance together with a bundle of back upward from technology scientific discipline partners.
FEEDBACK & GUIDANCE: Startups have valuable feedback together with guidance from our Entrepreneur-in-Residence together with network of experienced mentors together with manufacture partners. Each startup is paired amongst a mentor for the programme together with accept access to the Solution Space’s network of GSB alumni together with corporate partners.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP SKILLS: We apply a learning-by-doing approach. At workshops together with clinics, startups acquire founder fundamentals together with gist skills focused on moving the draw of piece of work organisation forward. Startups apply what they acquire through practical outcomes from each session.
ADVISORY SERVICES: Access to pro-bono partners together with a network of consultants to back upward amongst specialist expertise e.g. legal, HR, digital user experience, corporation capital.
CO-WORKING & COMMUNITY: We focus on edifice a vibrant community of entrepreneurs together with offering a calendar of regular events designed to increase a startup’s cognition together with expand their network. We prioritize peer learning together with mentoring through access to our co-working infinite together with regular office-hours.
Method of Application
ONLINE APPLICATION: Startups submit applications online inward January/February together with June/July each year, earlier the initial kickoff appointment of each Venture Incubation Programme.
PRE-SELECTION DESIGN SPRINT: The Solution Space squad reviews the applications together with the superlative thirty startups are selected to participate inward a five-day pattern sprint to assess the fundamentals of the draw of piece of work organisation together with the team.
PITCH TO Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 SELECTION PANEL: At the halt of the five-day pattern sprint, successful startups pitch to a terminal alternative panel of corporate partners, early-stage investors, mentors together with entrepreneurs.
FINAL SELECTION: The superlative 10-15 startups are selected to participate inward the three-month Venture Incubation Programme together with accelerate the evolution of their digital solution. Startups have mentorship together with preparation inward improver to all the services offered past times the Solution Space.
It is of import to read the FAQs together with likewise to see the official website (link to it is below) for consummate information
DEADLINES:
The deadline to apply is 28th Feb 2018
PLEASE NOTE:
The Solution Space was founded inward 2014 at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business. The university's Vice Chancellors Strategic Award provided initial capital, together with our Founding Partner, the MTN Group, provided pregnant back upward from 2015. Our vision is to endure known together with recognized for pioneering ideas that deport upon together with shape the hereafter of Africa. Our mission is to inspire, bring upward together with equip the side past times side generation of leaders to construct a ameliorate hereafter on the continent.
Application Deadline: 28 Feb 2018
Open to International Applicants: No (ONLY Africans)
More Scholarship Information together with Application
Related: Entrepreneurial Awards for Ideas together with Start-Ups
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