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Kenya’s next startup should not need a Nairobi postcode
The Association of Countrywide Innovation Hubs connects Kenya’s regional hubs to training, partners and opportunity. Its most useful innovation may be making distance matter less.
KenKo Ventures is building the startup room outside Cairo
In Egypt’s Nile Delta, KenKo Ventures runs the workshops, mentoring and hub operations that help founders get started. Its next proposition connects that local work to business growth across Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Ubulu Africa and the work before the pitch
A Lagos venture builder is tackling the less glamorous side of African innovation: choosing startups, preparing founders and training the people who help them grow. Its InnoX platform puts that work into software.
ASSEK backs the people behind Kenya’s startups
Kenya has incubators, accelerators and business coaches. ASSEK’s bet is that helping them work better together can reach further than another startup programme.
CREATIVA is taking Egypt’s startup map beyond Cairo
Egypt’s public innovation hubs bring training, workspace and startup support to university cities across the country. The interesting part is what happens between learning a skill and finding someone willing to pay for it.
AfriLabs bets on the people behind the startups
A network of more than 500 innovation hubs is trying to make African entrepreneurship less lonely - and better financed. Its experience shows why the people running the support system need support of their own.
Lisbon Put €8 Million Into a ‘Unicorn Factory.’ The Clever Part Wasn’t the Name.
A delayed factory campus became a citywide startup system: one front door for founders, scaleups, investors and corporations - and a useful lesson in how a city can turn real estate into an operating network.