Ghana Establishes $2.7m YES Fund For Young Entrepreneurs
- Entrepreneurs, Money
- August 14, 2014
The Kaduna Start-up and Entrepreneurship Programme (KADSTEP) is a massive job creation project born out of a partnership between the Kaduna State Government, Kaduna Business School and the Bank of Industry. The project will see the launch of Kaduna’s first indigenous startup accelerator. Well, kind of. The Enterpreneurship Programme is scheduled to take 12 weeks.
READ MOREThis is great news especially if you run a South African, Nigerian or Kenyan startup. SA-based investor Silvertree Capital has indicated in an official statement that it’s searching for “top tier talent to invest in and work with” in these three African countries. This is a key focus, this year, for the investment executive team
READ MORENice one! A N25 billion Lagos State employment fund has been established to give loans to entrepreneurs at a ridiculous 1 percent interest rate! Even the much celebrated Central Bank of Nigeria’s N220 billion SME fund comes at a higher interest of 9 percent. Called Employment Trust Fund, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode during his election campaign
READ MORETony Elumelu, billionaire businessman and African entrepreneurship advocate has announced on Facebook that the second cycle of the TEEP foundation will be accepting a new set of applications from the 1st of January, 2016. The Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP) is decade-long $100m initiative designed to give training, mentorship and seed capital to 10,000 entrepreneurs
READ MOREWow! This is really a good and exciting news for all young Nigerian entrepreneurs with great business ideas. Total Nigeria PLC is totally doing it big this time with the 2015 start-up challenge which aims at financially and professionally helping young and budding entrepreneurs. The start up challenge which was innovated by Total Nigeria PLC
READ MOREKenya’s EdTech entrepreneur and founder of Kytabu, a textbook leasing application that allows users have access to digitized textbooks at 40% reduction of the normal price, Anthony Tonee Ndungu, has won $150,000 in the recently concluded African Entrepreneurship Award. The African Entrepreneurship Award created to help entrepreneurs start or grow their businesses with funds and quality mentoring
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