Gentlemen, I hope this finds you well. I wanted to deliver this myself. But you know, COVID happened. That has become a very acceptable excuse for any meeting you don’t want to attend. When this year began, I know how excited you were—all the hopes and dreams you had. We thought, as entrepreneurs, we were going to take over the world. We thought this was finally the year when it all comes to life. That this is the year, we’ve been waiting for. And then as you know, the pandemic happened. We were all forced to go home, wash our…
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The Innovation Village, in partnership with Stanbic Bank and RocketHealth has launched a thought leadership report on the ‘Future of Retail in Uganda. The report documents the impact of the lockdown measures on businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on the trends redefining the sector and opportunity spaces for the retail ecosystem to ensure longer term sustainable economic development and business resilience. While launching the report at the Golden Tulip Hotel in Kampala on Thursday, CK Japheth, The Innovation Village Team Lead, noted that the retail sector in Uganda plays an important role in Uganda contributing an…
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The Innovation Village, through its FutureLab, hosted its inaugural Corporate Innovation Summit to kickstart open discussions on how best the corporate industry can incorporate an innovation culture with pathways of implementation, integration of latest technologies and the use of disruptive business models in discovering the untapped business opportunities. The summit hosted under the theme ‘Building a culture of innovation fueling business and economic recovery’ emphasized the need for collaboration among corporate entities and innovators to adopt innovations that go beyond the invention of new ideas and adopting the use of strategic guiding principle in every aspect of an organization. Speaking…
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The Innovation Village, through its EdTech Lab in partnership with Mastercard Foundation Young Africa Works and the Arizona State University Education for Humanity, has launched a business development programme dubbed ‘Future of Education’, a challenge with the aim to support businesses spearheading innovation in the education sector. The programme will be a highly selective and intensive 8-weeks programme for Uganda’s most promising education entrepreneurs, receiving expert guidance on how to navigate the education landscape and scale solutions via mentorship, peer learning, expert feedback and guidance from expert teams in the sector and implementing partners. While commenting on the new development,…
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The 97Fund, a Ugandan domiciled Open-end Investment Vehicle (HoldCo) that invests in high growth early stage companies in Africa, has launched a $1 Million COVID-19 Relief Fund (the “Fund”). The 97Fund is managed by Ortus Africa Capital. According to a statement from the organization, the Fund shall focus on Uganda and invest in solutions targeting and addressing challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and solutions that prepare Uganda for a post COVID-19 environment. The COVID-19 Relief Fund supports promising entrepreneurs to scale and develop solutions that will help Uganda emerge from the Coronavirus crisis and create competitive advantage for the…
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The 11th Edition of the annual CEO forum will ignite conversation on how the world is changing and progressing faster than ever, and explore ways corporates can stay ahead of the game through innovation and creativity. This is in addition to finding new ways to operate their businesses in order to stay in line with market developments and not fall behind on trends and innovations in their market. The virtual event, organized by CEO Summit Uganda, in partnership with The Innovation Village, Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development and Strathmore Business School, will happen on September 11, 2020 under…
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The leading Ugandan start up hub – The Innovation Village – secured two awards at the 2019 Top 100 Mid-sized Companies Award Gala held at Hotel Africana on Friday 29th November, 2019. The double awards – one for the fastest growing company and another for the most innovative company – were handed over to The Innovation Village Team at the awards gala following the Top 100 Mid-sized Companies Index Survey whose results were released last week. CK Japheth (middle) and flanked by his team from The Innovation Village In what was in reference to the struggles that entrepreneurs face, CK…
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