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Heart of Smartness: A Tech Accelerator for Africa

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Alliy is managing partner of the Savannah Fund , a $10 million fund that will soon begin investing in technology startups in East Africa, including Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. So Mbwana Alliy is creating the Savannah Fund fund to help them.

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[Interview] Christopher Kape, Vancouver Executive, President of JAMCO Capital Partners

YoungUpstarts

He has gone on several service trips with his children, including a trip to rural Uganda with The Walking School Bus, and one to rural India with ME to WE. You value service work and have organized and traveled to rural Uganda and India with the mission to give back. Why do you think philanthropic work is important as an entrepreneur?

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Entrepreneur Helps Brings Clean Water

The Entrepreneurial Mind

Uganda has more than 10 million people without safe water to drink. The idea for the business came to Ku when she was a nineteen-year-old volunteer at a clinic in Uganda. Ku started her non-profit with $15,000 grant from Harvard and a donated piece of land in Kumi, Uganda where she built a ceramic factory to make water filters.

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Beyonic Wins the IBM Global Entrepreneur Pitch Competition

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Beyonic founder Luke Kyohere, from Uganda, said 20 percent of the $150 [.] The post Beyonic Wins the IBM Global Entrepreneur Pitch Competition appeared first on SiliconHills.

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[Sponsored] Clearbell’s Success Another Vindication Of Manish Chande’s Eye For A Good Deal

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Chande, whose family was expelled from Uganda by notorious dictator Idi Amin, has been a member of the board of the prestigious Land Securities, and was the CEO of Trillium, which broke new ground in the management of sale and lease-back property.

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Exploring The Everyday: Janji Wants You To Change The World By Running

View from Seed

This past fall we did Libya, the season before that we did Uganda, and we’re going to be doing Cambodia in 2019. So how do you go about picking the country to highlight and find artists or inspirations there? Every season we pick a different country.

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3 Big Lessons From African Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

In Uganda and Zambia it’s as low as 15% saying it would stop them starting a business , whereas in the US this figure stands at 34%. It’s hardly a surprise then that according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, African entrepreneurs score very highly on the self-confidence scale. But why is this?