FINAL CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | JASIRI TALENT INVESTOR PROGRAM - CLOSING DATE: 29 JANUARY 2021

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Do you have an interest in learning how to ideate, validate, prototype and formalize a market creating venture? The JASIRI Talent Investor is a fully-funded 1-year program that will guide program participants from idea generation, validation, prototyping, market entry to venture creation. The program will introduce JASIRI Fellows to equally ambitious co-founders and will support them on an individual, team and business level.

 

Who/What is JASIRI?

JASIRI (meaning brave in Swahili) selects, develops, and funds high-potential aspiring entrepreneurs. JASIRI believes that entrepreneurial teams are at the heart of new venture creation and provides the entrepreneur with access to a diverse group of potential co-founders. JASIRI supports new ventures from idea generation to venture creation. JASIRI is supported by the Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropy (Gray Philanthropy).

 

What programs does JASIRI offer?

JASIRI Talent Investor: The JASIRI Talent Investor is a fully-funded 1-year program that will guide program participants from idea generation, validation, prototyping, market entry to venture creation. The program will introduce JASIRI Fellows to equally ambitious co-founders and will support them on an individual, team, and business level.

JASIRI Accelerator: The JASIRI ACCELERATOR invests in and supports companies with market-creating innovations.

 

When do applications for the JASIRI Talent Investor open

Applications for the Talent Investor are now open. Please apply here: https://jasiri.rw/selection/

 

Ideal Candidate

1.   A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university

2.   Age 25-35

3.   Significant experience in your field/sector

4.   A demonstrable history of entrepreneurial action

5.   A desire to meet equally ambitious co-founders

6.   A desire to learn how to ideate, validate, prototype and formalize a market creating venture

7.   Must be a citizen of Rwanda or Kenya

8.   Willingness to complete the one-year fully funded Talent Investor program on a full-time basis

9.   Willingness to travel to Kigali, Rwanda for a period of 3 months for the residential part of the program where teams are formed, and to continue with the remainder of the one-year full-time program in either Rwanda or Kenya.

 

HOW TO APPLY:
Visit the www.jasiri.org website and apply online!

 

FOR ENQUIRIES PLEASE CONTACT
enquiries@jasiri.org

 

 

APPLICATION DEADLINE: The applications for the JASIRI Talent Investor close on 29 January 2021. Please apply here: https://jasiri.rw/selection/

 

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