Thursday 28th September goes down as the day that the ViKtoria Business Angel Network was launched. The ViKtoria Business Angel Network (VBAN) brings together local and international angel investors who want to make investments in a syndicated manner by pooling their expertise and funds together. The focus of the investments is in tech start-ups in East […]
The 3rd edition of Nairobi Innovation Week (NIW) was held at the University of Nairobi Towers from 6th – 10th March 2017. The Nairobi Innovation Week is an initiative by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives which brings together partners from government, private sector and research centers with an aim of providing a platform for show-casing innovative […]
We thank all of you who indicated an interest in the recently concluded angel investor training event that was held on the 14th of March 2015 at the Strathmore University, with special thanks to those who managed to attend the event. The participants had an opportunity to learn about angel investing from experienced entrepreneurial finance practitioner […]
We thank all those of you who indicated an interest in the recently concluded angel investor event that was held on the 21st of February 2015 at the Strathmore University. The participants had a rare opportunity to listen to the experience of a startup, PesaPal, that gave an insight into the dangers of bringing in venture capitalists too […]
It is 7:15 PM on Wednesday 10th December 2014, and a group of young and ambitious innovators are pacing up and down the hall on the second floor of Acorn House, Nairobi. The team of inexperienced but ambitious techies is waiting to be ushered into the Training Room where they would be pitching their business to […]