- Jasiri Talent Investor offers a 13-month, fully funded journey for aspiring entrepreneurs, removing financial barriers to venture creation.
- The programme focuses on fostering ventures that have the potential to create significant social and economic impact.
- Participants receive mentorship, networking opportunities, and business development resources to guide them through the entrepreneurial process.
- Jasiri aims to develop entrepreneurs across Africa, supporting ventures that address pressing challenges within the continent.
Talent Investor
Dedicated to discovering and investing in promising entrepreneurs.
Partner Organisation: JASIRI
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The Jasiri Talent Investor programme is committed to discovering and investing in talented entrepreneurs with the potential to establish high-impact businesses. It’s a fully funded, 13-month programme that adopts a comprehensive, long-term approach to nurturing entrepreneurs. The programme offers fellows the necessary time and resources to identify Market-Creating Innovations and achieve product-market fit.
Jasiri takes a competency-based approach to identifying and nurturing entrepreneurs, focusing on providing patient and comprehensive support to address their challenges and developmental needs. The programme’s primary goal is to dismantle systemic barriers that hinder entrepreneurs’ progress, enabling them to concentrate on the venture creation process. It’s designed to remove obstacles at the individual, team, business, and financial levels, fostering a supportive environment for entrepreneurial success.
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Programme Overview
The Talent Investor is a well-funded initiative tailored to specific regions. It uses a competency-based approach to foster entrepreneurs, consisting of essential activities and a framework that aligns specific goals with the support required to overcome challenges in creating new businesses. The programme also facilitates the collaboration of selected fellows with like-minded co-founders, ensuring these teams possess the skills to discover and create Market-Creating Innovations.
The Talent Investor is divided into six key stages:
Jasiri JumpStart
Team Formation
Customer Discovery
Problem Validation
Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
Venture Creation
Application Process
Jasiri employs a competency-based approach to select and develop aspiring entrepreneurs for the Talent Investor programme. Candidates are selected through a multi-stage process that includes an entrepreneurial intentions survey, an innovation scenario assessment, psychometrics, and an online selection conference.
This process seeks to recruit and select high-potential aspiring entrepreneurs, who will be supported in identifying equally ambitious co-founders and developing Market-Creating Innovations. Applicants are encouraged to apply for this fully funded, full-time, 13-month programme NOW!
Ideal Candidate Profile
You are:
An Ethiopian, Kenyan, or Rwandan, residing in your country or diaspora.
Ready to pursue entrepreneurship full-time and commit to a three-month Residential Intensive in Rwanda.
Well-informed and skilled in your professional field, able to identify gaps and opportunities in your area of interest.
Committed to launching a new, innovative venture with potential for rapid growth.
A proven achiever, problem solver, and value creator in areas you have worked.
Collaborative and eager to meet ambitious peers within your cohort and co-found ventures from the ground up.
Aspiring women entrepreneurs are highly encouraged to apply.
Programme Offering
Team Formation, Customer Discovery & Validation at the Residential in Kigali
Flight and/or transportation from your current place of residence to the Residential Site in Kigali.
A monthly stipend equivalent to RWF 317,145, KES 39,463, or ETB 14,130.
Venture Creation
Flight and transportation from Kigali to Nairobi or Ethiopia.
A monthly stipend equivalent to RWF 1,268,580, KES 157,853, or ETB 56,521.
