Volunteer Spotlight: Elli Safari
In today’s Volunteer Spotlight – we feature our Head of Budgeting at Ambitious.Global - Elli Safari.
Volunteer Spotlight: Prince Fully
In today’s Volunteer Spotlight – we feature our Team Lead at Ambitious.Liberia - Prince Fully, a young, ambitious, driven and talented geologist from Liberia.
Sustainable Lean Six Sigma Course in Kigali, Rwanda
Two months ago, I travelled to the heart of Africa to teach the first Lean Six Sigma (LSS) Green Belt course at the University of Kigali (Rwanda) as part of our Complex Problem-Solving Project, run in conjunction with Ambitious.Africa and ESTIEM.
Volunteer Spotlight: Kristian Jakobsson
In today’s Volunteer Spotlight – we feature our Grants Manager - Kristian Jakobsson, a young, self-motivated and hardworking university student from Finland.
Volunteer Spotlight: Eustacia Morris
In today’s Volunteer Spotlight – we feature our former Head of Community and HR - Miss. Eustacia Morris, a young, brilliant and ambitious changemaker from South Africa (originally from Zimbabwe).
Meet Eden Tadesse, Our Chief Executive Officer from Ethiopia
Born and raised in Ethiopia, Eden is a 25-year-old social entrepreneur, digital innovator and human rights activist. As a proud non-conformist and global citizen, she is passionate about leveraging innovation, diversity and leadership to create sustainable solutions. Her professional experience spans across social innovation, activism, economic development, entrepreneurship and education ventures in Africa, India and the Nordics.
The Ambitious Africa Online Platform
By Alexander Gröning We are creating a Ambitious.Africa Online Platform where the community can gather in one place to work and collaborate towards our goals. As a community, we can share our experiences, support and guide each other. The online platform provides a unique opportunity to network between countries, areas of interest and partners. By having everything centralized we can work in unison and reach new heights.
Meet Emma, an Inspiring and Driven Kenyan Agripreneur
Emmaculate is a young, passionate, and innovative entrepreneur in agriculture. She is the CEO and Founder of Emmat AgroFarm Limited, an agribusiness investing in agriculture and innovation with the aim of fighting youth unemployment, hunger, and poverty through various collaborations and partnerships with various stakeholders.
It's a blockbuster funding year for African startups
By Conrad Onyango, bird - Africa is on track for its biggest startup fundraising year ever. With more African startups joining the "unicorn club", that's a trend that looks likely to continue.
Forbidden love, race and politics. How an African love story is getting global attention
By Seth Onyango, bird - Vuta N’kuvute, a film about a rebellious young freedom fighter’s love affair with a young Indian-Zanzibari girl escaping an oppressive arranged marriage is the latest addition to a growing number of African movies appealing to a global audience.
Bantaba is operational: The platform that allows startups from Africa to access talent and capital officially started its activities.
SavingOurselves: The podcast that looks into climate change through the lens of Nordic businesses
The ubiquity of climate change nowadays is only matched by its utmost gravity. While this issue concerns every single one of us, industry leaders have more responsibility for engaging in finding solutions for this scourge. It is exactly this group of people that Maija Luukka and Jennifer Ohemeng converse with in their 10 episodes podcast.
By Jasmin Nyqvist
Valid8: Meet the great minds behind the innovative pre-accelerator
Valid8 pre-accelerator comes to break the barriers of turning your ideas into reality. This is the second blog post about the Valid8 pre-accelerator launched by Ambitious.Africa, the Great Zambezi Initiative, and TampereES. In this blog, we will present to you our team and the motivation behind this innovative pre-accelerator that not only connects Zambezi startups but also brings a bridge with the Finnish ecosystem.
Ambitious Liberia: Monrovia Ecosystem Launch
The Monrovia Ecosystem is now officially launched and accessible to the public. It is found at KeysEcosystem.com/Monrovia. The launching event was held on May 21 2021 in the Auditorium, University of Liberia Capitol Hill Campus, and was merged with the University of Liberia E-learning Workshop which brought together university students, youth leaders, young aspiring entrepreneurs, and stakeholders. Thanks to Ambitious Liberia and Ambitious.Africa for building this online resource platform. The Monrovia Ecosystem is a visual representation of resources to connect entrepreneurs to co-working spaces, accelerators, startups, hubs, financial and higher learning institutions, competitions, etc.
Bantaba: The Bridge to African Talent and Resources
Bantaba is a digital platform that connects the African diaspora with start-ups in Africa. Hardly a year since they started: “Although we didn’t win the competition, it not only taught us the diaspora’s affinity to Africa but also the level of talent in this community. I mean we had people with backgrounds in renewable energy, aerospace engineering, machine learning, and cloud computing,” Lamin who is the CEO said.
Valid8 Pre-Accelerator: The Accelerator for the Future
Startups may be small companies but they can play a significant role in economic growth especially in Africa. They create more jobs, innovation, and change. We believe that startups are the driving force behind our future generation and, Valid8 Pre-accelerator advocates for the entrepreneurs in their early stage and support them to continue to foster innovation.
Ambitious.Africa x Home Street Home x LUTES: Building Entrepreneurial Mindset in Makongeni, Kenya
Ambitious.Africa, Home Street Home, and LUTES have joined forces to build an entrepreneurship bootcamp that encourages entrepreneurial mindset, provides hard skills, and inspires creative problem-solving for the Home Street Home community. We use the train-the-trainer concept for maximizing the impact and making it sustainable. The first edition of the three-day bootcamp with 25 participants will take place in May 2021 in Makongeni, Kenya.
Ambitious Zambia: Envisage Valid8 Bootcamp - Three Days Full of Innovation
Ambitious Zambia hosted Envisage Valid8 Bootcamp on 26th to 28th November in Lusaka, bringing youth together and teaching them entrepreneurial mindset and skills as well as creating an environment and support for piloting of innovations during the training process.
Promoting Access to Remote Learning during COVID-19: Ubongo’s Journey
Ubongo, meaning “brain” in Kiswahili, came to life in 2013 with the aim to help kids in Africa to learn, and leverage their learning to change their lives. Ubongo provides powerful edutainment solutions to make e-learning fun by using edu-cartoons and the power of media, like TV, radio, and mobile devices.