Open Call: Jasiri Talent Investor Programme

The programme offers fellows the time and resources needed to identify Market-Creating Innovations and achieve product-market fit.

Jasiri employs a competency-based approach to identify and nurture entrepreneurs, emphasizing the need for patient and comprehensive support to address their challenges and developmental needs. The programme’s main objective is to remove systemic barriers that impede entrepreneurs’ progress and allow them to focus on the venture creation process. It’s structured to eliminate hindrances at the individual, team, business, and financial levels, creating a supportive environment for entrepreneurial success.

The Jasiri Talent Investor Programme is a 13-month programme with a unique approach to entrepreneurship development. Rather than investing in existing businesses or teams, the programme focus is on identifying individuals with exceptional potential as co-founders. They bring selected individuals together and offer you an optimal environment to form founding teams and rapidly experiment with their ideas to bring forth a venture. They offer a financial package to every successful fellow to remove financial barriers that could prevent them from excelling in their pursuit of entrepreneurship. More to that, Fellows gain access to a diverse pool of business coaches, industry experts and advisors. Their ultimate goal is to pinpoint and invest in startups with significant potential for large-scale success, what they call Market-Creating innovations.

Funding Information

• Team Formation, Customer Discovery & Problem Validation
  • Flight and/or transportation from their current place of residence to the Residential Site in Kigali.
  • A monthly stipend equivalent to RWF 317,145, KES39,463, 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.
• Access to coaching, and industry experts.

Eligibility Criteria

• You are:
  • An Ethiopian, Kenyan, or Rwandan residing in your country or diaspora.
  • Ready to pursue entrepreneurship full-time as a career, and spend three months of Residential Intensive in Rwanda.
  • Well-informed and skilled in your professional field, adept at identifying gaps and opportunities within your sector of interest.
  • Committed to launching a new, innovative venture with potential for rapid growth.
  • Historically an achiever, problem solver, and value creator wherever you have focused your attention.
  • Collaborative, eager to meet equally ambitious peers within your cohort, and co-found ventures from scratch.
  • Women aspiring entrepreneurs are highly encouraged to apply.

For more information, visit Jasiri.