Application for the Jasiri Talent Investor Program – 2021 Entry is now open by the Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropy (Gray Philanthropy) for all outstanding students in Kenya and Rwanda.
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.
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).
JASIRI TALENT INVESTOR PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY
Scholars are selected on the following criteria:
- A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university
- Age 25-35
- Significant experience in your field/sector
- A demonstrable history of entrepreneurial action
- A desire to meet equally ambitious co-founders
- A desire to learn how to ideate, validate, prototype and formalize a market creating venture
- Must be a citizen of Rwanda or Kenya
- Willingness to complete the one-year fully funded Talent Investor program on a full-time basis
- 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.
JASIRI TALENT INVESTOR PROGRAM APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
- Applications for the Talent Investor are now open. Please apply here: https://jasiri.rw/selection/
- The applications for the JASIRI Talent Investor close on 29 January 2023.
