How to have more kids interested by STEM, Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics? Jade wanted to provide an answer to this question to be able to transmit her passion for STEM. What did she do? She created Katapult, a company aimed at having kids play with STEM to make them love STEM.
In this second episode of the Xmas Bazaar short series, we welcome Shamir, co-founder of AVR Plato, a startup focused on augmented reality technology and editor of AR Games. Shamir explains what AVR Plato was founded, his challenges and difficulties as a startuper, and how he overcame and got stronger!
We inaugurate this short series with Hisham, co-founder of Met Enn Koste, a Mauritian Startup. Because they were an online service, they got turned down by Xmas market organizers. This did not got them down, instead they decided to create their own, the Met Enn Koste Xmas Bazaar. We hear right
In this episode, we welcome Yvonne Bettkober, from Cameroon, who is the General Manager of Amazon Web Services Switzerland. We cannot but think about all the young professionals in Africa who dream about having a great career in tech and drive their own success! Yvonne is a real role model! Yvonne
Pivoting is an important aspect of any venture. We start with an idea and then a few weeks of months later, we find our market and pivot. In this episode, young entrepreneur Coralie Marti, from Gemstone, walks us through her entrepreneurship journey and focus on coherence. Coralie goes back memory
Take a young business school graduate from Cameroon. The logic would be to get a job in a big firm and strike a great career. But this was not the calling of Justin Lock. During his studies, Justin saw an opportunity in disrupting the remittance space that was clogged with
Ever heard the term “investment ready”? Well, if you aspire to raise some funding for your startup/venture, you’d better be investment ready. We tend to think money is lacking in Africa, compared to Europe, the US or Asia. But no, money is there, available… In this episode, Alexandra Fraser, Director
Djiba is currently a Senior FinTech Advisor at Ecobank Transnational. Before joining Ecobank, Djiba worked at Microsoft for over 10 years, as Developer and Platform Evangelist and then Head of Innovation Microsoft4Afrika, where she helped built the strategy to Identify and attract most successful Startup and Partners in Africa to
In this episode, we welcome and listen with fascination to McKevin Ayaba. McKevin is the CEO of “Setup a startup,” the CEO and co-founder of the “Southern Africa Startup Awards,” the Co-founder of the “House of Hope” orphanage in Cameroon and a Global Goodwill Ambassador. Add to this that he’s