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Highlights of the trek include:
- Meeting founders and executives from social enterprises such as M-Kopa, Optimetriks, M-Tiba, Uber, etc.
- Visiting incubators, such as Nairobi Garage (tech), iHub (tech), Merck (med), GSMA Innovation Fund (tech), etc.
- Meeting venture capitalists focusing on East Africa, such as Nest, Village Capital, etc.
- Networking with international development organizations and consultancies, such as UN, IFC, Mercy Corp, Dalberg,etc.
AND...WE NEVER FORGET THAT YOU WANT TO HAVE FUN TOO…
- Wildlife, Great Rift Valley, Hell’s Gate, Lake Naivasha, and Masai Mara (optional)
- Best pubs and clubs in Kenya (start your afro-beat dance practice)!!
- Taste delicious cuisines from all over the continent - Kenyan, Ethiopian, Ghanaian, Nigerian, South African…
- Shop at local city markets and even make your own Kenyan Kitenge dress
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*In case you haven’t heard about these awesome companies before -
- M-Kopa – Solar Light social enterprise that provides solar lighting on loan, and a credit history service – started by the founder of M-Pesa, Nick Hughes (LBS alumni), and just raised US$80m in capital
- Mastercard Labs – Mastercard’s Fintech lab focused on developing products and services for growth markets
- Optimetriks – Tech start-up transforming the FMCG market in Africa through crowdsourced distribution monitoring
- M-Tiba – Mobile health wallet social enterprise that is transforming the healthcare industry and growing at 200k users/month. Winner of the 2017 Financial Times/IFC Transformational Business Award.
- Uber East Africa – See the work Uber is doing to create new employment opportunities through the ‘gig economy’
- Nairobi Garage and iHub – East Africa’s largest start-up incubators which hosted global tech leaders like Mark Zuckerberg
- GSMA Innovation Fund – GSMA’s accelerator helping tech start-ups reach scale through funding and technical assistance
- Village Capital – venture capital fund focused on impact investing
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