StartupBus Africa so far…

Day 6

After a relatively short rest period at Riverlodge Backpackers, we made our way to Bandwith Barn — the oldest start-up incubator in Africa. Here we had breakfast as well as some much needed unlimited access to both Wifi and power.
We followed out visit to the Barn with a trip to 88mph where the buspreneurs got to network with English entrepreneurs affiliated with the International Conference on Electronics Computer Technology (ICECT). It was at 88mph that the bupreneurs took part in a panel about the African entrepreneurship space.

And, as you may have already ascertained, we don’t stop here at StartupBus Africa so our next stop was eKasi Entrepreneurs where we kicked-off pitching at 5pm! Our jury was made-up of a whole host of incredible people which included — at the venue — Brett Commaille (CEO at Angelhub), Manuel Koser (Silvertree Capital), Emilian Popa (CEO at sponsor African Internet Accelerator), Remo Giovanni Abbondandolo (CMO at sponsor African Internet Accelerator), Miranda Simrie (Managing Director at Crowdinvest), Kudzai Makomva (Deputy Country Director at Clinton Health Access Initiative Zimbabwe), and — remotely — Ben White (Founder and CEO at VC4Africa), as well as Ik Kanu (Vice President at sponsor Helios Investment Partners). The pitches yielded the following results: ‘Workforce’ claimed first prize, with Funeraly.ly and Bribed in joint second (For an awesome profile of the finals, see the Ventureburn article).

The pitching and judging process was followed by The Hook Up Dinner where the winners, ‘Workforce’, pitched for a second time.

And the buspreneurs kept going by ending StartupBus Africa in true style with partying on Long Street at Club 31 while yet others went bar hopping with the bus. What a wonderful finale to a truly phenomenal event, if we do say so ourselves.

Image: Bandwidth Barn welcomes the StartupBus Africa buspreneurs.

Image: The buspreneurs interacting with some amazing English entrepreneurs affiliated with the ICECT.

Image: The buspreneurs attend their final event, where ’Workforce’ pitched again, in the form of The Hook Up Dinner.