The JASIRI TALENT INVESTOR identifies, selects and invests in aspiring entrepreneurs with the potential to create high-impact businesses.
TALENT INVESTOR: OVERVIEW
The Talent Investor is a fully-funded world-class region specific program, that follows a competency-based approach to developing entrepreneurs. The program is designed around a essential programmatic activities and a framework that links defined outcomes or progress criteria with corresponding interventions (offerings) to mitigate systemic barriers that hinder the formation of new ventures. The program introduces selected Fellows to equally ambitious co-founders and ensures that co-founding teams are equipped with the competencies to identify and establish Market-Creating Innovations.
The Talent Investor is composed of 5 key stages:
- Entrepreneurship Essentials
- Team Formation
- Prospecting
- Validation
- Venture Creation
TALENT INVESTOR: OFFERING
Jasiri invests in East-African Talent and start-ups at the early and high risk phases of a meaningful entrepreneurial journey. We introduce entrepreneurship development programs at two stages of the entrepreneurial journey:
Team Formation, Prospecting & Validation Kigali Residential
A Flight and/or transportation from current place of residence to Kigali will be provided for all selected participants.
Monthly stipend of $250.
Venture Creation
A Flight and transportation from Kigali to Nairobi will be provided to Founders choosing to establish their ventures in Kenya.
Monthly stipend of $1000.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
The JASIRI Growth Accelerator supports existing businesses with high growth potential to achieve key growth milestones and get ready for investment.
The Growth Accelerator focuses on startups from Rwanda or Kenya with market-creating innovations i.e. businesses solving difficult problems and providing goods or services to a large number of people.
These businesses must have achieved product-market fit. A lack of sufficient traction is a common cause of early-stage businesses’ struggle to fundraise.
APPLICATION PROCESS
JASIRI follows a competency-based approach to selecting and developing aspiring entrepreneurs for the Talent Investor.
Candidates are selected through a multi-stage Selection Process, which includes an applications, interviews, psychometrics and an online Selection Conference.
The process seeks to recruit and select high-potential aspiring entrepreneurs for the JASIRI Talent Investor and selected candidates will be supported to identify equally ambitious co-founders and to develop Market-Creating Innovations.
Applicants are challenged to apply for this one year, fully funded, full-time program NOW! Note: Application deadline for the 3rd Cohort closes on April 5th, 2023
SELECTION PROCESS
ASIRI follows a competency-based approach to selecting and developing aspiring entrepreneurs for the Talent Investor.
ASIRI follows a competency-based approach to selecting and developing aspiring entrepreneurs for the Talent Investor.
ASIRI follows a competency-based approach to selecting and developing aspiring entrepreneurs for the Talent Investor.
ASIRI follows a competency-based approach to selecting and developing aspiring entrepreneurs for the Talent Investor.
ASIRI follows a competency-based approach to selecting and developing aspiring entrepreneurs for the Talent Investor.
