The Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST), founded in Accra, Ghana in 2008, has set out to prove that a new generation of young, ambitious entrepreneurs can come from Africa.
MEST alumni have developed solutions addressing local and global markets, received outside follow-on funding from global investors, and have gained admittance to top accelerator programs such as Y-Combinator, 500 Startups and TechStars.
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11 May 2017
MEST is offering an intensive one-year training programme to the top 60 candidates from South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya and Cote D’ivoire.
Successful applicants will
- Be eligible to receive seed-funding of $50,000 – $100,000 (fifty thousand to one hundred thousand US dollars) from the Meltwater Foundation.
- Receive three meals a day,
- Receive a small monthly stipend.
The deadline for application in South Africa is March 10, 2017.
Credit: MEST Incubator 2017
Date Added: 30 Jan 2017
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