Nine startups from across the continent have been selected for the Katapult Africa Accelerator Programme, which provides access to US$150,000 in funding and other support. The Norway-based Katapult Accelerator has invested in a host of African startups, and also launched spin-offs such as Katapult Ocean and a climate-focused programme. As reported in March, it had partnered the Tony Blair
For Jonas Tesfu, a Norwegian with Eritrean roots, for everyone of those start-ups unable to grow, it is a chance foregone to solve real societal problems.
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The vision that drives Hira Rizvi, founder of Pakistan’s first carpooling app for women
Young tech entrepreneur Hira Batool Rizvi’s carpooling app She Kab offers women commuters in Pakistan a safe and efficient way to get to college or work. December 26, 2020 / 08:32 AM IST
This November, when Vodafone Institute’s Berlin-based F-Lane accelerator programme for businesses using technology to empower women was in progress, an unlikely participant was part of the online conference: a newborn baby.
But little Aaleen had been part of her mother Hira Batool Rizvi’s entrepreneurial venture even before birth as the 30-year-old founder of She’Kab – Pakistan’s first monthly carpooling app for women – managed operations remotely from Dubai during the pandemic.