Euphrasia Mapulanga is one of Griffinworx’s StartUp Academy 2015 first flight graduates. Euphrasia has spent the last 5 years growing her agribusiness with a focus on production. Being disabled, Euphrasia knows too well the stigma and discrimination that comes with her condition. At 32, she considers herself a living proof of a woman who, against all [...]
StartUp Cup Announces Nonprofit Status, Rebrands as GriffinWorx Change will Expand Opportunities for Entrepreneurs in More than 60 Countries August 4, 2016 StartUp Cup, a global network of entrepreneurial mobilization projects empowering communities, governments, and entrepreneurs from all backgrounds, is proud to announce that it has moved from for-profit to non-profit status and has renamed the [...]
StartUp Cup in partnership with the U.S. State Department, will implement the AWEP WECREATE | MALI Center in 2016-2017. The WECREATE Center, like both in Zambia and Kenya, will provide critical business information and tools specific to the needs of women business owners, a safe haven where networking and workshops take place on a regular basis, [...]
Othmane Bekkair with fellow entrepreneurs during Africa StartUp Cup 2016 in Accra, Ghana. A small rural Moroccan farmer lost his entire harvest one year. After spending months trying to figure out what went wrong, he ultimately learned he had planted too many crops, not allowing any of them to get the nutrients needed [...]
StartUp Cup, a global network of entrepreneurial mobilization projects empowering communities, governments, and entrepreneurs from all backgrounds, is proud to announce the World StartUp Cup 2016 Finals will be held in Washington, DC August 3-5. Over 1,000 startups and SME’s participated in 65 national competitions for the prestige of presenting at the world finals. Now the [...]
Accra, Ghana— Global entrepreneurship development agency StartUp Cup announced the top three winning teams of Africa StartUp Cup Challenge, a regional business model competition for startups from over thirteen StartUp Cup Challenges that took place in Africa in 2015 and 2016. The winning teams competed for in-kind donations, totaling to $229,000 of IBM, Amazon, Microsoft, and [...]
Originally appeared in Disrupt Africa 02.29.16 The maiden edition of the Africa StartUp Cup will take place in Ghana on April 28-30, bringing together winners of local competitions to pitch for the chance to compete at the World StartUp Cup. Winners from the 18 local StartUp Cups around Africa are eligible to travel to Ghana to [...]
StartUp Cup Executive Vice President, Dalia AlSaid, CEO & Founder of StartUp Cup & Co-Founder WECREATE, Sean Griffin, Program Manager | Entrepreneurship & Gender Adviser | U.S. Diplomat U.S. Department of State, Africa Bureau, Economic Regional Affairs, Fonta Gilliam, WECREATE | KENYA Grants Officer, Dr. Onsomu Onchonga during the launch celebration. Back in July [...]
If you have an idea for a product, service or other type of establishment, competing in the Antananarivo StartUp Cup may be the motivation you need to make your dream a reality! If you have recently started a business see how competing can help you get feedback and mentoring that takes you to the next level [...]
StartUp Cup in partnership with the U.S. State Department, will implement the WECREATE Challenge | PNG in Port Moresby and Goroka, Papua New Guinea in 2016-2017. The Challenge aims to develop women’s entrepreneurship through a nation-wide Acceleration program that utilizes a business model competition and mentor training program. Each step of the competitive process is tailored [...]
