DDQIC African Entrepreneurship 2024 Final Pitch Competition

The mission of DDQIC is to encourage, enable and support the innovation and entrepreneurship activities of students, professors, entrepreneurs and community members at Queen's University. We do this through incubators, accelerators, joint courses, workshops, internship opportunities, seminar series, conferences and business plan competitions.

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DDQIC African Entrepreneurship Final Pitch Competition 2024!

The Jim Leech Mastercard Foundation Fellowship on Entrepreneurship (JL MCF) is for African students and recent graduates who want to solve pressing problems and bring entrepreneurial ideas to life.The Dunin-Deshpande Queen's Innovation Centre organizes a final pitch competition every year to allow the top fellows of the program the opportunity to advance their early stage venture through funding and mentorship. Competitors will go through a series of rounds and receive coaching from the DDQIC team and members of the global network to improve their final pitch and receive non dilutive seed funding to further progress their venture.In 2024, over 1000 fellows were accepted into the 1st phase of the program, around 300 made it to the 2nd phase and 80 made it to the 3rd and final launch phase. After 8 months of rigorous training, mentorship and customer validation, the top 15 fellows of the final launch phase will compete in this final pitch competition for a prize pool of $20,000 CAD seed funding!The pitch competition will occur virtually, and we will host watch parties to watch the livestream at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada, and in several African countries and institutions, including Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, and more! See watch party locations confirmed addresses <a href="https://www.queensu.ca/alumni/events/african-watch-parties-ddqic-african-entrepreneurship-final-pitch-competition" title="https://www.queensu.ca/alumni/events/african-watch-parties-ddqic-african-entrepreneurship-final-pitch-competition" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>. Times by location: 9-11am EST&nbsp;1-3 pm GMT&nbsp;2-4 pm WAT&nbsp;3-5 pm CAT&nbsp;4-6 pm EAT&nbsp; You can select your in person location by Aug. 20th. Depending on your selection, we will send an email closer to the event date with further address and programming information. Since there are capacity limits, we will confirm your attendance via this email.* Please note we are not offering travel opportunities for the pitch competition, so please attend where you are able (virtually or in one of the locations above)* Please note this is an opportunity to attend the pitch competition and watch the top fellows pitch, and not to pitch yourself!In only 4 years, JLMCF has been tackling underemployment in Africa by training over 5000 students across 49 countries and 350 universities in entrepreneurial skills and awarding over $117,000 CAD to African founders and their ventures.Join us to celebrate the success of the JL MCF 2024 finalists and promote the next generation of African entrepreneurs!

DDQIC African Entrepreneurship 2024 Final Pitch Competition

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