PIVOT East 2015
East Africa's Premier Mobile Startups Competition and Conference
PIVOT EAST is East Africa’s premier mobile startups pitching competition held annually since 2011. It is an m:lab East Africa initiative to amplify and consolidate the gains of East Africa’s Mobile developer and entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Objectives of PIVOT EAST are:
- To consolidate recent gains of the regional mobile ecosystem and help direct the thinking from mobile applications to mobile entrepreneurship.
- To facilitate discovery of the next wave of high potential mobile startups.
- To sustain the push towards mobile innovations being high in the agenda of regional governments, corporates and development agencies.
- To raise the quality of mobile startups in the region and to improve their investibility.
Check out the Top 50 semifinalist of the competition HERE.
Check out the judges of the competition HERE
Open Call for application |
1st april |
Close call for application |
17th May |
Selection and Announcement of top 50 |
21st – 3rd June |
Semifinalists Announcement |
4th June |
Submission of Documents by Semifinalists |
5th- 11th June |
Selection of top 25 |
12th- 21st June |
Finalists Announcement |
23rd June |
Pitching Coaching and Training (two mock pitches a week – Monday and Friday) |
24th June -19th July |
Full day Workshop(to have sponsors, a mentor, an alumni and an investor) |
19th/ 29th July |
Main Pitching Conference |
22nd July |
Go to: http://www.pivoteast.com/
Overview
| Website | Visit website |
| Location | Ngong Road, Nairobi, Kenya |
| Targets |
Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda
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| Sectors | EdTech, HealthTech, Mobile |