PIVOT East 2016

PIVOT EAST is East Africa’s premier 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 startups in the region and to improve their investibility.

For more details visit: www.pivoteast.com

TIMELINES
       
Close call for application         8th September (Extended to 13th September)    
       
Semifinalists Announcement    26th September   

Finalists Announcement            11th October   
       
Workshops                                  18th Oct – 10 Nov   
       
Main Pitching Conference         15th Nov   

PIVOT East 2016