Unreasonable East Africa Launches In Nairobi To Accelerate High Impact Social Ventures

Starting May 10-12, the 54 hour business accelerator is designed to capture the creative thinking, cooperation, and rapid ideation of Startup weekend while involving participants of different skill sets and backgrounds, a local community that includes entrepreneurs, mentors, funders, marketers, designers, MBA specialists, product managers, startup enthusiasts, students and people from all walks of life.BeUnreasonable Nairobi will focus on the business models and impact models of these ventures. Registration is open for 10-15 ventures and closes on 25th April 2013.

The entrepreneurs get to interact with top notch world class mentors, investors, funders, consultants and community of MBA students in order to be armed with the tools and skills needed to grow their social businesses to scale.

Targeting East Africa, Unreasonable East Africa is a 6-12 months social enterprise “growth based” accelerator business accelerator that involves bringing together the most daring and innovative 25 prolific social entrepreneurs from across East Africa under one roof where they can be provided with the adequate knowledge, capital, resources, tools and the connections needed grow their ventures through the pilot –roll out, growth and finally scale stage. They thus work to achieve a product-market fit, build innovative impact based business models for their ventures and get them profitable to scale.

Unreasonable East Africa is organised by Angels Initiatives and the Unreasonable Institute. Angels Initiatives  is a disruptive organization whose vision is to tackle some of humanity’s most pressing challenges through building a group of transformative social ventures.