Kenya’s GrowthHub Partners With the bestseller Fund to Accelerate the Country’s Agribusiness Startups

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bestseller-geos-to-africa-1-web-project-pageThe GrowthHub; a Nairobi based business accelerator has partnered with Bestseller Fund to run a 16 week program to accelerate 13 agribusiness startups in Kenya in a move to solve pressing problems in the agricultural value chain other than primary farming.

Dubbed the Agribusiness Innovation programme, the initiative aims at helping local entrepreneurs to create high impact businesses creating employment and income generating opportunities for youths and small holder farmers respectively.

The 13 startups will work with facilitators, mentors and their peers after which, 5 of the most viable ones receive $5,000 each to develop a prototype, pilot and launch their innovation in the market.

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Established in 1995 as an independent charitable organisation , BESTSELLER FUND does humanitarian work and supports various cultural initiatives and development projects in Denmark, China, India and Africa in order to secure a sustainable and socially equitable economic development for the poor and preserve cultural heritage.

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Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Sam Wakoba is a pan-African technology journalist, author, entrepreneur, technology business mentor, judge, educationalist, and a sought-after speaker and panelist across Africa’s innovation ecosystem. He is the convenor of the popular monthly #TechNight evening event and the #StartupEast Awards and Conference, platforms that bring together startup founders, developers, entrepreneurs, investors, content creators, and tech professionals from across the continent. For more than 16 years, Sam has reported on and analysed Africa’s technology landscape, covering some of the continent’s most impactful, and at times controversial policies, programs, investors, co-founders, startups, and corporations. His work is known for its independence, depth, and fairness, with a singular goal of helping build and strengthen Africa’s nascent technology ecosystem. Beyond journalism, Sam is a business analyst and consultant, working with brands, universities, corporates, SMEs, and startups across East Africa, as well as international companies entering the East African market or scaling across Africa. In his free time, he volunteers as a consulting editor and fintech analyst at Business Tech Kenya, a business, technology, and data firm that publishes reports, reviews, and insights on business and technology trends in Kenya. Follow him on X: @SamWakoba