DEMO Africa Pre-pitch Event to Go Down at the Hypercube Hub Zimbabwe

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hypercubeThe DEMO Africa pre-pitch event is set to go down at the Hypercube Hub in Harare on June 24th to meet and give feedback to all the startups participating.

The best start-up will get a direct nomination to DEMO Africa with ticket and accommodation fully paid for. Start-up teams can now register to interact with the DEMO Africa team in Harare.

In a statement, Rinesh Desai, Director at Hypercube Hub said, “Interacting with various entrepreneurs provides an amazing platform to unmask the gaps challenging the growth of entrepreneurship and this way various players are able to chat on various interventions and how best to put them in place.”

Zimbabwe is the third stop for the DEMO Africa team after Accra and Nairobi.

If you have a startup and haven’t applied to DEMO do it right away here before the June 30th 2015 deadline.

DEMO Africa 2015 edition is scheduled to take place between 21st and 25th of September at the Eko Hotel in Lagos, Nigeria. Delegate registration is already open and those wishing to attend can now register.

This year’s event is being organized in collaboration with the LIONS@FRICA partners (which include Microsoft, Nokia, US State Department, DEMO, USAID, African Development Bank, VC4Africa among others) and Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies.

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