Sharon Mwale
PRESS RELEASE: Yale Africa Startup Review Publishes the Second Annual #YASR30 List
The Second Annual #YASR30 List is here and YASR is back to honor another 30 startups in 15 countries, 30 more stories, and 68 new founders!
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Sharon Mwale
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Millions in Financing & Prestigious Awards: A Look Back At YASR30 2021.
Nominate your favorite African founders here for the opportunity to be selected for the second edition of #YASR30. Nominations close...
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Sharon Mwale
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In the News: Releaf #YASR30 2020
The distance between their farms and the nearest processor is key for smallholder farmers who need to process their crops. And though...
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Yale Africa Startup Review
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In the News: Pulse Ghana
In just one year of operating, Ingressive for Good, a tech nonprofit in Africa, has organically trained 66,570 African youths in tech,...
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Yale Africa Startup Review
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In the News: Hitotsubashi University Business School
Charlie, Nabe, Shige, and I joined the Yale Africa Startup Review this year, where our team, the "Otaku Four," collaborated with...
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Yale Africa Startup Review
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In the News: Techpoint.Africa
Located in the South-Eastern region of Africa, Malawi has 83% of its population living in rural communities. This explains the strong...
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Yale Africa Startup Review
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In the News: Business & Financial Times
A student and alumni-lead initiative at Yale University with a mission to share stories of innovation from the African Startup Ecosystem...
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Yale Africa Startup Review
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In the News: Monitor Uganda
Five Ugandan startups were featured in the Yale Africa Startup Reviews list. Volcano Coffee, Uganics Repellants, MScan, Flip Africa and...
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Yale Africa Startup Review
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In the News: Quartz Africa
The African health tech sector is booming, thanks in part to increased opportunities presented by the Covid-19 pandemic. The number of...
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Yale Africa Startup Review
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In the News: SME South Africa
DataProphet One of Four SA Startups Listed in the Yale Africa Startup Review This week the Yale Africa Startup Review (‘YASR’) published...
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Sharon Mwale
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PRESS RELEASE: Yale Africa Startup Review Publishes the Inaugural #YASR30 List
A student and alumni-lead initiative at Yale University with a mission to share stories of innovation from the African Startup Ecosystem...
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Yale Africa Startup Review
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In the News: Yale News
March 16 is set to see the release of the Yale Africa Startup Review’s first-ever #YASR30 list, which will feature 30 innovative startups...
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Kwame Amoako
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A Working Africa: The shared hope of Yale Africa Startup Review
“Is your belief in Africa’s future unshakable?” This question was asked in many different forms by Samuel Kitara ’20 MBA when he placed a...
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Sharon Mwale
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Behind the Criteria: Product-Market Fit
A good company continuously learns, that is why for product-market fit, we focus less on polish and more on clarity Most of the companies...
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Sharon Mwale
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Behind the Criteria: Attractiveness to Investors
Access to capital is one of the core tenets of the YASR mission and so we made sure the companies we selected were attractive investments...
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Samuel Kitara
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Behind the Criteria: Scalability
YASR measured scalability using five factors: the vertical, new customer acquisition, customer retention, recurring revenue and market...
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Samuel Kitara
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Behind the Criteria: Innovation
First things first, innovation does not equal high tech engineering Innovation is the second of five criteria which the Yale Africa...
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Samuel Kitara
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Behind the Criteria: Africa-Centricity
In the next few blog posts, we take you behind the scenes to share our five criteria, the first: Africa-centricity The Yale Africa...
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Yale Africa Startup Review
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In the News: Yale & the World
The Yale Africa Startup Review (YASR) is an annual Yale-wide Africa student-led feature of startups shaping the future of innovation and...
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Sharon Mwale
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Behind the Nomination Process: Yale Africa Startup Review
Introducing the Yale Startup Review At the Yale Africa Startup Review ('YASR' or 'Review'), we want to cover the full scale, dynamism and...
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