JASIRI Talent Investor Programme 2024

The Jasiri Talent Investor programme is dedicated to discovering and investing in promising entrepreneurs with the potential to establish high-impact businesses. It’s a fully funded 13 month programme that takes a comprehensive, long-term approach to nurture entrepreneurs. The programme offers fellows the time and resources needed to identify Market-Creating Innovations and achieve product-market fit.
 
Jasiri employs a competency-based approach to identify and nurture entrepreneurs, emphasizing the need for patient and comprehensive support to address their challenges and developmental needs. The programme’s main objective is to remove systemic barriers that impede entrepreneurs’ progress and allow them to focus on the venture creation process. It’s structured to eliminate hindrances at the individual, team, business, and financial levels, creating a supportive environment for entrepreneurial success.

The Talent Investor is a well-funded programme tailored to specific regions. It uses a competency-based approach to nurture entrepreneurs. The programme consists of essential activities and a framework that connects specific goals with the support needed to overcome obstacles that can hinder the creation of new businesses. The programme also facilitates the collaboration of selected Fellows with like-minded co-founders, ensuring these teams have the skills to find and create Market-Creating Innovations.

The Talent Investor consists of six key stages:

• Jasiri JumpStart
• Team Formation
• Customer Discovery
• Problem Validation
• Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
• Venture Creation

• Table of Content
• About JASIRI
• JASIRI Talent Investor Programme
• Requirements for JASIRI Talent Investor Programme Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About JASIRI

JASIRI is supported by the Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropy. Allan Gray founded an investment management firm of the same name in 1973. Allan Gray’s client-centric, long-term investment approach has seen the company grow into one of the largest of its kind on the continent. Recently , the Gray family endowed their controlling interest in the firm to the Allan & Gill Gray Foundation in order to make a positive contribution to the common good. The Philanthropy is convinced that the biggest challenge facing the continent is youth unemployment, and that focused support of entrepreneurs... continue reading

JASIRI Talent Investor Programme

Requirements for JASIRI Talent Investor Programme Qualification

• An Ethiopian, Kenyan, or Rwandan residing in your country or diaspora.
• Ready to pursue entrepreneurship full-time as a career, and spend three months of Residential Intensive in Rwanda.
• Well-informed and skilled in your professional field, adept at identifying gaps and opportunities within your sector of interest.
• Committed to launching a new, innovative venture with potential for rapid growth.
• Historically an achiever, problem solver, and value creator wherever you have focused your attention.
• Collaborative, eager to meet equally ambitious peers within your cohort, and co-found ventures from scratch.

Application Deadline

How to Apply

Application Procedure

Jasiri follows a competency-based approach to selecting and developing aspiring entrepreneurs for the Talent Investor.
 
Candidates are selected through a multi-stage selection process, which includes an entrepreneurial intentions survey, an innovation scenario assessment, psychometrics and an online selection conference.
 
The process seeks to recruit and select high-potential aspiring entrepreneurs for the Jasiri Talent Investor and selected candidates will be supported to identify equally ambitious co-founders and to develop Market-Creating Innovations

For more details, visit JASIRI website.