Chibok survivor wins SASIE pitch, champions women in tech

By Cynthia Alo

Mary Katambi, a subsister of the 2014 Chibok schoolhouse abduction, has emerged victor of the Sought After School of Innovation & Entrepreneurship (SASIE) Idea to Venture transportation finale with her startup, Kaiki, an online marketplace for sustainable manner and household items.

The Idea to Venture programme is SASIE’s flagship yearly grooming designed to instrumentality African women with tech startup ideas from conception to motorboat successful conscionable six weeks, guided by planetary experts and mentors.

Katambi, who turned her communicative of endurance into 1 of innovation, created Kaiki to beforehand recycling and sustainable living. Also recognized astatine the lawsuit was Dr. Irene Udebuana, laminitis of Robotprof, a climate-tech acquisition inaugural equipping children aged 7–16 with coding, robotics, and greenish exertion skills to hole them for a sustainable future.

SASIE founder, Dr. Jennifer D. Daniel, described the winners arsenic impervious of the transformative powerfulness of women successful tech.

“Mary and Irene embody precisely wherefore SASIE exists: to unlock bold ideas and physique almighty women-led ventures crossed the continent,” she said.

The 2 winners volition person a founder’s grant, mentorship, and the accidental to use arsenic pioneer ventures to the Eunoia VC incubator, on with media exposure, including a diagnostic connected Women Radio 91.7’s Startup Sisi.

Now successful its 2nd cohort, SASIE’s Idea to Venture programme has trained implicit 1,000 women founders crossed Africa successful conscionable 2 years, equipping them with knowledge, networks, and concern opportunities to alteration bold ideas into scalable ventures.

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