Startup Programs

The Mt. Kenya Innovation week 2.0 awards increased from 5,000 USD last year to 10,000 USD for which we are grateful to our partners. We were able to award 3000 USD to the top 3 innovators. The awards went to; Soctrify Soctrify is an innovation project that works towards utilizing noise from factories, posho mills, speakers and clubs to generate electr …

SDG 1: No Poverty Fighting poverty is one of the major priorities of the event. We look at the barrier to entry to businesses by the youth, women and persons with disability. We bring on board a rich panel to discuss the Opportunities that SMEs have in the region and also try to solve the questions of access to capital by the SMEs. SDG 2: No Hunger Th …

In 2022 at The COP22 convention in Marrakech, one of the submissions on the Implementation of the Global Climate Observing System as well as Guidance relating to the clean development mechanism greatly influenced the Mt Kenya Innovation week 2022 Theme which was “Smart innovations for a clean economy”. In the Mt. Kenya Hub model, building ecosystems …

Rewards included but were not limited to; a prize pool of KSH 1 million, a spot in our subsequent acceleration program, investor networking opportunities and mentorship from relevant experts in tech and agri-tech fields. The first prize went to PopIt – an app that uses augmented reality to help online shoppers see, virtually, how items would …

As part of their applications, challenge participants were required to go through a series of co-creation and engagement activities. Doing so helped foster a spirit of and encouraged knowledge sharing in an innovative way. Hackathon participants first submitted an overview or proposal through the Mt. Kenya innovation week platform for the first lev …

The Mt Kenya Innovation week 1.0 featured a contest in innovation (167 submissions) and a hackathon (103 submissions), out of which 21 were shortlisted and the best five were selected and awarded. Apart from the competition, the week also saw that over 1000 women and youth were trained in various fields including, Business Canvas, Design Thinking, …

Mt. Kenya Hub launched the Mt. Kenya Innovation Week Challenge in 2021 as part of the Mt. Kenya Hub innovation and entrepreneurship grassroots impact platform. The challenges were an open competition where people present their ideas and projects to transform their communities through innovation. Mt. Kenya industrial innovation and investment week is …