{"id":3361,"date":"2022-04-09T09:55:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T08:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.adavault.com\/?p=3361"},"modified":"2022-04-09T09:56:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T08:56:53","slug":"start-up-incubator-for-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adavault.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/09\/start-up-incubator-for-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Start up incubator for Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Project Catalyst, the Cardano funding incubator for new start up companies has launched a focussed incubator for Africa in partnership with Iceaddis:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Input Output Global\u2019s Project Catalyst has launched&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ariob.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ariob<\/a>, an incubator scheme, in collaboration with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.cardano.org\/sessions\/building-community-in-africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">iceaddis<\/a>, a pan-African business incubator, and accelerator. Ariob means \u2018a collection of stars\u2019 in Ge\u2019ez, an ancient Semitic language of Ethiopia.<\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/iohk.io\/en\/blog\/posts\/2022\/04\/05\/project-catalyst-launches-incubator-for-africa\/\">https:\/\/iohk.io\/en\/blog\/posts\/2022\/04\/05\/project-catalyst-launches-incubator-for-africa\/<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It is very positive to see the focus on Africa being maintained. The continent has potential to be an incredible force for global growth in the 21st century and has the opportunity to skip across technology generations and to newer models of business. This could allow Africa to  dramatically exceed Western countries growth rates in the next 20-50 years, greatly improving life expectancy and living standards across the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It links well to the <a href=\"\/index.php\/2022\/01\/17\/world-mobile-deployment-plans\/\">World Mobile initiative<\/a> to democratise ownership of internet access, and provide an effective service that is orders of magnitude cheaper to access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Catalyst, the Cardano funding incubator for new start up companies has launched a focussed incubator for Africa in partnership with Iceaddis: Input Output Global\u2019s Project Catalyst has launched&nbsp;Ariob, an incubator scheme, in collaboration with&nbsp;iceaddis, a pan-African business incubator, and accelerator. 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