Value Creation Challenge 5 Incubation Program 2025 for Zimbabweans – YOA

Deadline: May 31, 2025

Applications are open for the Value Creation Challenge 5 Incubation Program 2025. The Value Creation Challenge 5 (VCC 5) is a nationwide incubation program of Eight2Five Innovation Hub powered by Old Mutual, in partnership with British Council, British Embassy, ZADT, SNV, Swiss Embassy, Delta Corporation, and the Embassy of Sweden.

As the Eight2Five Innovation Hub celebrates their fifth anniversary, they take pleasure in having empowered startups for the previous 5 years. The program offers skilled enterprise growth and studying alternatives, connections, and monetary assist to entrepreneurs and early-stage startups (0-3 years previous) with progressive prototypes or MVPs and within the early market stage. VCC facilitates enterprise growth by means of product incubation, enterprise growth methods, entry to networks and potential angel traders/off-takers and pre-seed funding.

VCC 2025 Pillars

• Innovative Tech: Solutions tackling a wide range of challenges utilizing expertise, together with AI, drones, large information, software program, {hardware}, fintech, insuretech, edutech, investech, agritech, vitality tech, and e-commerce.
• Creative Industries: Solutions with a give attention to vogue, music, literature, and gaming. The Creative Industry relies on particular person creativity, talent and expertise.
• Emerging Industries: Solutions utilizing progressive manufacturing strategies exploiting a distinct segment with excessive development and/or export potential.
• Sustainability: Solutions in renewable vitality, round economic system, sensible/sustainable agriculture, group and surroundings, local weather-sensible improvements, round packaging, waste administration, and water stewardship.

Benefits

Participating in VCC 5 provides you entry to:

• Expert mentorship from business leaders
• Business growth coaching to sharpen your entrepreneurial abilities
• Networking alternatives with fellow innovators, traders, and potential companions
• Exposure by means of program companions and media
• Potential funding and assist to launch or scale your online business

Eligibility

• Must be a Zimbabwean citizen above the age of 18 years;
• Must be the enterprise/concept proprietor and functions on behalf of a 3rd occasion is not going to be accepted;
• Business/ concept should fall beneath any one of many 4 pillars: Innovative Tech, Creative Industries, Emerging Industries, Sustainability;
• Business isn’t any older than 3 years on the time of making use of;
• Shortlisted candidates will must be accessible for at the least 4 days out of each month from June- September 2025.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Value Creation Challenge 5.