Week 6 &7

I started my week with a meeting to deliberate over the 28 semi finalists and evaluated their performances based on the group interview sessions, Pitch Fest and  ratings from the investors that came during the mock pitch fest. We finally selected the 18 participants that qualified to participate in the program.

The enterprises we selected are from the following sectors:  software/game development /mobile money payment, health and water purification, clean energy, food and leather processing.

My team was able to recruit 11 mentors to participate in the program. The mentorship component is meant to strengthen the participant’s ability to implement the action points that will be identified in the first 5 of the 6 workshops.

The week was concluded with site visits to the Entrepreneurs at their places of work. W were able to meet some team members of certain enterprises we had not met before and we also got to vet the company registration documents such as the certificate for incorporation, memorandum of organization and tax certificates.

Selection of 18 Participants for the Vilcap Program and Site Visits to the Enterprises