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Sustainable transformative value chains that create employment and wealth require startups and progressive development of new ventures so as to grow customer base and market, geographical coverage, firm turnover and profits. To this end, Origin Venture Growth School, admits innovator-entrepreneur-students with ventures that are along the value chains for a more long-term and deeper learning. The students receive education, systematically organized to support their venture development whilst progressing towards attainment of academic credentials. Additionally, they are equipped with practical skills and mentorship to build their resilience.
The initial cohort has fifteen innovator-entrepreneur-students representing founders and co-founders of thirteen scalable ventures based on innovations in the transformative value chains. Origin’s target for such scalable ventures is a total of fifty in the next two years.
Origin as a key industry partner. Origin creates the environment for the student-entrepreneur to succeed in his or her business ventures. At admission, Origin provides the student-entrepreneur with the tools and a platform to identify a great innovation by effectively scoping challenges whose solution have a potential for scaling up. Furthermore, students can enhance their chance of succeeding by selecting challenges from Origin’s list of transformative value chains that it has identified and developed over time; Origin can facilitate the student-entrepreneur to solve and implement solutions that are in its list of challenges. Subsequently, Origin brings on-board outstanding entrepreneurs to serve as role models, mentors and speakers; it runs a global network of top-tier entrepreneurship and innovation academics from Africa and diaspora to teach topics and/or units, supervise and mentor the student-entrepreneur; Origin organizes innovation and entrepreneurial activities including talks, seminars, workshops, and exhibitions, events; and very importantly, it arranges events to expose entrepreneurs to sources of capital: viz., equity funds, banks, angel investors and venture capitalist; Origin provides a platform for showcasing innovations.
Our Expertise
Our Mission
We create vigorous programs that help produce graduates with innovative entrepreneurial skills who can create, develop, and scale high-growth start-up companies, and successfully manage their growth in a rapidly evolving global business environment.