{"id":165,"date":"2013-12-18T12:32:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T04:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.www.innovationiseverywhere.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2013-12-18T12:32:41","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T04:32:41","slug":"demo-day-nairobi-kenya-local-innovation-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/demo-day-nairobi-kenya-local-innovation-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"A demo day in Nairobi, Kenya: local innovation rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.afrikoin.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Afrikoin<\/a>\u00a0conference in Nairobi, we were lucky to attend\u00a0<strong>the Demo Day of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.savannah.vc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Savannah Fund<\/a><\/strong>, a Kenya-based VC betting on startups all over Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Since\u00a0a picture is often worth a thousand words, I&rsquo;ll leave you to browse this\u00a0<strong>Slideshare documenting the exciting ideas presented at Demo Day. <\/strong>Encouragingly, the startups are all focusing on local needs and contexts\u00a0(remittance from the diaspora, gap of information in the forex market, distribution of aid vouchers, strong need for mobile e-commerce platforms).<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Startups from Africa (2013) following the Savannah Fund Demo Day in Nairobi, Kenya\" src=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/key\/FEsMCEG9xhN6N7\" width=\"427\" height=\"356\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe> <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"> <strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/AgenceTesla\/startups-from-africa-2013-following-the-savannah-fund-demo-day-in-nairobi-kenya\" title=\"Startups from Africa (2013) following the Savannah Fund Demo Day in Nairobi, Kenya\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Startups from Africa (2013) following the Savannah Fund Demo Day in Nairobi, Kenya<\/a> <\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/AgenceTesla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agence Tesla<\/a><\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>I was also struck by\u00a0<strong>the professionalism of the teams and their comprehensive decks<\/strong>, with loads of statistics on their market research and intimate details about their trials, roadmaps and business models.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy this piece of tech from Africa \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Martin Pasquier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the\u00a0Afrikoin\u00a0conference in Nairobi, we were lucky to attend\u00a0the Demo Day of the\u00a0Savannah Fund, a Kenya-based VC betting on startups all over Africa. Since\u00a0a picture is often worth a thousand words, I&rsquo;ll leave you to browse this\u00a0Slideshare documenting the exciting ideas presented at Demo Day. Encouragingly, the startups are all focusing on local needs and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47,52,49,51,87],"tags":[69,111,78,117,103,115],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-countries","category-events-innovators","category-innovators-category","category-markets-category","category-startups-innovators","tag-africa","tag-east-africa","tag-kenya","tag-nairobi","tag-startups","tag-uganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}