Standard Chartered Women in Tech Incubation Programme 2023

Deadline: 14th January 2023

The Standard Chartered Women in Technology Incubator, is Africa’s leading incubator programme for female-led and founded businesses. It aligns with calls for more diversity in technology, entrepreneurship and for more opportunities for women to develop entrepreneurial and leadership excellence. This speaks to the bank’s Sustainability and Community Engagement strategy and focuses on supporting innovation, infrastructure and technology.

This programme is an initiative of Standard Chartered Bank Zambia in partnership with BongoHive, following the successful implementation of the Women in Tech programme in Kenya, Nigeria and Bahrain to mention a few.

The key objective of the incubator programme is to help Zambian women entrepreneurs or business owners who want to or are using digital technology to grow their business but lack the necessary support. The programme is designed to provide targeted support in areas of business operations, digitisation and digital transformation, accounting and financial management. The outcome of the programme is to support female-led entrepreneurial teams with training, mentorship and seed funding.

Successful applicants will begin their journey with a 3-month incubation programme followed by a 6-month acceleration programme for selected participants from the incubation programme.

Timeline

Call for applications

23rd Nov 2022 – 14th Jan 2023

Application shortlisting

16th Jan – 27th Jan 2023

Shortlisting announcement

31st Jan 2023

Bootcamp (top 40)

6th Feb – 10th Feb 2023

Bootcamp pitches

15th Feb – 17th Feb 2023

Top 10 notifications

21st Feb 2023

Incubation phase

6th March – 26th May 2023

Demo day and award ceremony

9th June and 16th June 2023

Acceleration phase (post incubation support)

21st June – 21st Nov 2023

Supporting Zambian female-led businesses

Contact Us

Call: +26 095 301 7526

Email:info@scwomenintech.co.zm

BongoHive Technology & Innovation Hub

19 Katima Mulilo Road, Olympia Park, Lusaka, Zambia