GEN in Botswana

GEN and Ngwana Enterprises organized Botswana’s first Global Entrepreneurship Week campaign in 2014. It quickly became a mainstay annual event anchoring the ecosystem. As the campaign coalesced, GEN worked to improve coordination across startup sectors and align the support ecosystem. GEN laid the groundwork for a national business angel network and launched its monthly meetup program, Startup Huddle, in Gaborone to support Botswana’s entrepreneurs. GEN also connects Botswana’s founders to its global GEC events. GEC+Africa, GEN’s largest bi-annual gathering of entrepreneurial leaders, features a regional pitch competition. GEN maintains extensive relationships with Botswana’s ecosystem leaders and convenes a Botswana ecosystem development working group, which anchors the community by driving scale-up programming and cross-border collaborations.

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