Selected to participate in the first-ever “Accelerate with Djembe” program, which will help startups raise capital by improving their communication skills, are ten scale-ups from Africa and the Middle East.
Djembe Consultants is a communications consultancy that operates throughout Africa and the Middle East. Its goal is to become the preferred communications partner in the MEA region by bringing together local market capabilities, global expertise, and tailored solutions to provide clients with best-in-class services.
A communications-focused accelerator program, Accelerate with Djembe helps scale-ups in Africa and the Middle East raise capital by giving them access to advisory services and communications insight.
Ten scale-ups from a variety of industries, including manufacturing, transportation, energy, education, healthcare, and environmental services, have been chosen to participate following a selection process headed by Djembe CEO Mitchell Prather.
Three of the businesses—Baobab Circle, Bevis Africa, and Mzuri Organics—are based in Kenya. Each of Ghana (SolarTaxi and Stemaide Africa) and Nigeria (Cabax Farms and Lustre Plastics) has two representatives.
Egypt’s Saving System, the DUS Sustainability Research Center from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and YY ReGen from Lebanon round out the cohort.
These businesses will take part in Djembe’s comprehensive communications training program, which focuses on partnership development, investor relations, digital marketing, messaging, branding, crisis communications, and other crucial communication disciplines.
The aforementioned ventures will partake in an intensive communications training program offered by Djembe, which will center on critical communication disciplines such as branding, investor relations, digital marketing, crisis communications, media relations, partnership building, and messaging. To ensure that the first cohort group is ready for investment and has a strong growth story, more external industry experts will help with their continued development.
“The Djembe Consultants team was impressed with the quality of scale-ups who applied during the two months-long application process. The MEA region has proven once again that it has the potential to lead the next global revolution through innovation, and we remain committed to playing a pivotal role in providing MEA innovators with much-needed support. Accelerate with Djembe is designed with storytelling at its core, and we are excitingly looking forward to further developing and promoting the stories of these amazing scale-ups to potential funders and investors,” said Prather.
Accelerate with Djembe will kick off in August and run until November.
