Local startups attend Silicon Valley BootcampKingson Capital, a South African based venture capital firm, has sent five South African tech startups to Silicon Valley as part of their first Silicon Valley Bootcamp programme. Source: © uschools via www.gettyimages.com In August 2019, in partnership with AKRO Accelerate, Kingson held the inaugural Kingson Akro Pitch Event in Cape Town. Twenty pre-selected tech startups were given the opportunity to pitch their businesses to a panel of experts, including the Kingson team. Out of this event, ten startups were selected to pitch again, and with input from Kingson’s Silicon Valley startup advisor, Paul Kallmes, five startups were selected. They include Eevly, Flamelink, iMpilo, Khoyn and ParkUpp. They will be travelling to the United States for the two-week boot camp on Friday, 17 January. The boot camp is an intense two-week workshop, which kicked off on Monday, 20 January 2020, that will bring the five startups face-to-face with leading Silicon Valley experts on everything from startup scaling and implementation to social media marketing and team dynamics. There will be networking opportunities, one-on-one mentorship and valuable advice on how to plan, develop and execute on their business strategies. Daily classroom-style sessions will be interspersed with networking events, and valuable reflection time to ensure the startups receive the full benefit of the experience. The two-week programme will end with a pitch event in the centre of San Francisco’s financial district, where the startups will be given the opportunity to pitch to a panel of US investors. More about the selected startupsThe five startups who will head off to San Francisco are:
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