Ampion Venture Bus: an NGO’s mission to drive impactful innovation in Africa

There are various initiatives through which entrepreneurs can come together to ideate, develop, test and launch a product (and company) in Africa, but none of them sound as somehow crazy audacious as the impact driven non-profit, Ampion Venture Bus. Basically, participants are put on a bus which then travels through different countries, attending pitching events and building products as they go along.

If you consider the bad roads and restrictive nature of a bus, one would think it is not the ideal way to facilitate innovation and ensuring overall efficiency, but co-founder of Ampion Jan Schafft thinks otherwise. He tells Ventureburn that the concept of the Venture Bus brings a lot of lasting benefits to the African startup ecosystem and the budding entrepreneurs who join from all over the world — from the US, the UK and all over Europe.

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