Co-creation Hub (CcHUB), Africa’s largest digital innovation hub, has announced its expansion to Tanzania on Twitter.
CcHUB, which has declared that it has touched down and expanded its footprint further south of the continent, is dedicated to increasing social capital and technology in Africa for economic success. The expansion to Tanzania is a significant step towards that goal.
CcHUB, Africa’s largest innovation hub, launch a $15 million accelerator initiative called “The Edtech Fellowship Programme” in April 2023 to build and foster 72 Nigerian and Kenyan startups over three years. The program’s goal is to foster creative and innovative thinking in Tanzania and other African countries.
Startups all around Africa have benefited from the hun’s help. When CcHUB bought Kenyan tech incubator iHub in September 2019, it became one of Africa’s fastest-growing mega-incubators. The continental expansion of CcHUB provides entrepreneurs with resources, mentorship, and financing.
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Drive for CcHub Expansion
Bosun Tijani and Femi Longe created Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) in October 2010. Although it was established in 2010, the hub did not become a social innovation centre until September 2011.
CcHub announced a $60 million Growth Capital Fund after several years. LifeBank, a startup social innovation fund, received $75,000; Riby Finance received $100,000; Delivery Science received $150,000; and Edves received $60,000
As part of its purpose to support and contribute to the growth and development of startups across Africa, CcHub has worked tirelessly to help entrepreneurs in diverse parts of the continent access and expand into new markets.
CcHub’s Seedr project began in Botswana. The Seedr programme, according to it, is a 6-month acceleration effort for early-stage technology firms in developing ecosystems with the potential to scale and make an impact.
“Through the Seedr programme, CcHUB aims to work with impact-driven founders to help them develop their startups into sustainable entities and raise funding through its syndicate platform.”
In 2019, the innovation centre established its CcHUB Design Lab in Kigali, Rwanda. The Design Hub, the first of its kind, was established to be a leading creative space where its multidisciplinary team of product designers and engineers will collaborate with scientists and stakeholders from around the world to investigate the application of emerging technologies to solve Africa’s systemic problems in public health, education, governance, and the private sector.
Shortly after the design lab’s launch, CcHub purchased Kenyan tech incubator iHub. When CcHub purchased the Nairobi-based hub, it became one of Africa’s fastest-growing mega-incubators.
Over the last 10 years, the centre has been a significant help to entrepreneurs, successfully launching over 650 cutting-edge digital enterprises. It’s encouraging to see African entrepreneurs addressing pressing societal issues including budget transparency, physical fitness, education, finance, healthcare delivery, and sustainability.
About CcHub Founders
Bosun Tijani and Femi Longe founded Co-Creation Hub in October 2010. It opened in September 2011 as a social innovation centre at 294 Herbert Macaulay Street, Yaba, as an open living lab to accelerate social capital and technology for economic success. A community of progressive stakeholders (end-users, subject-matter specialists, government agencies, corporations, academia, civil societies, etc.) combine their creativity and knowledge to co-create solutions to societal issues facing the typical Nigerian.
CcHub pre-incubation and research mentors and sponsors entrepreneurial breakthroughs. The CcHub houses over 50 Nigerian companies, including BudgIT, Wecyclers, Truppr, Genii Games, Lifebank, GoMyWay, Vacantboards, Traclist, Autobox, Stutern, Findworka, Grit Systems, and Mamalette.
In March 2018, Stanbic IBTC Bank opened the Co-Creation Hub-supported Blue Lab innovation hub.
Growth Capital was founded in December 2015 by Tijani, BoI, VGG, and ON. It is an investment arm that will invest 1 billion naira in social tech enterprises that produce smart technologies that connect public services to citizens or smart technologies that integrate public services to make them more accessible to residents.
