At Rwanda ICT Chamber, we drive innovation and digital job creation in Rwanda and beyond through a variety of our impactful projects, initiatives, and affiliated companies.
Affiliated Companies
250Startups
250 STARTUPS Incubator is a multi-partner incubator and accelerator hub in Rwanda, dedicated to supporting innovative, technology-based startups. Since its inception in 2016, the incubation program has supported more than 100 startups in over 10 economic sectors; this included directly supporting over 130 technology founders, who were supported by over 150 interns from legal, finance, and business as well as technical i.e. engineering, particularly, supporting product development. Throughout the program, alumni have had a 75% survival rate as well as gone on to contribute to Rwanda’s digital economy with new solutions, more than 500 jobs, increased revenues, as well as recorded investments of over $500,000 in their first 3 years after program completion.
Digital Business Institute (DBI)
The DBI is the capacity-building and certifying arm of the Rwanda ICT Chamber. Through the identification of the actual needs and the targeted matching to capacity-building measures and resources for companies, DBI fosters the development of Rwanda ICT Companies in generating more revenues, digital exports, and investment on the global standard.
FabLab
FabLab Rwanda provides innovators and entrepreneurs with a space to turn innovative ideas into products specifically in the hardware and electronics domain. Additionally, the space provides a platform for capacity building and integration of hardware skills with software knowledge and quickly bringing Rwandan innovators closer to the Internet of Things era.
kLab
kLab (knowledge Lab) is a unique open technology hub in Kigali where students, fresh graduates, entrepreneurs, and innovators come to work on their ideas/projects to turn them into viable business models. kLab had implemented a variety of activities including the kLab freelancer's program, students internships, the kLab startup academy graduation, and the kLab future coders program.