The Ingenious City offers support to startups and promising projects by ensuring them the room and professional conditions they need to run efficiently.
We make sure young emerging companies grow successful firms by easing their access to mentorship and putting them in
touch with investors until they actually establish themselves in the business.

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Incubation and acceleration lab

 We are a center that aims to incubate and promote nascent companies, that trains for entrepreneurship skills and that links in people committed to socio-economic growth in DRC.

Welcome to

Ingenious City

Since it was launched in 2018, the Ingenious City’s journey has been about

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Ingenious City is a key hub where change-makers in the DRC can connect and build impactful solutions together.

The place to be !

If you want to have an impact on the lives of people in the DRC, we can collaborate.

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Learn, Network, Start.

Develop your entrepreneurial project and your innovative solutions, Join a network of actors of change in the DRC in a dedicated space, Ingenious City.

The impact you want to create in the DRC starts here !

Follow all the Ingenious City news here: actions, projects, partnerships, etc.

## Overview of the process

After receiving more than 400 applications for this 4th Cohort, 56 candidates were invited to participate in the 3-day bootcamp organized within the Ingenious City incubator which manages this program.

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- On Friday, February 17, 2022, the successful candidates for this stage participated in a contact session with the management team and training on the project pitch exercise.

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- Tuesday, February 21, 20221 will have been an opportunity for each candidate to refine their business idea by discussing with mentors the various aspects useful to the viability of their project.

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- On Thursday, February 24, 2022, place for the pitch session in front of the members of the jury. The time had come for each candidate to present their business idea to the members of the jury in a time limit of 3 minutes before answering the various questions related to their business.

It is at the end of this process that the following candidates were selected :
- Abraham Abdiel
- Andy Emone
- Antoinette Muinda Kayembe
- Aurélie Nguwa
- Benjamin Bamwishi
- Bertheline Mantobo
- Elvis Makasi
- Ephraïm Mboti
- Eric Kopi
- Etienne Bamata
- Francis Tambu
- Gaylord Kasayi
- Harmonie Balenda 
- Harry Ben Bossuki 
- Henock Mukendi
- Meldi Akelax
- Milka Ntambwe
- Mwami Ngabo Cizungu
- Noella Welly
- Paradoxe Mangalaboy
- Rebecca Kindombe Malenga
- Triphene Nzo-Bazola


Remember that the Orange Corners DRC incubation program involves the development of entrepreneurial projects but also the capacity building of project leaders for a period of 6 months with free access to a dedicated workspace.
This program is an initiative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands executed by Ingenious City with the support of BRALIMA, RAWBANK, DHL, Vlisco and Canal+ RDC.

To learn more about this 4th Cohort, subscribe on social networks of [Ingenious City ](https://web.facebook.com/Ingeniouscity/) as well as those of [Orange Corners RDC](https://web.facebook.com/OrangeCornersRDC).

At the end of a process of more than 2 months from December 28, 2021, the day of the launch of the call for applications, 22 incubates, including 9 women, were selected for the 4th cohort of the Orange Corners DRC program. launched by the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

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22 project leaders have been selected for the 4th Cohort of Orange Corners DRC 

Our latest news

Booster votre projet avec notre plateforme de financement participatif. Après validation de votre dossier, Ingenious City mettra en ligne votre projet pour toucher plus de monde et de potentiel investisseurs qui souhaiteront vous soutenir dès 5$.

Bongo Project

L’incubateur qui forme aux compétences entrepreneuriales, promeut l’esprit d’entreprise et connecte les acteurs de l’éco-
système en RDC.



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4 words, all having Ba as prefix, taken from Lingala, specify the 4 business sectors in which companies that we support must evaluate.

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Bakeli

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Baloni

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Basali

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Basungi

Our 4 “Ba’s”

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Our Partners

Explore key advantages and services that are provided by the Ingenious City.

We identify projects coming up with real solutions to society’s problems and we provide them with logistical support and some financial boost to get them in operation and in expansion.

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Projects promotion

We organize modules of training centered on entrepreneurship and adapted to the Congolese ecosystem. We offer pieces of orientation and advice for a better performance of innovative ideas.

Training and mentorship

1200 m2 of physical work space properly kitted out are at your disposal, favoring connection with people and cooperation, all of that at negligible cost.

Coworking space

Supporting and promoting entrepreneurship spirit