Welcome to
Ingenious City
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.
Incubation and acceleration lab
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.
Supporting and promoting entrepreneurship spirit
Explore key advantages and services that are provided by the Ingenious City.
Projects promotion
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.
Training and mentorship
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.
Coworking space
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.
Our 4 “Ba’s”
4 words, all having Ba as prefix, taken from Lingala, specify the 4 business sectors in which companies that we support must evaluate.
Bakeli
Digital/Tech
Baloni
Agri-food
Basali
Industry
Basungi
Services
Our experience summed up in numbers
Since it was launched in 2018, the Ingenious City’s journey has been about
+100
Incubated projects
+25
Partners and sponsors
+1200
m2 of available work space
+150
Mentors and experts
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Incubations
22 project leaders have been selected for the 4th Cohort of Orange Corners DRC
05 June 2022At 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.
Our Partners
We are proud to have worked with :