Business Acceleration for Young Entrepreneurs in Africa.

Business Acceleration for Young Entrepreneurs in Africa.

We are an Entrepreneurship Support Organization operating Agribusiness Advisory and Support Centres in Nairobi, Kisumu and Eldoret..

BAYE Academy

A six-month training program that provides young people with the skills and knowledge needed to start and grow a social enterprise. The program covers topics such as Business Strategy development, Business planning and Analysis, Digital marketing, Financial Management, Financial Modeling and Planning, Pitching for success and leadership.

BAYE Accelerator

A six-month program that provides young social entrepreneurs with mentorship, networking opportunities, and access to funding to help them grow their social enterprises.

BAYE Fellowship

A one-year program that provides young people with the opportunity to work with established social enterprises and gain hands-on experience in the field.

BAYE Connect

A networking platform that connects young social entrepreneurs with mentors, investors, and other stakeholders in the social enterprise ecosystem these include Women and Youth-led Agribusiness Networks and Pan African Agri-tech Consortium.

Our Vision;

To be a competitive agribusiness accelerator, supporting growth of Startups Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) for wealth creation and empowered communities in Sub Saharan Africa.

Our Mission;

We offer professionally tailored digitalized Agribusiness Advisory and Development Support Services through blended experiential learning approach and Innovation Management.

Our Motto;

Serving towards promoting Agribusiness success through innovation and appropriate technology adoption.

Our Partners;

We work with entrepreneurs to scale startups and SMEs, corporate institutions, Non-Governmental Organizations, Common Interest Groups and women/youth-led Agribusinesses.

Our Team;

Our team include, Business Analysts, Business Coaches, Mentors, Subject Matter Specialists and Experts.

Our Impact

213

Incubation and Acceleration program
(Idea stage startups graduated)

97

Agribusiness Coaching and mentorship
(Startups with MVP that receive BDS services)

$357,000

financial Inclusion
(Innovations linked to finance and investment)

19

value chain development
(startups with MVP and New product lines developed)

17

Market system strengthening
(B2B and B2C Market linkages)

6

Market research
(Documented reports)

Our Partners

Our services

Financial inclusion services for Agri-based MSMEs

BAYE Africa gives leverage by offering advisory services to budding Agri-preneurs on boosting credit ranking, financial risk assessment and pitching for investor funding. We also facilitate Agri-preneurs’ access credit facilities, remediation of collapsed businesses and restructuring debts in collaboration with your financing institutions.



Entrepreneurship skills training and capacity building

As an accelerator we offer Agri-preneurs tailor - made capacity building and skills development through online courses in the field of business particularly; Business plan development, product and service development, financial planning and book keeping, financial management, marketing strategies, sales strategies, organizational structures, operational structures and linkages for legal and tax consultancies..

Agribusiness related workshops and seminars

Networking and building collaborations for business to business linkages is an integral part to spur business advancement and growth. Creating an atmosphere conducing for entrepreneurs’ interaction and learning is much needed for enterprise development. We at BAYE Africa recognize the need for opportunities for networking and collaboration. Given our wide and robust network of partners, we bring together entrepreneurs from different parts of the region to come together and share experiences, challenges and opportunities for investment in agriculture sector. We give budding entrepreneurs a chance to interact with seasoned entrepreneurs, mentors, potential investors and relevant government departments.

Boot camps, exhibition and exposé

All Agribusiness enterprises big and small requires support services to ensure that the entrepreneur has the right information that informs decision making given the dynamic business environment. The changes and shifts in the rule of the “game” require that the entrepreneurs are innovative enough to respond to the changes. BAYE Africa organizes exhibitions, exposé and boot camps bringing together entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds, with the diversity; our clients have an opportunity to learn and become creative, innovative, persuasive and better planners with boosted business acumen. The events also provide our clients with an opportunity to market their products and services; interact with consumers for feedback and identify opportunities for improving the enterprises competitively.

Agribusiness coaching and mentorship

GROW model and learning cycle are the approaches that inform the designing of the coaching and mentorship model that BAYE Africa adopts. Through our experience and learnings, we at are aware that most businesses do not usually survive beyond their second year of operations. We have a developed a simple Business Model Canvas that enable you review the general business value proposition and hand pick specific challenges that hinders smooth progression of the business towards realization of the desired revenue projection. Our company not only offers agribusiness solutions but also support through follow ups through coaching and mentorship on a routine basis to ensure that we collectively solve the puzzles the entrepreneur is struggling with. We dedicate qualified experts and coaches for a period of between 3 to 7 months to support translating the recommendations into implementable action points. Our model has been tested and proven to give the necessary boost for perfect takeoff of startups and reenergize performance of businesses towards growth.

Value chain development and Agricultural Market system strengthening

At BAYE- Africa we ensure that we take cognizance of close interaction between supply chain and value chain and we treat each with utmost in-depth analysis. We ensure that our clients improve the products and services in every step of the way in ensuring increase money value gained with every subsequent activity while they deliver the goods and services to the end user. The activities include: introduction to value chain development; value chain project design; and value chain interventions and its relationship to finance, strategic partnerships, environments, local economies. We prioritize risk identification and management, assess strengths & conduct constraints analysis in value chains.

Basic Research interventions

We support clients to identify opportunities through confidential baseline assessments for specific programs and markets. BAYE Africa supports our clients to design indicators that can be tracked through targets, objectives, and goals to measure long term results of businesses. We train our clients on development policies, agribusiness, value chain management, research and monitoring & evaluation.

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