Startups Business Design and Innovation
Strengthen startup and ecosystem actors’ capabilities to design context-relevant solutions and progress from early ideas to pilot and market readiness.
IDI's Role & Contribution
IDI has been serving as the design and innovation lead—structuring and facilitating the capacity-building journey, equipping teams with practical tools and coaching, convening cross-disciplinary expertise, and strengthening business strategy, storytelling, and (where relevant) technical readiness.
Our Approach
We applied IDI’s holistic, human-centred and systems-led methodology—grounded in behavioural insights and service design—through “learning-by-doing” sprints that combined ecosystem and user research, problem framing, ideation, rapid prototyping, user testing, and pitch/business model refinement, reinforced with mentorship clinics and continuous feedback loops.
Outputs & Results
Measurable outcomes achieved through the programme's core activities.
STARTUPS ACCELERATED
Project Outcome & Impact
Startups and innovators emerged with clearer value propositions, stronger business models, and more investable outputs—ranging from refined prototypes and pitches (MPP, BeGreen), to entrepreneur growth and funding readiness (FFA), and structured Phase 2 technical assistance for AI teams resulting in demo-ready MVPs and investor materials.
Partners
As we work to scale health systems across Africa, we are proud to partner with leading national and global organizations.
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