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ideiaLab — Maputo's Youth Entrepreneurship Incubator and Business-Support Network

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Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 17% 81/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Since 2010, Maputo's ideiaLab has trained 1,000+ entrepreneurs a year and built a 25,700-member community. Its 2019 impact report found 71% of trained businesses still active a year later and 63% had hired at least one new employee.

1,095
Entrepreneurs trained (2019)
71%
Businesses still active one year on
ideiaLab — Maputo's Youth Entrepreneurship Incubator and Business-Support Network

Details

Maturity
Established
Promoter
ideiaLab
Period
2010–present
Keywords
entrepreneurship, youth employment, business incubation, digital economy

Context

ideiaLab is a Maputo-based business incubator co-founded in 2010 by Sara Fakir and Tatiana Pereira, running cohort-based programmes such as Orange Corners Maputo and its own Ideate Bootcamp, partnered with Standard Bank, Mozambique's Ministry of Science and Technology and the Finnish Embassy.

Results

ideiaLab's 2019 Impact Report says it trained 1,095 entrepreneurs that year within a 25,722-member community, with 71% of supported businesses still active a year later and 63% of owners reporting they had hired at least one new employee.

Conclusions

These figures are self-reported by ideiaLab rather than independently audited, and no third-party longitudinal evaluation of survival or income effects was found.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k)
Time to results
Long (> 3 years)
Staffing & skills
incubator training and mentorship staff

Conditions for success

  • cohort-based training with mentorship and seed-stage support
  • corporate/government/embassy co-funding of specific programmes

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Philanthropic / foundation funding

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