SUPPORTING
HIGH-POTENTIAL INNOVATION
WITH JAPAN
Accelerating value exchange between
startups and ecosystem players.
PROJECT NINJA
Next INnovation with JApan (NINJA) is a startup support initiative by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) launched in January 2020 to promote entrepreneurship, innovation, and creation of new businesses in order to strengthen the startup ecosystem in emerging countries.
NINJA aims at supporting African startups showing high-growth potential with strategic partnerships, mentorship, and access to investment opportunities for enhanced business growth and continued social development in the continent.
VALUE PROPOSITION
A one-of-a-kind accelerator with a Japanese twist, designed to fast track the growth of impactful game changers, uniquely tailored to generate value for post-revenue, high-potential startups in South Africa.
Talored Support
Strengthen the foundation of your business and focus on priority
areas that will help you grow through intensive targeted
support and PoCs and pilots.
Broadened Horizons:
Gain broader perspective, insight, and best practices from a global community of mentors, experts and instructors.
Japan and beyond:
Gain access to not only international networks, including
venture capitalists, institutional and corporate investors,
and/or strategic partners, but even more so from
Japan like no other program.
KEY PROGRAM COMPONENTS:
• POC Designing Workshops
• Mentoring (by internal and external mentors)
• Instructor sessions (workshops, seminars)
• Local showcase and networking opportunity
• International showcase and networking opportunity
• Cohort-exclusive Japanese networking opportunity
• Japan Roadshow
• Peer-to-peer learning
• Pitch Training
• Demo day