{"id":46099,"date":"2022-06-30T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/25-entrepreneurs-selected-for-the-6th-edition-of-bk-urumuri-initiative\/"},"modified":"2022-06-30T12:02:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T12:02:20","slug":"25-entrepreneurs-selected-for-the-6th-edition-of-bk-urumuri-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/25-entrepreneurs-selected-for-the-6th-edition-of-bk-urumuri-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty five entrepreneurs selected for the 6th Edition of BK Urumuri Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"

Julienne Oyler, CEO of Inkomoko welcomed the selected entrepreneurs and congratulated these 25 businesses upon the beginning of the next step of their business development journey.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are excited for this continued partnership with the Bank of Kigali to support the growth of entrepreneurs from Rwanda. At Inkomoko, we pledge to continuously support entrepreneurs to discover their potential and grow their innovative business ideas that will provide our community with much needed digital solutions,\u201d said Oyler.<\/p>\n

The selected 25 businesses were founded by entrepreneurs from Rwanda\u2019s fast-growing sectors, namely manufacturing, agribusiness, fashion, and hospitality & tourism.<\/p>\n

“Congratulations to everyone who made the final list of this year\u2019s BK Urumuri Initiative. We are devoted to keep supporting SME businesses mostly youth-led enterprises. This partnership with Inkomoko presents an opportunity to learn and grow businesses with the aim of helping the young generation unlock their full potential,” Said Darius Mukunzi, Head of SME Banking at Bank of Kigali.<\/p>\n

The BK Urumuri Initiative has fostered the growth of 130 entrepreneurs in the past five editions. Previous Urumuri participants include Imagine We Rwanda, Uzi Collections, Weya Clothing, Slices & Cakes, House of Tayo, Moshions, and many more of Rwanda\u2019s best-known SME brands.<\/p>\n

{{About Inkomoko}}<\/p>\n

Inkomoko has served the needs of Rwandan businesses since 2012, providing business training, consulting, and access to affordable finance through its partner, AEC Rwanda Trustee Company Ltd. With more than 130 staff in 8 offices across Rwanda, Inkomoko\u2019s business accelerator has helped more than 19,000 MSMEs in Rwanda to run their operations more efficiently. On average, entrepreneurs in Inkomoko\u2019s accelerator increase their annual revenues by 80%.<\/p>\n

{{About Bank of Kigali}}<\/p>\n

Bank of Kigali is the largest commercial bank in Rwanda by total assets, Global Credit Ratings affirmed. Bank of Kigali\u2019s long-term and short-term national scale ratings of AA-(RW) and A1+(RW) respectively with a stable outlook. The Bank has won several back-to-back international and regional banking awards, including from EuroMoney, The Banker, Global Finance Magazine, and EMEA Finance. It has been named \u201cBest Bank in Rwanda.\u201d<\/p>\n

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{25 innovative businesses have been selected for this year\u2019s 6th Edition of BK Urumuri, after an intensive selection from over 100 applications. The winners will go through a six-month business acceleration program, including business training and consulting from Inkomoko Entrepreneur Development, and a chance to secure a zero percent interest loan from Bank of Kigali.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-46099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46099"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46099"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}