Entrepreneurship

MUST strives to build a strong culture of entrepreneurship and to create new knowledge-based businesses in the Kenya. We run ongoing startup accelerators and offer various entrepreneurship teaching and learning opportunities to students, faculty, staff, as well as external visitors and industry partners.

Make your business idea a reality

Our objective is to plant the seeds of entrepreneurship ecosystem in the country—a network of startups, entrepreneurs, investors and others, all committed to helping great entrepreneurial ideas succeed.

We offer training and mentorship to entrepreneurs both on and off campus, from scientists and students looking to spin out their inventions into new companies, to Kenyan business owners interested in adopting an entrepreneurial approach to business growth.

Starting a business requires more than just good ideas. It takes careful planning and foresight, market knowledge, funding and ongoing support. MUST helps entrepreneurs at all stages of the process, from ideation to launch to funding and beyond.

We also help MUST inventors protect and commercialize their inventions through the TISC and TTO offices. MUST is particularly interested in supporting new ventures that are aligned with the university’s research activities and that will have local or regional impacts and create jobs.