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Sam Gichuru

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33 year old Sam Gichuru is the co-founder and the current Director Nailab Consulting, a consultancy company, Director at Ideas Africa Ltd and Nailab Incubator a Non-profile leading accelerator and incubator in Kenya among others.

Sam has hosted a technology show on 93.3 Hope FM for 2 years as part of giving back to society and sharing information, show is called Tech Tuesday, the show is about the growth of the internet, mobile phones, social media applications, from a very basic perspective, i.e opening a twitter account, Facebook etc., Sam plays an instrumental role in building local start ups at the Nailab Incubation, as a coach, mentor, strategic planner and incubation manager

“I love Africa and I love what technology can do in bridging the digital divide, giving someone in Rift Valley almost as good a chance as someone in the Silicon Valley”

Recent Milestones

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  Sam Gichuru — Co- Founder and Director at the Nairobi Incubation Lab, - First Start-up Incubator in Nairobi Kenya that is modelled after Y combinator , aims to help start-ups in Kenya with pre-seed funding in terms of resources, this incubator is funded via the 1% Club (2/10/11)
  Posted 5/16/11 at 7:18pm via co.ke
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  Sam Gichuru — Sam Gichuru was recently appointed head of IT in Delaware Kenya Trust, to help with the implementation of the Youth Enterprise Center that will mainly serve as a Incubation for Agri, retail and cottage based industries within East Africa Delka (Delawar (3/20/10)
  Posted 9/11/10 at 7:42am via delkatrust.org

Videos

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Delka - Head of IT (delkatrust.org) [edit]
Co-Founders (nailab.co.ke) [edit]