Unreasonable at Sea, a mentor driven accelerator institute for tech entrepreneurs who desire to take their ventures into new international markets, are aboard a ship to 14 destinations Africa included.
It is searching for technology based companies working to solve the greatest social and environmental challenges of the century.
Unreasonable at Sea will have 10 firms from the Unreasonable Institute for over 100 days exploring the local economies of 14 countries where they will experiment in taking their technology to market and will bridge connections with top government officials, foundations, venture capitalists, and serial entrepreneurs.
Daniel Epstein, the founder of the Unreasonable Institute and George Kembel, the co-founder and Executive Director of Stanford’s d.school have teamed up with Semester at Sea, the only global shipboard education program of its type in the world, to launch this transnational entrepreneurship program set to sail in January 2013.
Set to bring a ship full of tech start-ups to the African continent in early 2013, Unreasonable at Sea believes technological entrepreneurship can solve Africa’s grandest challenges from education to malnutrition, while uniting the great continent with the rest of the world.
The Unreasonable at Sea roots from the success of the model of the Unreasonable Institute though the mentor trip unlike the traditional uniting entrepreneurs in an entrepreneurial Hub of Boulder, they have partnered with Semester at Sea to launch the accelerator on a ship as it travels more than 25,000 nautical miles around the globe to 14 international destinations.
The Startups will take two to three core members of their founding team for the trip to be mentored by 20 world-class serial entrepreneurs and innovators on the ship.
The African ports include Ghana, South Africa, Morocco, and Mauritius. At each country, the entrepreneurs will explore the local economies and network with politicians and venture capitalists.
African Unreasonable at Sea sponsors include App Africa, Co-Creation Hub Nigeria, Affrinova, and m-lab East Africa.
