Incubation, courses and workshops
Three connected offerings under the TunaShare hub — designed so a curious 22-year-old can walk in for a workshop and walk out, two years later, running a real business.
Incubation
6–9 month cohorts pairing young founders with mentors, peer support and small grants. Women applicants are prioritised.
Technical courses
Practical, employment-focused courses in digital tools, basic accounting, mobile money and light coding.
Workshops & masterclasses
Short, intense sessions on pricing, sales, customer interviews, branding and pitching — open to the wider Bujumbura founder community.
Six ways the Lab supports founders
Startup mentoring
One-to-one and small-group mentoring with operators who have actually built and scaled in Burundi.
Early-stage support
From idea to first paying customer: lean validation, simple business models, local market testing.
Community innovation
We back ideas rooted in real community problems — mobility, waste, food, services, environment.
Women founders priority
Around 70% of the entrepreneurs we have supported are women. That is a deliberate choice, not an accident.
Practical business development
Pricing, accounting basics, legal first steps, customer interviews — the unglamorous work that decides survival.
Local problem solving
We do not import startup theatre. We help founders build for Bujumbura, Gitega and Ngozi as they actually are.
Across TunaShare programs
These figures cover TunaShare's incubation, women leadership and community work since January 2023.
From idea to scaling startup
Apply
Tell us about your idea, your team and the problem you want to solve.
Discover
Short workshops to sharpen the idea, validate demand and shape a first business model.
Build
Mentoring sprints, peer cohort, hands-on support from launch to first revenue.
Scale
Connections to partners, follow-on funding routes, and the wider TunaShare network.
How our programs connect
- Youth Innovation Lab
- Incubation
- Enterprise & Finance Program
- Investment Readiness
- External Finance & Partnerships