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IDEAS & DREAMS FUEL INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
The Ideation Corner seeks a Uganda where every innovative and entrepreneurial youth has access to cheap capital to scale their business.
IDEATION CORNER BOOK
This book has been written, printed and published by the Ideation Corner Enterprises.
IDEATION CORNER AUDIO BOOK
The Ideation Corner Book Season One also has an audio version. The book is a compilation of compelling and impactful stories as shared by indigenous entrepreneurs.
IDEATION CORNER EPISODES
We produce and air weekly episodes featuring Ugandan Entrepreneurs and Business Thought Leaders. Our guests are mainly Youth and Women.
WHO WE ARE
We are a social impact fund that seeks a Uganda where innovative young entrepreneurs, especially women, have access to capital to scale their business.
Our work is guided by our mission to have social impact by advancing capital and incubator services to young entrepreneurs, especially young women, to scale their businesses, create jobs, increase incomes, and increase trade.
The Ideation Corner is one of the few organisations that established a social impact fund that aims to provide non-collateralised capital exclusively in Africa, exclusively for African youth, at near zero interest rates.
Our strategy sets an ambitious goal for the next decade, by 2030, our work will enable 1million youth in Uganda, especially young women, to secure capital, create jobs, and trade in a dignified fulfilling manner.
Using youth employment as a key measure of social economic progress, we aim to help young people to trade themselves out of poverty.
Our Mission
To advance and catalyze entrepreneurship amongst youth, especially women, in Uganda.
The Ideation Corner seeks a Uganda where every innovative and entrepreneurial youth has access to cheap capital to scale their business.
Everyone matters, no matter their social status, no matter where and to whom they were born to; everyone deserves an equal chance to succeed if they apply themselves.
We strongly believe that with access to cheap capital, innovative Ugandan youth, will be able to scale their businesses and have a strong chance to generational success and generational wealth.
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OUR VALUES
Integrity
We value integrity and do what is right. We value integrity and do what is right.
Respect
The best qualities out of anyone can only be got by treating each other with kindness and respect.
Impact
We are focused on results and direct all actions towards this one outcome.
Responsibility
We embrace the opportunities available and leverage them for greater outcomes.
Leadership
Humility is our greatest source of strength as we serve the common good.
Co-creation
We work together to achieve the best outcomes by leveraging each other’s greatest strengths and each other’s comparative advantage.
About Our Founder
Damali Ssali
Damali Ssali is a Ugandan Afro-optimist, an Author and the Founder of the Ideation Corner. She is the Ambassador of Women’s Entreprenuership Day Organisation for Uganda, Chief Programs and Projects Officer for Private Sector Foundation (PSFU) and an Advisory Board Member of the Africa Continental Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Her range of expertise includes financial services, trade policy, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
Damali is an Alumna of Harvard Business School where she specialised in Executive Leadership. She also holds a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from the Grenoble Graduate School of Business in France, with a specialisation in Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship Management.
She is an accountant by training, a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) and an affiliate of the Institute of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs).
Damali started off her career in financial services industry, in the City of London in the United Kingdom , working with one of the largest hedge funds in the world.
Later, she transitioned her career into trade development when she relocated back to Uganda in 2013 with dreams of setting up a venture capital fund to support innovative young Ugandans with seed funding.
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TESTIMONIALS
“Everything begins as an idea. Ideation Corner is growing and promoting ideas that have taken the next step to realization. The program is giving a voice to entrepreneurs, innovators, business leaders to share transformative and implemented ideas while motivating and encouraging a wealth of potential innovators and entrepreneurs to take the leap of faith and start on their idea realization. Kudos to the CIO (Chief Ideas Office) #DamaliSsali for setting this great initiative in motion.”
“I strongly believe that that entrepreneurial and innovative youth are best placed to provide a solution to the unemployment problem. Young developers, founders and start-up owners are doing a great job and deserve all the support they can get from entities like the Ideation Corner’’
“Ideation corner book is a compilation of real compelling and impactful stories as shared by indigenous entrepreneurs. The book features 21 African entrepreneurs and business leaders all operating in Uganda. Interestingly, eleven out of 21 entrepreneurs featured are women who share their grass to grace business stories of candid advice for startup and remind everyone that even amidst several challenges, we can all succeed in life for as long as we start. I encourage you all to read Ideation corner book, a book of idealism by Damali Ssali, a Chartered Accountant and Trade Development Expert.”
“Damali Ssali’s passion for innovation is second to none. She thrives on hearing ideas, on witnessing creative sparks, on being a part of initiatives that seek to unearth and bring forth that knowledge that has the potential to be turned into actions of such productivity that will, quite simply, make the world a better place. She has gone over and above her trade and finance expertise, and can now be counted as one of our most influential and motivational voices when it comes drawing attention to the remarkable individuals amongst us that are doing extraordinary things and making remarkable moves in all fields of human endeavour.”
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The Ideation Corner seeks a Uganda where every innovative and entrepreneurial
youth has access to cheap capital to scale their business.