Who is responsible for your application
This Is Digital Limited runs the Pitchathon and is the data controller for your application. Meta is our programme partner: it co-selects the shortlist, hosts the pitch day and the AI Summit in Istanbul, and receives applications from us as described below. Once Meta holds your data it processes it under its own privacy policy as well.
What we collect
The application form asks for:
- Contact details: your startup’s name, the primary contact’s name, email address and phone number, and your city.
- Your team: the names, roles and backgrounds of your core team members. By including them you confirm that they know their details are being submitted and agree to this notice.
- Your business: your problem statement, product, use of Meta technologies, stage, traction, market, impact, planned use of funds and pitch readiness.
- Documents: a pitch deck, up to five CVs, and up to three registration documents, which may be a certificate of incorporation, a business registration or a founder’s national ID. We ask for these only to confirm eligibility.
- Declarations: that your team is Kenya-based, builds with Meta’s AI technologies, is available for pitch day and consents to this notice.
The form also records the date and time of submission and your IP address, and uses Google reCAPTCHA to keep bots out. While you work through the form your answers are saved as a draft in our database so you can return to them; drafts that are never submitted are deleted after 30 days.