From Waitlist to Launch: My Journey Through the Jim Leech Mastercard Foundation Fellowship When I first applied to the Jim Leech Mastercard Foundation Fellowship on Entrepreneurship at Queen’s University, I was hoping to scale IzzyShopper , the startup I was working on with two friends at the time. But when the results came out in January 2025, I found myself on the waitlist, one among more than a thousand applicants across Africa. It was a tough moment for me, but I decided
