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10 Most Innovative Startup Companies in Nigeria 2020
Technology and Innovation offer great opportunities for Nigeria to grow her economy if huge and deliberate investments are made towards that.Startups and small ...
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ChiBlenders Green: A Startup Company Innovating with Food Wastage in Nigeria
Agriculture in Nigeria no doubt offers great hope of economic development for the country and the continent at large.At a time that Nigeria ...
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NadiFin Fintech Accelerator Program Announces 2019 Cohort
After 100+ applications from around the globe, 10 post-seed and pre-series B stage Fintech companies have been selected and are ready to scale ...
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Applications are now open for the NadiFin Fintech Acceleration program
Applications are now open for the NadiFin Fintech Acceleration program powered by MiddleGame Ventures and Farvest in partnership with the Luxembourg House of Financial Technology ...
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MEST Africa and Microsoft announces regional winners in annual Pan-African startup pitch competition
Five promising start-ups from across Africa have been chosen as regional winners in MEST Africa’s annual Pan-African pitch competition, moving one step closer ...
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WHO Innovation Challenge to formally announce 30 finalists at the Africa Health Forum in Cabo Verde
The top 30 health-oriented innovations selected from a field of more than 2 400 entries to the first-ever WHO Innovation Challenge will be ...
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Enter for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation over $100,000 Global Grand Challenge for Health Innovation and Development
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Grand Challenge for Health Innovation and Development seeks application from Emerging technology organisations to solve global health ...
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Are You a Remote-sensing, Artificial Intelligence (AI) or UAV Drone Company? Then Enter for the €175,000 Ag-Tech Developer Challenge
Are You a Remote-sensing, Artificial Intelligence (AI) or UAV Drone Company? Then Enter for the €175,000 Ag-Tech Developer Challenge by the Rainforest Alliance .This ...
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Regional finalists for the MEST Africa Challenge 2019 announced!
Regional finalists for the MEST Africa Challenge 2019 has been announced.50 Start-ups have been selected to take part in the annual MEST Africa ...
Blockchain
Flutterwave Partners with Visa to Launch GetBarter App For Home, Abroad Payments
Flutterwave, a global payments solutions business based in Africa has collaborated with Visa to launch GetBarter. This is an app that lets consumers ...
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Why Tech Hubs Are Developing In Africa
Going by the recent report by GSMA, 128 tech hubs have kick-started their operations across Africa since 2016. Comparing with the recent reports ...
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Andela Secures $100M Series D Investment
Andela, the company building distributed engineering teams with Africa’s top software developers, today announced the completion of a $100M Series D funding. The ...
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Nigerian Health Startup SonoCare gets up to $250,000 in Funding from Gray Matters Capital coLABS
Picture R-L shows: Ms Vaishali Nitturkar, Founder, The Gyan Tree presenting Award to Dr. Enokela Owoicho Moses for Best Innovation in Healthcare (SonoCare) ...
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WHO Africa Innovation Challenge Calls for New Solutions to Improve Health in Africa
The World Health Organization (WHO) in the African Region has launched the first WHO Africa Innovation Challenge calling for health innovations with the ...
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Innovation Accelerator Startupbootcamp Hosts FastTracks to Source Top Startup Talent Across the Globe – Applications Now Open!
Startupbootcamp (SBC), a global family of industry-focused accelerators, last year launched its first-ever Africa-based programme. Building on the success of its inaugural 2017 ...
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Nigerian Startup- Publiseer Becomes A Finalist At The 2018 Harvard New Venture Competition
Nigeria's digital publisher, Publiseer, has been announced as one of the 14 finalists of the 2018 Harvard Business School's New Venture Competition,taking place ...
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Tony Elumelu Foundation Accepting Applications For 4th Cycle Of $100M Entrepreneurship Development Programme
Tony Elumelu Foundation Accepting Applications For 4th Cycle Of $100M Entrepreneurship Development Programme 2018
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Enter for the Clean Energy Innovation Challenge
All On is launching the Clean Energy Innovation Challenge, in partnership with Co-Creation Hub to facilitate increased access to affordable, reliable and sustainable ...
Events
Meet the Startups Pitching at Seedstars Africa Regional Summit in Mozambique
Seedstars World (SSW), the global community and platform for entrepreneurs in technology in emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes, is hosting the third annual ...
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Digital Lab Africa Call for Projects is Open
Digital Lab Africa call for projects is open to any professional or individual in multimedia creation: artists, producers, start-up, SMEs, collectives, students or entrepreneurs from Sub-Saharan Africa. The applicants ...
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Application Opens for a $1M Initiative by DFS Lab to Support FinTech Entrepreneurs in Africa
DFS Lab, a fintech accelerator funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, recently announced they were accepting applications for their third fintech ...
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PayU Moves to connect Businesses to N200bn Online Payment Market in Nigeria
PayU has rolled out strategies to intensify efforts to connect businesses to Nigeria’s online payment market. Annual online payments in Nigeria is estimated ...
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Are You A Developer In Nigeria?Take Part in the Developers Survey by Vision Mobile and a Chance to Win Great Prizes
Vision Mobile in partnership with Intel,HTC,Microsoft,Qualcomm and a host of other companies,is conducting the 2017 Developer Economics Survey. The Developer Economics Q3 2017 ...
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Nigerian FinTech Startup REACH Makes Finalist of Digital Financial Services Lab (DFS Lab) Boot Camp in Sri Lanka
A Nigerian Fintech Startup REACH is one of the finalists of the Digital Financial Services Lab (DFS Lab) Boot Camp in Sri Lanka.REACH is an ...
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Sote Hub Kenya,recently Launched is already making Impact
Sote Hub in Kenya, a recently launched Technology Innovation hub located at Voi is already making impact following their ability to support startups ...
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Apply for Village Capital FinTech Africa 2016 Program and Investment
Village Capital, The MasterCard Foundation, and the DOEN Foundation are seeking to identify and support the next generation of fintech entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan ...
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Spark and Hotels.ng Invest $45k in Online Events Venue Booking Startup-OgaVenue
According to a press release made available to us,ogaVenue the Lagos-based online events venue booking platform, today announces that it has secured a ...
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About Ventures Platform-A New Incubation and Co-Working Space in Abuja Nigeria
Over the last few years Nigeria is beginning to see quite a number of business incubation and co working spaces springing up in ...
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Don’t Give up! Success Takes Time – Founder House of Usanga
African startup TV is proud to showcase House Of Usanga fashion collection, a contemporary African fashion label in Lagos. In a one on ...
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Cameroonian Innovator Arthur Zang Won the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation With His Heart-Monitoring Device, The Cardio-Pad.
Cameroonian innovator Arthur Zang has won the second Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation for his heart-monitoring device, the Cardio-Pad. His invention could change ...