Bayo Omoboriowo (Founder, Mad House by tikera) In a bid to support creative founders and startups in addressing Africa’s pressing challenges, Bayo Omoboriowo (personal photographer to former President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari) has conceived the Mad House by tikera – an incubator, accelerator and research institute dedicated to empowering creativity-led ventures and transforming their ideas into tangible products and industries. Mad House by tikera is currently running the Lens-Based Incubation Programme (LensBIP), with a chance to win up to USD$10,000 in seed funding. The Lens-Based Incubation Programme was established to develop the art of crafting creative ideas and converting them into…
Section1
“That’s a wrap! What an incredible year it’s been! 🌟”, says Theo-Lee Houston, recipient of the Google for Startups Black Founders Fund, which provides cash awards — without giving up equity in return — and hands-on support to help Black entrepreneurs build and grow their businesses. Theo is Founder at Slinger, and shared his thoughts and major takeaways on the recently-concluded accelerator programme: “We’re thrilled to be part of the prestigious Google for Startups Black Founders Fund program, an absolute honour to be part of a cohort radiating with black excellence! đź–¤ “A heartfelt thank you to the phenomenal Google teams for…
Chef Moyosore Odunfa (Founder, Ă€tijÄ™ experience) 📸 @moyo_rb Moyosore Odunfa (Chef Moyo) is head Chef at, and founder of The Ă€tijÄ™ Experience (Ă€tijÄ™ is a Yoruba word for ‘how we eat’). Based in Lagos-Nigeria, Ă€tijÄ™ serves multi-course Nigerian fine dining that offers not just an immersive culinary experience, but also proudly pushes the diversity and delectability of Nigerian cuisine to the forefront. 🎥a@tijeexperience Says Chef Moyo: “Our menus are fluid, based on seasonality so that we can offer you our interpretation of local cuisine at its best. We believe that Nigerian food tells deep, interwoven stories that teach us about who…
🎥 UBA Group/ RedMEdia Tony Elumelu (Chairman, United Bank for Africa – UBA) and his wife, Dr. Awele Elumelu certainly set the tone for a memorable Christmas during the UBA Denim & Diamond Rave season party – held on December 17, 2023, in Lagos-Nigeria.
John-Paul Iwuoha 📸Activator HQ John-Paul Iwuoha leads the Activator HQ market research and intelligence team that tracks Africa’s most interesting business opportunities Activator HQ has just released a guide tagged Top 100 Business Ideas, created for entrepreneurs, innovators, investors, policymakers, project developers, and anyone who is keen to position themselves in Africa’s promising and fast-changing markets in 2024. Says Activator HQ: “After analysing dozens of value propositions, market gaps, demand sources, trends, and underserved niches across Africa, we have identified 100 of the most lucrative business ideas and investment opportunities the continent has to offer in 2024. “In addition to…
Team TUNL South African parcel shipping platform, TUNL, has secured US$1 million in pre-seed funding from an array of investors, including Founders Factory Africa, Digital Africa Ventures, E4E Africa, and Jozi Angels. The platform, which promises to help e-commerce merchants save between 50% and 80% on international shipping costs, says the funding will fuel its expansion in its primary market, South Africa, and lay the groundwork for its launch in other key African and emerging markets. According to Craig Lowman (COO, TUNL): “Our pricing is completely transparent and democratised. We want to ensure that every business, large or small, can…
Solape Akinpelu (Founder, Hervest) 📸 SolapeAkinpelu Last weekend, Solape Akinpelu (Founder & CEO, Hervest) was, this past weekend, honoured with the Women in Tech Award, at the Art of Technology Lagos 5.0 (AOT 5.0) conference. Hervest is a a digital platform that provides financial inclusion for females by enabling easy access to savings, impact investments and credit financing for smallholder women farmers and women-owned/ led SMEs in Nigeria. Says Solape: “A heartfelt thank you to the AOT Team for this incredible recognition. I am beyond grateful to be acknowledged among such brilliant minds in the tech community. This one is…
Came out tops: Ololade Eniola Okedare (Founder & CEO, Emerge Story Company) Congratulations are in order for the NGN5,000,000 grand prize winner of Access Bank’s Womenpreneur Pitch-a-Ton, Ololade Eniola Okedare (Founder & CEO, Emerge Story Company). Emerge Story Company specialises in refining and polishing the budding storyteller’s narrative, ensuring it captivates audiences and propels their storytelling to new heights, therefore elevating their projects for both big and small screens. Other Womenpreneur Pitch-a-Ton prize winners received grants, ranging from five women entrepreneurs who got a sum of N500,000 to our four other womenpreneurs who won a grant of N4,000,000 to N1,000,000…
L-R): Fola Adeola (Founder & Chairman, FATE Foundation); Juliet Ehimuan (Founder, Beyond Limits), Nnamdi Ezeigbo and guest; Adenike Adeyemi (Executive Director, FATE Foundation) Engr. Nnamdi Ezeigbo (Founder & CEO, SLOT Systems Limited) – an indigenous Telecommunications, Information and Technology Company with over 70 retail stores nationwide and an online store – has won the prestigious FATE Foundation Model Entrepreneur award for the year 2023, for his outstanding vision and excellence. The award was presented by the Chairman of the Foundation and co-founder of GTBank, Mr. Fola Adeola. Incorporated in 1998, the SLOT brand has become a household name for good…
(3rd L): Babatunde Akin-Moses – Founder, Sycamore.NG Nigeria’s Co-creation Hub (CcHUB) in collaboration with i13 Ventures has selected Sycamore.NG, Kunda Kids, Doktorconnect, and BioCertica, amongst a handful of other African startups to take part in its Africa to Europe scaling program, holding in Dublin this entire week. Says Babatunde Akin-Moses (Founder, Sycamore.NG): “Once you get past the cold around this time of the year, you can’t help but notice the number of major tech companies like Meta, Amazon, and others, that have major operations here. Then lots of pubs too – not sure I’ve seen this many before.” The Africa to Europe scaling programme…