(3rd, R) Osita O. Nwoye (founder, Techcircle) hosts ‘OYA MAKE WE GROOVE 7’ in London 📸@Techcircle Here’s introducing #OyaMakeWeGroove, a tech party for African-focused founders, funders, and everyone in between. It’s first 2023 event (tagged ‘London Stopover’) happened in London on December 01, 2023, while the next iteration took place on December 09, 2023 in Lagos, Nigeria. ‘Oya Make We Groove 7’ – London #OyaMakeWeGroove was created by Osita Nwoye, founder of Techcircle – a company that works with African founders to build tech-enabled businesses/startups by providing all necessary support, leveraging relationships and knowledge it has gathered over a decade working…
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Sharon Obuobi (Founder, ALT/Finance) Sharon Obuobi is on a mission, with her new product ALT/ Finance, to help insurance companies build better solutions for collectible alternative assets (such as classic cars, fine art, jewelry, and so on). Alt/Finance delivers financial data feeds, integrations and software solutions for real-time views into market performance. Sharon Obuobi speaks at Tech Crunch Disrupt Says Sharon: “Exciting to be back in San Francisco with Alt/Finance – Alternative Data Solutions, after our launch at TechCrunch Disrupt in September. If you’re involved in insurance and want to optimise your business with powerful real-time asset valuations, let’s connect! 🚀” The US…
Sixteen innovators from eight African countries, including Botswana for the first time, have been shortlisted for the 10th Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.  Founded by the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Prize is Africa’s biggest prize dedicated to engineering innovation. And here are the proud members of the 2024 cohort: Africa Prize innovators join a network of 133 alumni across 21 African countries working to transform the continent with home-grown solutions for improving quality of life and economic development. In 2024, four finalists will compete for a share of £60,000, with the overall winner receiving £25,000 Details of the shortlisted 16…
Ifeoma Uddoh (M) – Founder & CEO, Shecluded Meet Shecluded, founded by social entrepreneur, Ifeoma Uddoh, as a Nigerian fintech credit company whose mission is to power financial freedom for African women by facilitating entrepreneurship and simplified access to financial services, through technology. Shecluded’s FINWOMEN project provides financial products, training, and support to 1000 women aged 18-35 across five states in Nigeria. “Our FinWomen project, supported by Challenge Fund for Youth Employment, will not only support 1000 Nigerian women to gain meaningful self-employment, but will also create up to 3,500 direct and indirect jobs for skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled Nigerian…
Lanre Oyedotun (Co-Founder & CEO, B54) B54, a Lagos-based business-lending fintech organisation, is connecting capital to startups, especially those in the high growth-stage desperately seeking to raise increasingly scarce venture capital. Co-Founded by Lanre Oyedotun and Babawole Akin-Aina in 2022, B54 is building an alternative and flexible source of funding for businesses in Africa that are powered by technology. This means that they specialise in aggregating idle cash from both wealthy Africans and financial institutions, and lending onwards to fast-growing businesses in West Africa that need working capital. Typically, B54 acts as a digital private bank that sources funds from…
Partnerships in medicine (L-R): Melanie Okuneye (Founder, Akoma Health) and Dr. Modupe Elebute-Odunsi (Founder, Marcelle Ruth Cancer Centre) Melanie Okuneye (Founder, Akoma Health – providers of accessible and affordable mental health services) and Dr. Modupe Elebute-Odunsi (Founder, Marcelle Ruth Cancer Centre) recently entered into a collaboration that will see patients of clinical cancer simultaneously enjoying the much-needed support of a mental wellbeing plan. Excited excited by this innovative collaboration that offers “wrap around care” of cancer treatment and an in-house mental wellness service, Dr. Elebute-Odunsi says: “It was great to finally meet and have discussions with Melanie Okuneye of Akoma Health, a truly impressive…
Dr. Omar Sakr (Founder & CEO , Nawah-Scientific) addressing 1000+ attendees of the 5th edition of Africa’s Business Heroes contest Father of five, entrepreneur at heart, and scientist in the laboratory, Dr. Omar Shoukry Sakr is the founder and CEO of Nawah-Scientific, an Egyptian cloud lab for on-demand scientific services, and Africa’s biggest online destination to outsource scientific experiments in the fields of natural and biomedical sciences. Recently, Nawah Scientific received accreditation from the United States Food and Drug Administration (US-FDA) for food analysis and safety through the Laboratory Accreditation for Analyses of Foods Program. Says Dr. Sakr: “Accreditation reduces costs…
Enyonam Manye 📸 Founder of Count on Crops Hub, Enyonam Manye, has just won the Agric Journalist of the year prize at the African Women in Agribusiness Awards, held at the Holiday Inn Hotel (Accra-Ghana), on November 18, 2023 Ms. Manye’s company produces a TV series tagged The Ghanaian Farmer, which is extremely popular for educating Ghanaians around the globe the vast opportunities the sector presents by engaging farmers and experts in field interviews. Aired on both Joy Prime TV and YouTube, The Ghanaian Farmer received special recognition for inspiring the younger generation, through engaging content, to see agriculture as…
Samirah Ade-Adebiyi ( Managing Director, AFEX Investment) Nigeria-based commodities platform, AFEX, has received a capital injection of $26.5 million from British International Investment (BII), which is the UK’s development finance institution (DFI) and impact investor. As a commercial platform, AFEX, through its three divisions of operation, helps its 450,000+ smallholder farmers in Nigeria, Kenya, and Uganda overcome challenges by expanding their access to inputs, financing, microinsurance, storage, training, and markets. Currently operating an expansive network of 200+ warehouses, the financing from BII will enable the construction of 20 advanced storage facilities in prominent locations across Nigeria, Kenya, and Uganda. This…
Ijeoma Agnes Oduonye (CEO, Cutix Plc) Did you know this? Listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, Cutix Plc (Cutix) is a manufacturing company based in Nnewi (Nigeria), producing and selling a range of electrical wires, cables and switchgear assemblies. The company produces bare copper conductors, bare stranded copper conductors, insulated copper conductors, PVC insulated copper cables, PVC insulated single/double sheathed-core aluminium cables and PVC insulated and sheathed flat twin/three-core copper cables. Cutix also produces aluminium twist cables and conductors to connect homes to low tension lines; used to connect power from high tension wire for street lighting; used in high…