Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has been scheduled for Lagos State.
The event will hold on Friday 23
September 2016, at the Landmark
Events Centre Victoria Island, Lagos by 2.00pm.
StartUP Friday; designed and organized by the OIIE, is a community building event in Nigeria that is helping startups to connect to investors, mentors, celebrity entrepreneurs, buyers,
partners, consultants, developers and policy makers, thus helping the startups to grow and scale their businesses.
From 73 co-founders in attendance in February 2016 to 974 in July with 74 investors, OIIE has deepened the value in startup community
building through provision of seed funding, mentorship, grinding sessions, access to national and global platforms for more than 30
tech-driven start-ups in Nigeria.
participants include the Silicon Valley based Ycombinator which has been termed the world's most powerful startup accelerator that Fortune has described as "a
spawning ground for emerging tech giants".
Nigerian startups will have an opportunity to pitch for funding and accelerator program at
YCombinator during the Lagos edition of StartUP Friday.
This edition of StartUP Friday will feature amongst others:
*Seed Stage ShowUP-to-Pitch: innovative seed stage startups will pitch their products that address Agric, Healthcare, Financial Services, Robotics/Drones/IoT and Renewable Energy challenges.
*Growth Stage Pitch: At this session, startups at growth stage, seeking to scale will pitch their startup before the audience of investors.
*FutureHACK Session: where out-of-this world, innovative, futuristic but thought-provoking ideas and/or solutions will be presented for
further research and funding into becoming viable ventures.
*Fireside Chat on Sourcing and Investing in Deals; Networking Session amongst startups, investors and ecosystem players.
*FutureHACK: a program designed to develop tech-driven solution out of research into future lifestyle that
can be disrupted or amplified.
OIIE will be holding a FutureHACK competition for undergraduates of tertiary institutions at Afe
Babalola Auditorium in UNILAG on Thursday, September 22 from 10am to 4pm.
During this pitching competition, 6 to 10 top-
notch futuristic ideas pitched by the students will be selected to pitch at the StartUP Friday event on September 23.
The top three ideas with great potential impact will receive cash prizes from OIIE and be assigned mentors to help them refine their ideas for prototype development.
If you are an undergraduate with a great tech-driven idea that can solve socio-economic
problems or impact on lifestyle in the nearest future, FutureHACK competition is for you.
competition holds inside UNILAG on Thursday 22nd of September.
To register for the epic StartUP Friday event
and for an opportunity to pitch as a tech-driven startup, visit the registration page, as stated by
OIIE. startup.ictinnovation.gov.ng/#register
Source: Nigeria communications week.
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