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In this week’s edition:
Aurora Tech Award, Action for Women’s Health and other opportunities.
Moniepoint seeks commercial bank license, Lagos award grants to agritech startups, and other noteworthy Naija tech news.
Events, and more.
Opportunities you should not miss!
— Aurora Tech Award
Created and supported by inDrive, this is a worldwide initiative that seeks to support women founders of tech startups through guidance, actionable feedback, media representation and funding.
— Action for Women’s Health
This initiative seeks to fund organisations around the world that are improving women’s mental and physical health. Each awardee will receive flexible funding between $1 million and $5 million USD.
— Growth4Her Accelerator
An initiative designed for women that want to take their businesses to the next level. The selected participants will get expert mentoring, networking opportunities, and access to alternative financing options for your SMB.
— 2025 Growth Academy: AI for Cybersecurity
This initiative seeks to provide the promising startups using AI technology to grow and innovate responsibly in the Cybersecurity space with essential growth skills, internationalisation strategies, and Google tools and products to help them scale.
— Agribusiness Challenge Fund
This initiative seeks to provide SMEs with innovative and commercially viable agribusinesses the opportunity to receive support to upscale their businesses in a bid to create sustainable employment opportunities for young people, with particular focus on young women.
— Payaza Hackathon 3.0
Themed “AI-Powered Financial Inclusion for MSMEs“, this initiative seeks groundbreaking, unique solutions, ideas, and products that address challenges MSMEs face and empower MSMEs to thrive. $9,500 will be shared by the winners, with $5,000 going to the first-placed winner.
Snapshot of noteworthy events in Naija’s tech ecosystem last week:
— Lagos awards N100m grant to PricePally, 25 other agri-businesses at Agrinnovation 1.0. Read more
— MDaaS has expanded into Francophone Africa, launching its first clinic in Douala, Cameroon. Read more
— Moniepoint is planning to secure a commercial banking licence from Nigeria’s central bank. Read more
— Carbon is set to resume debit cards issuance to its customers. Read more
— MTN Nigeria has raised ₦75bn in oversubscribed commercial paper. Read more
— MTN Nigeria has appointed Yahaya Ibrahim as its new Chief Technical Officer (CTO), and Onyinye Ikenna-Emeka as Chief Marketing Officer. Read more
— Salesforce is planning to have physical presence in Nigeria. Read more
— Accrue is set to discontinue its stock investment offerings by the end of 2024. Read more
Events you should attend!
— Interactive Dialogue with HE Prof. Yemi Osinbajo
— AWIEF2024 Conference & Awards
— Art of Technology Lagos 6.0: AI & The Lagos Economy
What we are reading
— Software as a Service in Nigeria: Some Commercial Issues. Link
— The formalization of the African Market. Link
— The Stunning Decline of Globacom, Nigeria’s Third Biggest Telco. Link
Thank you for reading. See you again next week 👋
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