| Date | Title | Description |
| 05.08.2021 | Olumide Soyombo: The journey from startup founder to investment mogul | “What turns me off is when someone just tells me they have this idea and they haven’t done anything but want me to invest. I always say you have to take a risk on yourself before anybody can take a risk on you.”
Up until October 2020 when N... |
| 26.07.2021 | One of Nigeria’s high profile angel investors is launching a fund for African startups | Olumide Soyombo is one of the well-known active angel investors in Nigeria tech startups and Africa at large. Since he began angel investing in 2014, Soyombo has invested in 33 startups, including Stripe-owned Paystack, PiggyVest, and TeamA... |
| 26.07.2021 | Early Paystack investor, Olumide Soyombo launches Pan-African VC firm, Voltron Capital | Share this article:
Olumide Soyombo has today announced the launch of Pan-African VC firm, Voltron Capital, co-founded with Abe Choi, a US-based entrepreneur and investor. It is a pre-seed & seed firm for elite tech founders tackling cr... |
| 19.07.2019 | Everything you need to know about West African startup landscape [2019 Update] | Update: Are you a venture capitalist or an angel investor looking to invest in a company? Are you an entrepreneur looking for capital or other opportunities? Are you an aspiring startup owner looking for assistance? Well, you have come to t... |
| 19.07.2019 | Everything you need to know about West African startup landscape [2019 Update] | Update: Are you a venture capitalist or an angel investor looking to invest in a company? Are you an entrepreneur looking for capital or other opportunities? Are you an aspiring startup owner looking for assistance? Well, you have come to t... |
| 14.06.2019 | Six Nigerian fintech startups to keep an eye on | Fintech is one of the most attractive tech sectors for investment in Africa — and Nigeria, together with South Africa and Kenya, is leading the way on the continent when it comes to the number of hot fintech investments.
A report (opens as ... |
| 14.06.2019 | Six Nigerian fintech startups to keep an eye on | Fintech is one of the most attractive tech sectors for investment in Africa — and Nigeria, together with South Africa and Kenya, is leading the way on the continent when it comes to the number of hot fintech investments.
A report (opens as... |
| 30.12.2018 | African Fintech is still the preferred sector for global VCs to invest in | Share this:
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| 08.06.2018 | Here’s what you need to know about Nigeria’s tech startup ecosystem | Are you a venture capitalist or an angel investor looking to invest in a company? Are you an entrepreneur looking for capital or other opportunities? Are you an aspiring startup owner looking for assistance? Well, you have come to the right... |
| 08.06.2018 | Here’s what you need to know about Nigeria’s tech startup ecosystem | Are you a venture capitalist or an angel investor looking to invest in a company? Are you an entrepreneur looking for capital or other opportunities? Are you an aspiring startup owner looking for assistance? Well, you have come to the right... |
| 08.06.2018 | Brains, Focus And Grit: A Profile of Odunayo Eweniyi, Co-Founder, Piggybank.ng | I had originally wanted to do an Odunayo Eweniyi profile back in August 2017. I’d recently started using Piggybank.ng and coincidentally, at a house party, I’d met two people who knew her back in Covenant University. They were both recent P... |
| 01.06.2018 | ‘$1.1m funding will help Piggybank.ng to capitalise on opportunities’ | Automated savings platform Piggybank.ng‘s latest round of $1.1-million seed funding will allow the Nigerian startup to “expand and capitalise on the many opportunities that the market presents”, says co-founder Joshua Chibueze.
Chibueze (pi... |
| 01.06.2018 | ‘$1.1m funding will help Piggybank.ng to capitalise on opportunities’ | Automated savings platform Piggybank.ng‘s latest round of $1.1-million seed funding will allow the Nigerian startup to “expand and capitalise on the many opportunities that the market presents”, says co-founder Joshua Chibueze.
Chibueze (p... |
| 06.03.2017 | The definitive list of tech hubs in Nigeria | Share this article:
For decades, the Silicon Valley model has progressively transformed the way innovation and entrepreneurship is viewed globally.
This has inspired technology-minded individuals to form clusters, across various geographica... |
| 30.09.2016 | The Nigerian Startup Ecosystem Reference Book | Share this article:
Over the past eight years, the Nigerian technology sector has recorded some level of growth in a silent manner. The recent visit by Mark Zuckerberg to Yaba, Lagos revealed some five to six years of work done by passionat... |
| 19.05.2015 | Applications For The Second Cohort of The Leadpath Nigeria’s Accelerator Program Have Begun | Share this article:
LeadPath Nigeria is a technology startup accelerator which launched in March 2014 and then threw open its doors for technology startups to apply for enrolment in the first cohort of the accelerator program. The accelerat... |
| 19.05.2015 | LeadPath is Accepting Applications for its Second Cohort | Lagos-based accelerator, LeadPath Nigeria has begun accepting applications for the second batch of startups into its 3-month accelerator programme.
The company announced the call for entries yesterday on its Twitter handle.
#Entrepreneurs c... |
| 14.04.2015 | PushCV Becomes The Most Visited Job Platform In Africa | Share this article:
Employment in Nigeria has become one of the most talked about topics on social media, and indeed everywhere. A lot of companies have been working hard to combat this problem as well as remain in healthy competition. One ... |
| 05.01.2015 | 5 business accelerators you can take your big ideas to | Share this article:
From experience, working with people of like ambition helps with innovation, so incubation, acceleration and co-working hubs or centres are definitely here to stay in Nigeria and Africa.
There are over 120 incubation cen... |
| 11.03.2014 | Applications To Leadpath Nigeria’s First Startup Accelerator Cohort Have Begun | Leadpath Nigeria officially declared their purpose last Friday, to create a support platform for early stage technology startups in Nigeria. Now, the door is open. Startups can apply for access to become one of the first “Pathfinders” in th... |
| 10.03.2014 | Nigeria: LeadPath Accelerator launches in Lagos | Share this:
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