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| 10.02.2025 | Investing in Innovation Africa (i3) Announces Third Call for Applications to Empower Healthtech Startups | Investing in Innovation Africa (i3), a pan-African initiative dedicated to supporting health-tech startups has opened applications for its third cohort. The program aims to accelerate the growth and impact of African-led ventures that lever... |
| 28.12.2024 | The Fintech Surge: Nigeria's Digital Revolution | Nigeria is on fire. The fintech sector is booming, igniting a digital revolution across the nation. This surge is not just a trend; it’s a transformation. With a youthful population and a growing appetite for technology, Nigeria is becoming... |
| 27.12.2024 | Tech Revolution Africa Unveils MTN As Headline Sponsor | Tech Revolution Africa is making waves yet again! In a groundbreaking move, the team has announced MTN, Africa’s leading telecommunications giant, as the Headline Sponsor for its highly anticipated 2025 tech conference coming up on January ... |
| 13.11.2024 | The Rise of MVNOs: South Africa's Telecom Revolution | In the bustling landscape of South Africa's telecommunications, a quiet revolution is underway. Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) are emerging as the new growth engines, reshaping the industry. These nimble players ride on the infras... |
| 08.11.2024 | Introducing the dynamic judges of FUZE Talent Show 3.0: A new era of talent in Nigeria | For three consecutive years, Stanbic IBTC Pension Managers have continued to excite Nigerians with its extraordinary talent show, the FUZE Talent Show. This year, from the bustling halls of the Stanbic IBTC Towers, amidst an atmosphere of p... |
| 24.09.2024 | One year in, Bosun Tijani’s critics still struggle to see his vision | Bosun Tijani rates himself highly in his first year as minister of communication, innovation, and digital economy. Is his vision for Nigeria’s digital future resonating?
After being declared the winner of a contentious presidential election... |
| 08.06.2024 | ‘Let’s Build, Africa’ market-entry programme launched by CcHub for African startups | “Let’s Build, Africa” is a market-entry initiative that Nigeria’s Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) has launched to enable African startups to broaden their horizons and penetrate new markets on the continent.
In an effort to speed up the use of soci... |
| 03.05.2024 | SAIL Innovation Lab offers scholarship in game development to Lagos residents | SAIL Innovation Lab, a community innovation centre managed by Co-creation Hub is calling all aspiring game developers to apply for its three-month game development scholarship programme. This game development scholarship program is a fully-... |
| 02.04.2024 | Emerging Technologies in Edtech: The Role of Big Data in Advancing Education | Big data—two words that define the vast amount of information available online as the internet becomes widely available. Since 2020, educational organizations, policymakers, and other players in this space have had access to more data than ... |
| 01.02.2024 | Edo State Government launches Start-Up grant in collaboration with Co-creation Hub; with the support of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. | As part of its plans to strengthen its digital solutions ecosystem, the Edo State Government, with the support of Co-creation Hub and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has announced its plans to provide sub-grants to 50 startups.
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| 17.02.2023 | Co-Creation Hub's New Program Invests $15 Million in African Edtech Businesses | Trisha Kae Andrada, Tech Times 17 February 2023, 07:02 am
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Female space operations engineer inspects rover components
Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB), Africa's biggest innovation center, will launch a $1... |
| 17.02.2023 | Co-Creation Hub’s edtech accelerator puts $15M towards African startups | Africa’s largest innovation hub Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB) is launching a $15 million accelerator program, dubbed The Edtech Fellowship Program, to back and support 72 startups across Nigeria and Kenya over the next three years, TechCrunch has... |
| 27.04.2022 | CcHUB, Google selected 9 Startups for the Fintech Incubation Programme in Rwanda | In collaboration with Google, the technology innovation centre, Co-creation Hub (CcHUB), the Ministry of ICT and Innovation Rwanda, and Mojaloop Foundation have announced the nine startups selected for the Fintech Incubation Programme it la... |
| 01.03.2022 | Ex-Techpoint and TechCabal Editor, Victor Ekwealor’s life as a creative, growth expert, and tech entrepreneur | Share this article:
If the expression, “he has worn many hats,” were to take human form, the result would probably be Victor Ekwealor. He has tried his hands at so many things that I wonder if he set out to discover as much as possible or h... |
| 27.12.2021 | Inside Jack Dorsey’s Btrust members’ plan to facilitate financial freedom | Bitcoin technology is powered by software developers or contributors that work on a pro bono basis. So, the Bitcoin infrastructure would be threatened if these highly skilled developers refuse to work or are not skilled enough to maintain t... |
| 07.12.2021 | Betting $165 million on Africa’s B2B eCommerce in 2021 | Share this article:
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The good journalists at Techpoint might be sounding like broken records now. Africa is not ready for eCommerce. Africans are poor. There are too many “evil forces”, as it were, for eCommerce to function effecti... |
| 24.06.2021 | Google earmarks $6 million to support African tech startups and women-led businesses | Google, this week, announced the launch of two new initiatives to support African-founded startups and women-led businesses in underserved communities on the continent.
The programs include a $3 million Black Founders Fund for African start... |
| 21.06.2021 | Google plans to support African founders and entrepreneurs with new $6m funding options | Share this article:
Google has announced opening up three new programmes targeted at supporting African entrepreneurs — the 6th cohort of Google for Startups Accelerator (GFSA) Africa, $3 million Black Founders Fund (BFF) Africa, and Google... |
| 31.03.2021 | 54Gene, COVID-19 and the prospects of Human Biotechnology in Nigeria | By Oluwabukunmi Familoye and Ikpeme Neto
Nigeria doesn’t contribute much to the global biotech industry which is estimated to be worth $833.34 billion with a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of over 7.02% by 2027, but this is beginning to... |
| 19.03.2021 | YC-backed Termii raises $1.4m seed round to expand to North Africa | Share this article:
Nigerian-founded Communication Platform as a Service (CPaaS) startup, Termii has raised $1.4m seed round from African early-stage VC firm, Future Africa and Africa-focused Japanese VC, Kepple Africa Ventures. Also partic... |
| 11.03.2021 | Savannah Fund launches $25m Africa tech seed fund led by the IFC, WeFi | Multiple funding opportunities are opening up for African startups from various sources, the latest being from Savannah Fund.
The venture capital firm has raised $25 million to invest in early-stage startups across sub-Saharan Africa, with ... |
| 02.03.2021 | Nigerian founders-turned-investors are now running syndicate funds | The Future Africa Fund kicked off in 2015 when Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Nadayar Enegesi, co-founders of U.S.-based and African-focused talent company Andela, wrote checks to African startups as angel investors. This continued even as Aboyeji j... |
| 22.02.2021 | Uber’s UK woes, WhatsApp ultimatum revisited, CcHUB’s syndicate fund | Share this article:
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Múyìwá Mátùlúkò here. Today we are discussing
Uber’s unfavourable UK ruling and what it could mean for the wider gig economy.
WhatsApp going on with privacy policy ultimatum.
Syndicate by CcHUB launch and what ... |
| 08.12.2020 | New programme launched to accelerate impact-driven tech companies in Africa | The leading technology innovation center in Africa, Co-creation Hub (CcHUB) has launched the CcHUB Syndicate.
The Syndicate is an investment vehicle that aims to encourage investment firms with High Net Worth Individuals (HNI) to co-invest... |
| 08.12.2020 | New programme launched to accelerate impact-driven tech companies in Africa | The leading technology innovation center in Africa, Co-creation Hub (CcHUB) has launched the CcHUB Syndicate.
The Syndicate is an investment vehicle that aims to encourage investment firms with High Net Worth Individuals (HNI) to co-invest ... |
| 04.12.2020 | Something interesting is happening in Nigerian Music-Tech | I was one of the winners for the first Nigerian Music-Tech Innovation Challenge and if the pitch event had been a physical one, I imagine I would have been dressed differently. More respectably. But there I was last Wednesday with a t-shirt... |
| 05.10.2020 | CcHUB and GSMA Announce Launch of Pan-African IoT Community | CEO of CcHUB and iHub, ’Bosun Tijani made the announcement alongside GSMA Head of Sub-Saharan Africa, Akinwale Goodluck on 29th September 2020 at the just concluded GSMA Thrive Africa event.
Dubbed ‘Building Wakanda’, the platform will faci... |
| 10.09.2020 | Nigerian blockchain startup, Chekkit, pilots its drug verification tech in Afghanistan | Share this article:
Last week, Chekkit Technologies, a Nigerian startup that offers product verification, anti-counterfeiting solutions, announced that it secured a partnership to roll out its tech in Afghanistan.
Founded in 2018 by Dare Od... |
| 02.06.2020 | With great power comes great responsibility - how to harness technologies in the fight against COVID-19 | With great power comes great responsibility - how to harness technologies in the fight against COVID-19
02-06-2020
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an unprecedented public health crisis, presenting new and profound chal... |
| 28.04.2020 | Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [28/04/2020] | Grand Challenges Canada has included five African innovations among its 20 innovations which it will fund and support for 2020 that focus on the Covid-19 pandemic.
This, as Nigerian startup Chekkit, which usually develops anti-counterfeitin... |
| 28.04.2020 | Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [28/04/2020] | Grand Challenges Canada has included five African innovations among its 20 innovations which it will fund and support for 2020 that focus on the Covid-19 pandemic.
This, as Nigerian startup Chekkit, which usually develops anti-counterfeiti... |
| 20.04.2020 | Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [20/04/2020] | SA startup Healthcent is making its healthtech platform, Signapps free for all users in public-sector hospitals over the duration of the Covid-19 period.
This, while startup Beat Drone, which uses drones to spray farm land, has been contrac... |
| 20.04.2020 | Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [20/04/2020] | SA startup Healthcent is making its healthtech platform, Signapps free for all users in public-sector hospitals over the duration of the Covid-19 period.
This, while startup Beat Drone, which uses drones to spray farm land, has been contra... |
| 31.03.2020 | Africa Roundup: Africa’s tech ecosystem responds to COVID-19 | In March, the virus gripping the world — COVID-19 — started to spread in Africa. In short order, actors across the continent’s tech ecosystem began to step up to stem the spread.
Early in March, Africa’s COVID-19 cases by country were in th... |
| 30.03.2020 | Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [30/03/2020] | In just a few days SA small businesses and startups can expect more details from financiers Business Partners on how to access funding from the Rupert family’s R1-billion in debt relief.
This, as the Department of Small Business Development... |
| 30.03.2020 | Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [30/03/2020] | In just a few days SA small businesses and startups can expect more details from financiers Business Partners on how to access funding from the Rupert family’s R1-billion in debt relief.
This, as the Department of Small Business Developmen... |
| 18.03.2020 | CcHub and Ventures Platform to fund tech solutions targeting COVID-19 outbreak in Africa | African research labs, innovation hubs and venture capital firms are putting money on the table to support solutions targeted at better handling the COVID-19 pandemic.
In Senegal, a collaboration between Institut Pasteur de Dakar, a Dakar-b... |
| 17.03.2020 | CcHub funds tech to curb COVID-19 on concerns of an Africa outbreak | Africa’s largest innovation incubator, CcHub, will offer funding and engineering support to tech projects aimed at curbing COVID-19 and its social and economic impact.
The Lagos and Nairobi based organization posted an open application on i... |
| 16.03.2020 | Nigeria’s CcHub opens call for innovative projects to tackle coronavirus pandemic | Lagos based Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) is calling for applications from entrepreneurs who have an innovative solution to tackle the coronavirus.
The Lagos-based tech hub made the announcement yesterday on a web page on its website.
Those ent... |
| 16.03.2020 | The Big 5 Daily: 16th March, 2020 | Hello Monday,
Welcome to the Big 5 Daily!
Enjoy!
Big news! CcHUB is calling on startups with projects that will help contain the COVID-19 pandemic. The innovation lab through its Design Lab will provide funding, research and support that wi... |
| 16.03.2020 | Nigeria’s CcHub opens call for innovative projects to tackle coronavirus pandemic | Lagos based Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) is calling for applications from entrepreneurs who have an innovative solution to tackle the coronavirus.
The Lagos-based tech hub made the announcement yesterday on a web page on its website.
Those entre... |
| 04.03.2020 | Meet the top 25 for Next Einstein Forum’s Challenge of Invention to Innovation | The Next Einstein Forum (NEF) has announced the 25 finalists for its Challenge of Invention to Innovation (Ci2i) competition which will be held next Tuesday and Wednesday (10 and 11 March) in the NEF Innovation Salon in Nairobi.
In a statem... |
| 04.03.2020 | Meet the top 25 for Next Einstein Forum’s Challenge of Invention to Innovation | The Next Einstein Forum (NEF) has announced the 25 finalists for its Challenge of Invention to Innovation (Ci2i) competition which will be held next Tuesday and Wednesday (10 and 11 March) in the NEF Innovation Salon in Nairobi.
In a state... |
| 25.02.2020 | Airbus BizLab, GIZ open applications for #Africa4Future programme | Airbus BizLab and GIZ, the German agency for international co-operation, has opened a call for African startups to apply to enter the third edition of #Africa4Future.
The initiative is a joint accelerator programme between Airbus’ global a... |
| 25.02.2020 | Airbus BizLab, GIZ open applications for #Africa4Future programme | Airbus BizLab and GIZ, the German agency for international co-operation, has opened a call for African startups to apply to enter the third edition of #Africa4Future.
The initiative is a joint accelerator programme between Airbus’ global ae... |
| 21.02.2020 | Applications open for Africa4Future program | Share this:
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| 21.02.2020 | Is Africa the next frontier for emerging technologies? | For every bad rep the African continent gets in terms of its politics, infrastructure shortcomings and poor socioeconomic systems, its technology industry gets a double dose of the opposite.
From a gamut of technology startups innovating fo... |
| 15.01.2020 | How Femi Longe, co-founder of Co-creation Hub, wants to tackle unemployment in Africa with his new startup, Qiesto | Share this article:
On the first day of January 2020, Femi Longe published a Medium post announcing that he had stepped down as director of innovation at the Co-creation Hub (CcHub), a role he held since 2010.
As co-founder of CcHub, he, al... |
| 02.01.2020 | Here are 20 accelerators, incubators for African startups to apply for in 2020 | Is your startup looking for technical assistance to develop its minimum viable product (MVP), funding or new clients or partnerships with corporate clients?
If you want to benefit from expert mentorship and advice, why not consider joining ... |
| 02.01.2020 | Here are 20 accelerators, incubators for African startups to apply for in 2020 | Is your startup looking for technical assistance to develop its minimum viable product (MVP), funding or new clients or partnerships with corporate clients?
If you want to benefit from expert mentorship and advice, why not consider joining... |
| 30.12.2019 | 2019 Africa Roundup: Jumia IPOs, China goes digital, Nigeria becomes fintech capital | 2019 brought more global attention to Africa’s tech scene than perhaps any previous year.
A high-profile IPO, visits by both Jacks (Ma and Dorsey) and big Chinese startup investment energized that.
The last 12 months served as a grande fina... |
| 16.12.2019 | African science entrepreneurs can tap total of $125k through Next Einstein Forum initiative | Are you an entrepreneurial scientist in the fields of technology, engineering, mathematics or the social sciences?
The Next Einstein Forum (NEF) and Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) have partnered to hold a NEF investor Meetup which will offer Afric... |
| 16.12.2019 | African science entrepreneurs can tap total of $125k through Next Einstein Forum initiative | Are you an entrepreneurial scientist in the fields of technology, engineering, mathematics or the social sciences?
The Next Einstein Forum (NEF) and Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) have partnered to hold a NEF investor Meetup which will offer Afri... |
| 06.11.2019 | My Life In Tech: Oluseun Onigbinde wants you to care about your government | My Life In Tech is putting human faces to some of the innovative startups, investments and policy formations driving the technology sector across Africa.
In the space of nine days beginning September 7, cofounder of civic technology startup... |
| 30.10.2019 | Bosun Tijani talks strategy as CEO of Africa’s new largest tech hub | With CcHub‘s acquisition of iHub in September, Nigerian Bosun Tijani is at the helm of (arguably) the largest tech network in Africa.
He is now CEO of both organizations, including their robust membership rosters, startup incubation program... |
| 17.10.2019 | Why CcHUB’s edtech centre could be pivotal for education in Nigeria | Co-creation Hub’s network of technology centres is shaping into an innovation galaxy. At their design lab in Kigali, product designers and engineers are applying emerging technologies across multiple disciplines, from healthcare to governan... |
| 04.10.2019 | CcHub’s Set to raise $60 Million Growth Capital fund to Invest across Africa | Technology-oriented centre, Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) is set to raise $60 million for its Growth Capital Fund. The fund will be used to support tech startups across Africa.
CcHub’s Growth Capital fund raising $60m to invest across Africa http... |
| 03.10.2019 | Africa Roundup: CcHub’s iHub acquisition, Andela’s $50M run rate and layoffs, Transsion’s IPO | Two of Africa’s powerhouse tech incubators joined forces in September. Nigerian innovation center and seed-fund CcHub acquired Nairobi based iHub.
The purchase amount was undisclosed, but CcHub will finance the deal out of its real estate p... |
| 01.10.2019 | Meet the Ghanaian and Nigerian teams in FbStart Accelerator’s 2019 cohort | Facebook and Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) have announced the teams selected for the second cohort of the FbStart Accelerator.
The accelerator, which launched its first cohort last September at NG_Hub in Lagos, is aimed at supporting students an... |
| 01.10.2019 | Meet the Ghanaian and Nigerian teams in FbStart Accelerator’s 2019 cohort | Facebook and Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) have announced the teams selected for the second cohort of the FbStart Accelerator.
The accelerator, which launched its first cohort last September at NG_Hub in Lagos, is aimed at supporting students and... |
| 30.09.2019 | Nigerian tech community campaigns against police brutality | Segun Awosanya, Nigerian Human rights activist and convener, EndSARS campaign.
Nigeria’s technology leaders have launched #StopRobbingUs, a campaign to put an end to the common practice where Nigerian police stop young people with laptops a... |
| 27.09.2019 | Nigeria-based Innovation Centre CcHub acquires Kenya-based iHub | Cocreation Hub (CcHub), a Nigeria-based innovation centre have acquired iHub an innovation centre based in Nairobi in an undisclosed amount. The two top powerhouse tech incubators in Africa will join forces to drive impact across Africa.
Th... |
| 27.09.2019 | Nigerian innovation centre CcHub acquires Kenya’s iHub | Lagos-based innovation centre Co-creation Hub (CcHub) has acquired Nairobi-based tech innovation hub iHub for an undisclosed fee.
CcHub explained in a statement yesterday that the deal will see iHub’s team become part of its wider central s... |
| 27.09.2019 | Nigerian innovation centre CcHub acquires Kenya’s iHub | Lagos-based innovation centre Co-creation Hub (CcHub) has acquired Nairobi-based tech innovation hub iHub for an undisclosed fee.
CcHub explained in a statement yesterday that the deal will see iHub’s team become part of its wider central ... |
| 26.09.2019 | Nigeria’s CcHub acquires Kenya’s iHub to create mega Africa incubator | Two of Africa’s powerhouse tech incubators will join forces. Nigerian innovation center and seed-fund CcHub has acquired Nairobi based iHub, CcHub CEO Bosun Tijani confirmed to TechCrunch.
The purchase amount is undisclosed, but Tijani said... |
| 26.09.2019 | CcHUB Nigeria Has Acquired iHub In Kenya | Share this:
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| 26.09.2019 | Nigeria’s Co-Creation Hub buys Kenya’s iHub in landmark acquisition | Nigeria’s leading technology innovation center, Co-Creation Hub, has acquired Kenya’s iHub for an undisclosed fee. As part of the acquisition, CcHUB will now make key hires in innovation consulting, people management, programme management a... |
| 18.09.2019 | Andela lays off 250 engineers and staff with plans to retrench up to 170 more | US tech firm Andela has laid off 250 junior engineers and staff from its Nigeria and Uganda hubs — and is looking up laying off a further up to 170 junior engineers and staff in Kenya, the tech firm said in a statement yesterday.
Andela — w... |
| 18.09.2019 | Andela lays off 250 engineers and staff with plans to retrench up to 170 more | US tech firm Andela has laid off 250 junior engineers and staff from its Nigeria and Uganda hubs — and is looking up laying off a further up to 170 junior engineers and staff in Kenya, the tech firm said in a statement yesterday.
Andela — ... |
| 17.09.2019 | Africa-focused Andela cuts 400 staff as it confirms $50M in revenue | Africa-focused tech talent accelerator Andela will cut 400 junior engineers across Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria, CEO Jeremy Johnson told TechCrunch.
The layoffs come as the startup released first-time earnings figures indicating it will surpas... |
| 03.09.2019 | Sierra Leonean data analytics startup Track Your Build wins Seedstars Freetown | Sierra Leonean data analytics startup Track Your Build has been named the winner of last week’s Seedstars Freetown pitching event.
Track Your Build was founded in 2014 by Samuel and Edmond Nonie and uses drones, satellites, cloud computing... |
| 03.09.2019 | Sierra Leonean data analytics startup Track Your Build wins Seedstars Freetown | Sierra Leonean data analytics startup Track Your Build has been named the winner of last week’s Seedstars Freetown pitching event.
Track Your Build was founded in 2014 by Samuel and Edmond Nonie and uses drones, satellites, cloud computing ... |
| 21.08.2019 | African incubator MEST has a new MD and 11 fresh startup investments | Pan-African incubator MEST announced investments in 11 startups from its 2019 cohort that will each receive $100,000 in financing.
The $1.1 million backing for a graduating class is the largest to date for the Accra-based organization — whi... |
| 30.07.2019 | CcHub names 10 startups that will visit Asia in PitchDrive II | Lagos-based innovation centre Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) has announced the names of the 10 African startups that will participate in a tech tour of five Asian cities next month, through its PitchDrive II initiative.
The tour, run in partnersh... |
| 30.07.2019 | CcHub names 10 startups that will visit Asia in PitchDrive II | Lagos-based innovation centre Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) has announced the names of the 10 African startups that will participate in a tech tour of five Asian cities next month, through its PitchDrive II initiative.
The tour, run in partnershi... |
| 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... |
| 02.07.2019 | Applications for Season 2 of FbStart Accelerator to close this Saturday | The application deadline for Season 2 of the FbStart Accelerator has been extended to this Saturday (7 July). Entries were initially set to close on Sunday (30 June).
The six month accelerator programme aims to support teams in Nigeria and... |
| 02.07.2019 | Applications for Season 2 of FbStart Accelerator to close this Saturday | The application deadline for Season 2 of the FbStart Accelerator has been extended to this Saturday (7 July). Entries were initially set to close on Sunday (30 June).
The six month accelerator programme aims to support teams in Nigeria and ... |
| 28.06.2019 | Nigerian healthtech DrugStoc secures investment from Growth Capital | Nigerian social innovation fund Growth Capital has invested an undisclosed amount in Lagos-based Nigerian drug procurement platform DrugStoc. Growth Capital is a Nigerian based Co-creation Hub’s (CcHub) innovation fund.
DrugStoc provides ho... |
| 28.06.2019 | Nigerian healthtech DrugStoc secures investment from Growth Capital | Nigerian social innovation fund Growth Capital has invested an undisclosed amount in Lagos-based Nigerian drug procurement platform DrugStoc. Growth Capital is a Nigerian based Co-creation Hub’s (CcHub) innovation fund.
DrugStoc provides h... |
| 02.06.2019 | FbStart Accelerator graduates raise over $400k after hitting traction | The inaugural cohort of Lagos-based FbStart Accelerator raised over $400 000 in grants and investments during the programme after their ideas received some initial traction, Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) incubation unit director Damilola Teidi, h... |
| 31.05.2019 | Diving deep into Africa’s blossoming tech scene | Jumia may be the first startup you’ve heard of from Africa. But the e-commerce venture that recently listed on the NYSE is definitely not the first or last word in African tech.
The continent has an expansive digital innovation scene, the c... |
| 23.05.2019 | FbStart Accelerator graduates raise over $400k after hitting traction | The inaugural cohort of Lagos-based FbStart Accelerator raised over $400 000 in grants and investments during the programme, after their ideas received some initial traction.
So, says Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) incubation unit director Damilol... |
| 23.05.2019 | FbStart Accelerator graduates raise over $400k after hitting traction | The inaugural cohort of Lagos-based FbStart Accelerator raised over $400 000 in grants and investments during the programme, after their ideas received some initial traction.
So, says Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) incubation unit director Damilo... |
| 22.05.2019 | NG_Hub celebrates first birthday by sharing impact figures [Infographic] | Today marks one year since Facebook opened its Lagos-based NG_Hub to the public.
NG_HUb, which Facebook opened in partnership with social innovation centre CoCreation Hub (CcHub), is a space for collaboration which the firm created as a par... |
| 22.05.2019 | NG_Hub celebrates first birthday by sharing impact figures [Infographic] | Today marks one year since Facebook opened its Lagos-based NG_Hub to the public.
NG_HUb, which Facebook opened in partnership with social innovation centre CoCreation Hub (CcHub), is a space for collaboration which the firm created as a pa... |
| 22.05.2019 | Facebook Celebrates One Year of NG_Hub | Share this:
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| 13.05.2019 | Applications are Ongoing for 2019 FbStart Accelerator Program Season 2 | FbStart Accelerator is the brainchild of Facebook and CcHub. It is a 6-month research and mentorship opportunity for innovative teams to apply advanced technologies to produce creative solutions. This cohort is opened for startups from Ghan... |
| 30.04.2019 | Facebook’s FbStart Accelerator inaugural cohort may have earned their graduation, but they still have their work cut out for them | Share this article:
After partnering with the Co-creation Hub to launch NG_HUB in Lagos, Nigeria in May last year, Facebook followed three months later with the launch of its Nigeria-focused accelerator, FbStart Accelerator.
Like most accel... |
| 25.04.2019 | CcHub, Google to select 10 African deep tech startups for PitchDrive II initiative | Lagos-based innovation centre Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) and Google for Startups have partnered to take 10 top African hardware and deep tech startups on a 14-day tour of five Asian cities through August’s PitchDrive II initiative.
The initia... |
| 25.04.2019 | CcHub, Google to select 10 African deep tech startups for PitchDrive II initiative | Lagos-based innovation centre Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) and Google for Startups have partnered to take 10 top African hardware and deep tech startups on a 14-day tour of five Asian cities through August’s PitchDrive II initiative.
The initiat... |
| 16.04.2019 | What African Nations Can Learn from Rwanda’s Growth as an Innovation Hub | Rwanda is quickly becoming an innovator’s paradise. Technology companies and manufacturers from within and outside the continent are moving to the country to either set-up innovation hubs or manufacturing plants.
Last year Andela, which ori... |
| 01.03.2019 | CcHub planning on launching more Design Labs across the continent says founder | The Lagos-based Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) is planning to launch further design labs on the continent, CcHub CEO and founder Bosun Tijani has revealed to Ventureburn.
Tijani’s comments, which he made in an email yesterday (28 February), follow... |
| 01.03.2019 | CcHub planning on launching more Design Labs across the continent says founder | The Lagos-based Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) is planning to launch further design labs on the continent, CcHub CEO and founder Bosun Tijani has revealed to Ventureburn.
Tijani’s comments, which he made in an email yesterday (28 February), follo... |
| 31.01.2019 | Here are 8 accelerators, incubators African startups can apply for in 2019 | Whether your tech startup is looking to secure funding or new clients, or whether you need technical assistance developing a minimum viable product or are just looking for expert mentorship and advice — you can never go wrong by joining an ... |
| 31.01.2019 | Here are 8 accelerators, incubators African startups can apply for in 2019 | Whether your tech startup is looking to secure funding or new clients, or whether you need technical assistance developing a minimum viable product or are just looking for expert mentorship and advice — you can never go wrong by joining an ... |
| 02.01.2019 | Co-Creation Hub set to open design lab in Rwanda | Co-Creation Hub has announced it will be commissioning its second unit in Africa which will be focused on research and development.
According to Bosun Tijani, one of the founders of Co-Creation Hub, the subsidiary which will be located in K... |
| 19.11.2018 | Ogun State government and MainOne are bringing 250km of fibre-optic Internet infrastructure to the state | Share this article:
During the just concluded South-Western Nigeria edition of the Techpoint Innovation Tour, the Techpoint team stumbled on stretches of excavations along Oke-Ilewo road in Abeokuta, Ogun State Nigeria. They looked like mar... |
| 12.11.2018 | Lara.ng Is Getting People Around Lagos In A Way That Google Maps Can’t | The transportation problems in Lagos persist partly because the government hasn’t found a common ground between political will and the useful application of data. To provide useful public transportation services, it needs to be able to appl... |
