HerVest - Opportunities for Women
Location: Nigeria, Lagos
Employees: 11-50
Investors 3
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Mentions in press and media 6
| Date | Title | Description |
| 08.05.2024 | Women In Tech Must Collaborate To Create Equal Opportunities – Ruby Igwe | Country Manager, ALX Nigeria, Ruby Igwe, has urged women in technology to put aside their differences and deepen common interests to collaborate for greater achievements. Igwe was a lead panelist on Friday, 26th April at an conference organ... |
| 06.09.2022 | 60 African startups receive $4 million equity-free funding from Google | Earlier today at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja, Google announced that 60 African startups have been selected for the second cohort of its Google for Startups Black Founders Fund. Each of the selected startups will receive support in t... |
| 29.10.2021 | HerVest’s digital savings app gives Nigeria’s female farmers a financial on-ramp | Nigerian entrepreneurs Solape Akinpelu and Yomi Ogunleye launched HerVest to provide an on-ramp for the continent’s most financially-excluded women: farmers. The financing gap for African women is $42 billion. Nearly 40% of this is comprise... |
| 21.09.2021 | Nigerian fintech HerVest wants to bring financial inclusion to more African women | After years of working in marketing for a number of financial services companies, Solape Akinpelu came to a conclusion: There was an “alarmingly low adoption” by women for financial services in her home country of Nigeria and all of Africa ... |
| 20.09.2021 | Announcing the Startup Battlefield companies pitching at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 | Today, TechCrunch is excited to announce the 20 startups pitching onstage in this year’s Startup Battlefield. Selected from the most competitive batch in TC history, selected founders from across the globe will pitch on the virtual stage at... |
| 26.04.2021 | Nigerian women need to adopt high-level financial services | Solape Akinpelu and I met for an early lunch at Eric Keyser on Sunday, April 11th. She had come straight from a video shoot powdered up, blushed, and dressed to impress. Solape first caught my attention the day after TechCabal’s IWD newslet... |