Deadline: June 17, 2019
Applications are open for the Startup Nigeria Incubation Program 2019. Startup Nigeria is a 3-Month Incubation Program designed to support innovative idea-staged companies across Nigeria with funding, mentorship and trainings.
The program is specially designed to transform companies from mere ideas to actual products and services. Startup Nigeria 2019 will target and choose from startups in the North West, North Central and South East geopolitical zones. The Startup Nigeria Program gives Founders the needed leverage to excel with their specially designed curriculum to help idea and early-stage entrepreneurs find their footing and grow in Nigeria’s socio-economic terrain.
Benefits
- The Startup Nigeria Program provides training that helps the companies to validate and justify their core idea and hypothesis and which help them in further building their services and products.
- The startups are provided with professional mentorship that aids in the growth of business and helps the entrepreneurs to succeed faster.
- The startups also receive funding to aid their idea to move forward and to support the act of fundraising in the future.
Eligibility
- Open to startups in Nigeria (in the North West, North Central and South East geopolitical zones) that have a brilliant and innovative startup idea that they want to bring to fruition.
Program Timeline
- Call for Application: The call for application stage commences from May 27 and ends on June 17, 2019
- Virtual Training: The next stage is the Virtual Training which starts in the first week of July (July 8) and ends on July 26, 2019.
- Virtual Training: The Incubation period goes on simultaneously with the Virtual Training. The Incubation stage starts from July 2 and ends on July 26, 2019.
- Pitch Bootcamp: The stage of the Pitch Bootcamp is scheduled for July 29 and 30.
- Demo Day and Post Program Support: The month of July is also booked for Demo Day while the months of August and September are for Post Program Support.
Application
For more information, visit Startup Nigeria.
