Tag: growth

• TACT Nigeria to Host SME Conference in Lagos

  The Tact Nigeria SME Sustainability & Growth Conference is in commemoration of the United Nations’ MSME day. The aim of the conference is to facilitate a much-needed conversation between government and SMEs, together with solution providers in development finance, banking, and consulting, on the challenges SMEs face in business, especially in raising capital. The event will provide an…

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  June 18, 2018

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  Africa, African youths, awards, AWP Network, Banking, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, consulting, development finance, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, government, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, program, progress, small business, SME Conference, SMEs, solution provider, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, TACT Nigeria, technology, The AWP Network, United Nations MSME day, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• Apply: UN SDG Challenge for Women Entrepreneurs

  The WE Empower UN SDG Challenge is a global business competition for women entrepreneurs who are advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Five finalists, one from each UN region, will  receive an all-expenses paid trip to New York during the UN Global Goals week (September 24-29, 2018) to participate in a series of tailored trainings and events.…

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  June 14, 2018

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  Africa, African Women Entrepreneurs, African Women Power Network, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business competition, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, global business competition, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, my voice matters, New York, Nigeria, program, progress, SDGs, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals, technology, The AWP Network, UN Global Goals Week, UN Region, UN SDG Challenge, vital voices, WE Empower, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• INKA Accessories To Establish Arts and Research Institute For Women in Ghana

  

  We have trained over 100 young people, mostly women, not only from Ghana but visiting tourists as well. Out of this group, some have gone on to establish their own businesses creating employment for themselves and others. Founder of INKA Accessories, Irene Naa KorKoi Armah has expressed her commitment to establish a creative Arts and Research…

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  June 12, 2018

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  Africa, African Women Power Network, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Fashion, Fashion design, girls, growth, idea, INKA Accessories, Innovation, Inspiration, Irene Naa KorKoi Armah, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, my voice matters, Naa KorKoi Armah, Nigeria, program, progress, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, Tony Elemelu Entrepreneurial Program, Tony Elumelu, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, youth unemployment, Youths

• Google Expands Its Launchpad Program for African Startups

  

  Google Launchpad Africa is an acceleration program that matches top African startups with the best of Google – its people, network, and advanced technologies – to help build great products. The program, which runs for three (3) months and will operate out of Lagos, will over the next three (3) years provide African startups with over…

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  June 11, 2018

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  accountability, Africa, Africa. Nigeria, African startups, African youths, Algeria, Anita Borg, awards, AWP Network, Botswana, business, business support, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, computer engineering, computer science, Creativity, Developers, development, education, Egypt, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Ethiopia, Europe, Firebase, Ghana, girls, Google, Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, Google Launchpad Africa, growth, ICT, idea, informatics, Innovation, Inspiration, Invention, investments, JC Common Award, Kenya, Lagos, Launch, Launchpad Build, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, Morocco, my voice matters, Nigeria, program, progress, Royal Academy of Engineering, Rwanda, scholarship, Senegal, small business, smallbiz, software development, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, Tanzania, techbiz, Techlaunchpad, technology, The AWP Network, Tunisia, Uganda, UK, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths, Zimbabwe

• Attend: 2018 Africa Early Stage Investor Summit

  

  This year, the Africa Early Stage Investor Summit is set to kick off Cape Town’s Global Entrepreneurship Week, encompassing a number of leading industry events and numerous networking opportunities. The Summit organizers Venture Capital for Africa (VC4A) and the African Business Angels Network (ABAN) have partnered with AfricaCom and AfricArena to offer a full-week VIP Investor Pass giving access…

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  June 7, 2018

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  access, Aerobotics, Africa, African Angel Investor Summit, African Women Power Network, African youths, Asoko Insight, awards, AWP Network, business, business acceleration, business accelerator, business opportunity, business support, Cape Town, challenge, change, Coin Afrique, collaboration, competition, development, digital, Edgepoint Digital, education, Electronic Settlement Limited, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Finland, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, investments, investor, Investors, Lagos, leadership, Lynk Jobs Ltd., marketing, Mary Olushoga, Mary Olusoga, MAX, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, Norway, ogaVenue, Ongair, Opportunity, Pesabazaar.com, Prepclass, Printivo, program, progress, Rasello Company, Rensource, Sendy Ltd., small business, Snapplify, Sokowatch, solutions, South Africa, startups, strategy, support, sustainability, Sweden, TalentBase, technology, The African Woman Power Network, The AWP Network, Timbuktu, Tizeti Network Ltd., women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, World Bank, XL Africa, XL Africa Venture Showcase, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• MasterCard Foundation Invests $500 million to Educate Next Generation of African Leaders

  

  The University of Pretoria (UP) in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation (MCF) is delighted to announce MasterCard Foundation Scholarship commencing in January 2019. This scholarship is available for high achieving African students interested in studying at the undergraduate or postgraduate levels. The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program is a 10-year, $500 million global initiative to educate and…

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  June 5, 2018

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  Africa, African Students, African youths, Algeria, Angola, awards, AWP Network, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, business, business support, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, challenge, change, collaboration, Comoros, competition, development, Djibouti, education, Egypt, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, girls, growth, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lagos, leadership, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, marketing, Mary Olushoga, MasterCard Foundation, MasterCard Foundation Scholarship, Mauritania, Mauritius, mobile technology, Morocco, Mozambique, my voice matters, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, program, progress, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, small business, solutions, Somalia, South Africa, strategy, Sudan, support, sustainability, Swaziland, Tanzania, technology, The AWP Network, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, University of Pretoria, Western Sahara, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, youth unemployment, Youths, Zambia and  Zimbabwe.

• African Startup Winning! Piggybank.ng Secures $1.1M Seed Funding

  

  Nigeria’s Piggybank.ng, an online and mobile app savings platform targeted at African Millennials, announced that it has closed on Seed Funding of $1.1M, from High Net Worth Individuals, led by Olumide Soyombo, Founder of LeadPath Nigeria, and with participation from International and Pan-African investors Village Capital and Ventures Platform. The company will deploy the VC…

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  May 31, 2018

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  Africa, African Women Power Network, African youths, Africans, awards, AWP Network, Blackbox, business, business support, CChub, challenge, change, collaboration, Covenant University, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, Google for Entrepreneurs, Google Launchpad Africa, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Joshua Chibueze, Lagos, leadership, LeadPath Nigeria, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, Odunayo Eweniyi, Olumide Soyombo, Piggybank, program, progress, small business, solutions, Somto Ifezue, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, Ventures Platform, Village Capital, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, youth unemployment, Youths

• Apply: €50,000 Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Award

  

  The Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards recognizes and supports brilliant young innovators tackling the planet’s biggest environmental and social challenges, and helping them to achieve scale for impact. From simple solutions with far-reaching impacts for child nutrition, to ground breaking technologies to cut greenhouse emissions, these changemakers are challenging business as usual and leading the way to…

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  May 30, 2018

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  accessibility, Africa, African youths, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ashoka, award, awards, AWP Network, Bilikiss Adebiyi, Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola, Bilikiss Kola-Abiola, business, Business Solutions, business support, Case Foundation, CChub, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, creators, designers, developing countries, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Environment, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Innovators, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, Pitch For Lagos competition, product design, program, progress, Renewable Energy, small business, solutions, South Africa, Steve Case, strategy, support, sustainability, Sustainia Award, technology, The AWP Network, Unilever, Unilever Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Awards, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, waste, WeCyclers, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• SDGs & Her Competition for Women Entrepreneurs

  SDGs&Her is an online competition for women entrepreneurs to showcase how they are supporting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through their business operations. The objectives of the initiative are to: recognize women implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including women business owners of microenterprises; increase knowledge about the SDGs and their potential impacts on women among…

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  May 30, 2018

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  Africa, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business operations, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, growth, idea, impact, Innovation, Innovative Ideas, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, program, progress, SDG&Her, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals, technology, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• Facebook To Provide $20,000 In Equity-Free Funding for African Startups

  

  The FbStart Accelerator at NG_HUB is a deep-tech focused accelerator program for visionary and innovative teams using advanced technologies to solve problems in our society and build solutions for the future. It is designed for startups and student teams building solutions that utilize any of these technologies; Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Internet of Things, Augmented…

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  May 30, 2018

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  Accelerator program, advanced technologies, Africa, African youths, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, CChub, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, data science, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Facebook, FbStart Accelerator, future, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, internet of things, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, my voice matters, NG_Hub, Nigeria, problems, program, progress, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, Virtual Reality, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths