Tag: The AWP Network
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Venture Garden Group and GreenHouse Capital to Launch Female-Focused Tech Accelerator Program in Lagos

On Tuesday, August 14, 2018 – Venture Garden Group and GreenHouse Capital will launch GreenHouse Lab, a female-focused tech accelerator program and Africa’s first “Powered by Google” accelerator. The event is set to take place at Vibranium Valley in Ikeja. GreenHouse Lab was founded by GreenHouse Capital – a venture capital firm based in Lagos and is…
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Facebook and Google Help to Establish the African Master’s in Machine Intelligence
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) has announced the launch of a one-year intensive African Master’s in Machine Intelligence (AMMI) in partnership with Facebook and Google. The master’s program will begin this September at the AIMS-Rwanda campus in Kigali. The goal of the initiative is to train a generation of young scientists who will bring a fresh…
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Register Your AgriBusiness with AWIEF

This is a call for digital registration of women-owned agribusinesses in Eastern and Southern Africa. This registration will facilitate the development of a digital database for women-owned agribusinesses in Africa, the first agribusiness intelligence network targeting women agri-entrepreneurs. The aim is to create a network of women in agribusiness, increase information flow within women agribusiness…
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Attend: Nutrition Africa Investor Forum in Kenya

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) – an international organization founded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and driven by the mission of a world without malnutrition – is hosting the first-ever Nutrition Africa Investor Forum, to engage and encourage private sector investors to play a key role in improving nutrition across Africa. The event is hosted in partnership…
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Nigerian Startup ScholarX Joins Wise Accelerator and Injini Incubator

Founded by Bola Lawal and Maxwell Ogunfuyi, ScholarX was recently accepted into Injini’s five (5) months edtech incubator program. The program is all expense paid, plus a $50,000 investment during the program. In addition to this, ScholarX is one of five (5) initiatives selected for the 2018-19 WISE Accelerator. The WISE Accelerator will support the five selected edtech…
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Introducing Afrimart: B2B E-Commerce Platform
Afrimart is designed to create new business opportunities for African Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs), general merchants and service providers on the quest for growth and expansion by creating visibility and accessibility to African buyers and suppliers. Afrimart’s e-commerce platform for made in Africa product launched today, offering prospects of catapulting the otherwise less exploited intra-Africa…
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Apply: $100,000 Cartier Women’s Initiative Award

Since 2006, the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards has supported over 100 female entrepreneurs worldwide. Each year, 18 finalists are selected, 6 of whom will become Laureates. The Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards is looking for committed female entrepreneurs heading initiatives with the potential to grow significantly in the years to come. It is a unique opportunity…
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AWIEF Launches #VALUE4HER: Program For Strengthening Women’s Agribusiness Enterprises in Africa

#VALUE4HER is a 22-month project aimed at increasing VALUE for women agripreneurs through market access, improving knowledge, skills, networks and advocacy for addressing some of the key barriers for women’s empowerment in agriculture and agribusiness. Women are actors in numerous agricultural value chains, offering huge potential for their participation in markets, but few are involved in…
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£60,000 in Equity-free Funding for Engineers

The Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellowships supports creative, entrepreneurial engineers who have demonstrated an exceptional innovation in engineering which they want to develop further. These Fellowships support three (3) types of people: Researchers wishing to spin out a company from a university or research institute, Recent graduates wishing to start a company, International PhD students…
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The Need for Gender Diversity in Nigeria’s Music Industry, Emma Nyra Speaks to the AWP Network

Emma Nyra speaks to Mary Olushoga, Founder of the AWP Network in this interview, she discusses what inspired her to start her record label and her plans to help increase the number of female artists in Nigeria’s male-dominated music scene. Born Emma Chukwugoziam Obi, ‘Emma Nyra’ left the United States for Nigeria to launch her…