StartUP Friday is a brain-child of the OIIE (Office for ICT Innovation and Entrepreneurship)
StartUP Friday is a component of OIIE’s StartUP CAFÉ Program designed to bridge startup growth gap by enriching the development processes of new tech-driven businesses through “meet-up” with successful entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, technology buyers and enthusiasts in major tech clusters across the country (i.e. Lagos, Abuja, Kaduna, Enugu, Port-Harcourt, Ibadan, Ife etc.).
Objectives of OIIE
- To create a community, both physical and online, for start-ups to come to, connect, learn, interact, re-scale their business and get to meet people who can help them take their businesses to the next level.
- To catalyse, so that it can become organic, spreading across the city and across the country for effective contribution to the development process of the start-ups, irrespective of what hubs or community they belong to.
- Facilitate an interactive community for exchange of ideas, information and resources that can assist tech-driven entrepreneurs to grow, scale their businesses, generate employment and create wealth
- provide essential support to ensure that the startups thrive
Worth
- Meet-up for startups, mentors, investors and buyers.
- Come and #TellYourStory,
- Startups ShowUp to connect
- Opportunity to get seed funding
Date: Friday, March 18, 2016
Venue: Red Sparrow (not too far from MTN Office) Plot 2402, Shehu Shagari Way, Maitama, Abuja
Time: 4pm
Send entries to startup@ictinnovation.gov.ng
For More information, visit here or call +234(0)9097888885
