Winners Of 2019 Go Global Africa Programme [Nigeria]

Recently updated on October 24th, 2022 at 03:27 pm

Winners have emerged at the 2019 Go Global Africa Programme hosted by the British Deputy High Commission in Lagos, Nigeria.

The winning Nigerian entrepreneurs are:

RemindMe, an app by Innovation corner that would use USSD and text to remind new mothers of vaccination dates;
Piggybank, an automates savings and investment solution;
Social Lender; a money lending solution that uses social media platforms;
Thriveagric, a program that lowers the entry barrier for people willing to invest in agriculture by connecting farmers to crowdsourced finance;
Helium Health; a hospital management software;
Helpmum; an app that provides healthcare information to combat maternal and infant mortality;
eTrash2Cash; an online platform that will help low income & marginalised women earn & save cash benefits for gathering trash for recycling.

As part of efforts to enhancing UK-Nigeria diplomatic relationship, the 2019 Go Global Africa Programme, is a UK international programme developed as part of the International Tech Hub Network, which aims at building up both early stage startup individuals and companies with the tools needed to expand and improve their business skills and capability, build links with UK’s thriving tech sector and work with UK expertise to take their business to the next level.

15 start-ups were selected from 340 entries who presented their pitches to a combined Nigerian and British panel of tech experts.

According to British Deputy High Commissioner, Laure Beaufils:

“I am committed to bringing together the best of the UK’s tech sector with Nigeria’s tech entrepreneurs. This is a win-win for both our economies. The Go Global programme is the first of many support programmes, particularly in the areas of tech and financial inclusion that we will be working with Nigeria on, following the commitments made last August when the Prime Minister visited Nigeria.”

Laure said, adding that, due to the volume and quality of applications received in Nigeria the number of Nigeria, two additional slots had been awarded, bringing the number of winners up to 7 from 5.

However, the scheme, which aims to boost both countries’ economies and help the UK achieve its aim of being the best place in the world to start and grow a digital business, will give the winning entries the opportunity to travel to the UK and be sponsored to join a delegation of ambitious African start-ups to the UK for a 2-week immersive programme in March 2019.