Bellafricana to pitch at the Founders showcase 2021 by FI. This to be held on the 29th July.

Founders Institute (FI), the world’s largest pre-seed accelerator, is having a global session to highlight some of the newest, most outstanding businesses emerging out of FI Africa (Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa to be specific), along with the Directors of various cities who helped make this a reality.

This is the first time such a joint event is taking place. It aims to demonstrate how founders are addressing real-world problems in Africa. Furthermore, this event would have some of the recent graduates. They are to pitch to global investors, entrepreneurs and start-up ecosystem of leaders worldwide.

Here are the three Nigerian Start-ups that are taking part in the FI Africa Founders Showcase 2021.

BELLAFRICANA

I am exceptionally pleased to write that Bellafricana is a graduate of FI and been selected as one of the Founders to pitch in this first of its kind event.

Bellafricana is a tech-enabled community that provides a platform for creative entrepreneurs in the fashion, arts & craft, beauty, home & living, food produce & snacks industry, to gain visibility, increase sales, have the right business support and structure that gives them the capacity to grow their business.

Bellafricana is a tech-enabled community that provides an enabling platform for 10,000 creative entrepreneurs. This is to increase sales, provide visibility and capacity building for creative business owners.

We are on a mission to empower over 100,000 Creative entrepreneurs by year 2030 to start, grow and scale profitable and sustainable global creative businesses. Their vision is to help customers connect and discover creative and quality African-owned businesses; their aim is to become the best e-commerce company for African products.

AKOWE

Founded by Ayodeji Agboola (a tech entrepreneur in 2020), Akowe is a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that issues digital certificates in bulk. It allows you to digitize and issue academic or professional credentials, all in a few clicks.

In three steps, Akowe enables the issuance of digital certificates:

1. Certificate upload
2. Recipients list upload
3. Certificate sending

JOJOLO

Jojolo positions itself as a Mobile Sick Bay, aimed at reaching children in schools, homes, communities and public events with access to routine health screenings, vaccinations and emergency services. Secondly, they provide Virtual Consultations with Qualified Professionals. Aimed at redefining the way caregivers access healthcare for their children by connecting them with qualified healthcare professionals in real time to support the quality of care in school or at home.

The platform has a community forum for mothers to obtain answers to their questions from doctors, specialists, and essential services like dental treatments and home vaccinations.

Dr Yusuf Shittu, the CEO of the platform is a Global Health Innovator and Advocate and Medical Doctor. He is also the Co-founder and CEO of Neo Childcare.

Who should attend this event? 

• Anyone interested in funding start-ups
• People who are  interested in joining a start-up accelerator
• Those who have an idea for a start-up or a growing company
• Anybody interested in networking with entrepreneurs and advisors

To join in for an intriguing session and gaining insights on how Founders are building against all odds, kindly register here https://fi.co/e/256157 now.

Date: July 29, 2021

Time: 05:00pm – 07:30pm