Ventures platform hosts first Demo Day for investors

Ventures Platform (VP) hosted their very first Demo Day on Friday, January 27, 2017. The six companies who presented in front of investors, were incubated over a period of sixteen weeks as part of Ventures Platform’s early stage Accelerator Program. This accelerator program was fully residential at Ventures Platform’s Abuja campus, Ventures Park.

Tech start-ups in the program were chosen from hundreds of companies who applied to the accelerator program, so as to gain the interest and financial backing of top African investors and entrepreneurs who attended VP’s Demo Day to observe and engage with the start-up founders.

Following the welcome address from Kola Aina, founder of VP, the start-up founders kicked-off their presentations. The first batch of cohorts from the accelerator program include; Jalo, an on-demand logistics company that has set out to empower small businesses by offering affordable delivery services, it was founded in April 2016 by Nkiru Amadi-Emina. Payconnect the financial technology brain child of Victor Jibro, is an online lending platform that provides quick collateral-free micro loans to people within just twenty-four hours of applying.

Protech redefines education in Africa by using technology to determine learning patterns of students to match them with the perfect tutors.

The experienced team members behind ProTeach are Obasolape Abiola, Ibrahim Lawal and Abdulrazaq Iwashokun. Lizzie’s Creations is using technology to teach kids about Africa, its languages and rich culture through fun interactive mobile apps like Teseem – First Words. The duo behind the company are Elizabeth Kperrun and Dams Eremie.

Tomi Ayorinde and Dami Ayorinde head Mobile Forms Africa, a data collection platform that connects mobile agents to organizations who need data, enabling the easy collection and analysis of online and offline data. WeSabi allows people find skilled, reliable and affordable workers for domestic and commercial work. The team members are Sanni Murtala, Zainab Oyewo, John Ojebode, and Shawn.