Application Deadline: July 25th, 2020
Youth Innovation Challenge 2020
Call for Proposal
The Funding Space is an annual convening platform established to strengthen Nigeria’s entrepreneurship ecosystem with a specific focus on building knowledge and practice on gender lens investing and connecting entrepreneurs to investors. It is an access to finance, impact investing, training and networking platform.
This call for proposal is aimed at young entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas in the areas of:
- Fintech,
- Renewable Energy,
- Health and Agriculture; providing an opportunity to win seed grants for their businesses in the annual Youth Innovation Challenge which will hold at the Funding Space 2020.
READ ALSO: UNLEASH+ Pre-acceleration for the SDGs Program 2020
Who can apply?
- Applications are welcome from Nigerian based youth entrepreneurs
- Within age range 18 – 35, who have innovative business ideas that can bring about lasting social impact especially during crisis situations. The COVID-19 pandemic has destabilized economies and difficult periods like this call for innovative and effective solutions that can address continually evolving challenges.
How to Apply
Simply send your name, business name, business location, age and attach with a one page profile of your business & a 2-minute video of your idea to info@nigeriasme.ng
Kindly Click here to apply
(B.Agric, MBA)
08105636015, 08076359735
Serial Entrepreneur - International Business Planning Consultant - Speaker - Trainer - Author - Blogger - Network Marketing professional.
- 2018 SME Business Trainer and Coaching Advisor at GIZ for SME Loop.
- 2018 YALI RLC Online Cohort 9
- 2017 Fellow, Inspire Africa Train-the-Trainer Entrepreneurship programme sponsored by US Consulate Lagos and the Dickey Center, U.S.A.
- 2016 Fellow, Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme
- 2015 Top 50 Innovative Entrepreneurs, BET5 by Diamond Bank and EDC, PAU.
He is an alumnus of Enterprise Development Centre (EDC) of the Lagos Business School (LBS), Pan-Atlantic University (PAU). Through his training, mentoring, speaking and coaching programmes, he has empowered many young people over the years to start and grow their own business, build wealth, create multiple streams of income and achieve financial independence.
- He is a Certified Trainer in Design Thinking by the U.S Consulate, Lagos and the inspire Africa Entrepreneurship Institute.
- Katumu Adasi: How to survive in Nigeria without a job - February 11, 2021
- Top 5 business and services with the highest demands in Nigeria - January 4, 2021
- How to Become a Millionaire doing Rice Farming in Nigeria - January 4, 2021