Tag: Female-founder
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Startup Spotlight: Beeva AI
Beeva AI is a beauty technology startup founded in 2024 by Precious Adeyemi and Akweley Abena Okai. The company creates personalized skincare, especially for people with darker skin. It uses artificial intelligence and dermatological science to make professional skincare more accessible, inclusive, and personalised to individual skin needs. With their AI-powered platform, users can upload…
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Startup Spotlight: Salpha Energy
Salpha Energy is a Nigerian clean energy company founded in 2017 by Sandra Chukwudozie. The company designs, assembles, finances, and distributes solar home systems to underserved households and small businesses in both rural and urban parts of Nigeria. Their goal is to provide reliable, affordable energy access to people often left out of the normal…
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Woman in Tech for the Week: Vivian Mbene
Vivian Mbene is the current Chief Operating Officer at Breet, a fintech company under Inbreetic Technologies. She was appointed on January 15, 2025, and is responsible for coordinating operations, strategy, and product delivery across Nigeria and Ghana. She contributed significantly to the launch of Breet 3.0, an upgrade that has made cryptocurrency simpler, more accessible,…
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Startup Spotlight: MendPro
Mendpro is a social-commerce platform that was founded by Chioma Nnanna in 2024. It is an AI-powered toolkit designed for entrepreneurs and content creators who sell directly to their audiences. MendPro integrates content, sales, and operations into a single, seamless dashboard. It helps modern sellers plan smarter by scheduling posts across 12 platforms, including TikTok,…
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The Girls No One Is Watching: Naomi Williams on Building Nigeria’s Tech Future
Did you know that women make up just 22% of the workforce in the Tech industry? In fact, according to the Financial Institutions Training Centre, only 22% of the total number of engineering and technology university graduates in Nigeria are women. The numbers don’t lie: Nigeria’s tech industry still has a long way to go…
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Startup Spotlight: Zeelr
Zeelr is a remote job board focused on entry-level roles from companies hiring worldwide, including Nigeria and the EMEA region. Precious Okehi, a front-end developer passionate about building innovative digital solutions and using no-code tools to bring ideas to life quickly and efficiently, founded the company in 2024. Her mission for creating Zeelr is to…
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Startup Spotlight: TruQ
TruQ, a company co-founded by Foluso Ojo, helps businesses and fleet operators manage their companies more efficiently. The company understands that managing logistics processes makes it difficult and expensive for businesses to scale, and for them to be successful, they need to have good processes and capable vehicles. The company’s goal is to provide a…
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Woman in Tech for the Week: Peace Obinani
If there’s one thing Peace Obinani knows how to do, it’s making brands feel human and getting users to fall head-over-heels for them. Peace has a skill for storytelling and a deep understanding of consumer behaviour. With this, she has built a career helping businesses connect with their audiences in ways that truly matter. Currently,…
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Startup Spotlight: MyfoodAngels
MyFoodAngels is a food delivery company that helps people and businesses get fresh food quickly and easily. Founded by Olapeju Umah in 2018, the company was originally known as Mile12MarketWoman before rebranding to MyFoodAngels in 2019. MyFoodAngels operates as a B2B2C startup, delivering groceries to hotels, restaurants, and people who need fresh food but may…
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Startup Spotlight: Wellthify Medical
Wellthify Medical is a technology company focused on solving major health challenges, especially cardiovascular diseases. By using AI, smart wearable devices, and digital health tools, the company helps people manage their health better and respond quickly in emergencies. Wellthify Medical was founded by Favour Agwuna, an innovator in healthcare technology. She is also the founder…