200 Nigerian Startups Selected For Forbes Nigeria’s First Digital Startup Accelerator a creation of the partnership between Forbes and Global Startup Ecosystem. Starting June 2, 2020, the program has already begun 4 intensive weeks of digital training to help build and scale the companies for the future.

“The program culminates in a Demo Day, where a select few entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to virtually showcase their products, pitch their companies, and get global exposure for their brands. Vote for your favorite founders here, and make sure to tune in virtually to watch the demo day live. The Demo Day will be streamed live, with this post updated and emails sent to all that vote,’’ Forbes Chief Growth Officer, Tom Davies said in a statement. 

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Here Is What You Need To Know

• With Nigeria’s First Digital Startup Accelerator Program, Forbes and Global Startup Ecosystem are making a historic move to train and support Nigerian startups. 
•  Forbes expanded the number of companies by extra one hundred contrary to the initial 100 earlier contemplated. 
• The Forbes digital accelerator program is open to all small businesses, startups, and freelancers.
• The accepted companies will go ahead to have access to live virtual accelerator training for 4 weeks, access to the Forbes8 community and access to $100k in free credits and perks from AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and Sendgrid.

For general Inquiries contact the organisers of the program at: Hello@globalstartupecosystem.com.

Charles Rapulu Udoh

Charles Rapulu Udoh is a Lagos-based lawyer who has advised startups across Africa on issues such as startup funding (Venture Capital, Debt financing, private equity, angel investing etc), taxation, strategies, etc. He also has special focus on the protection of business or brands’ intellectual property rights ( such as trademark, patent or design) across Africa and other foreign jurisdictions.
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