Next month, November, Nigeria’s city of Lagos will play host to the High Growth Africa Summit. The summit is a 2-day conference on how to build, scale and fund high growth businesses in Africa, is scheduled to hold on November 17-18, 2016. Hosted by Starta and Ingressive.
According to the organizers (Ingressive and Starta), the summit is expected to be attended by about 250 pan-African entrepreneurs and 100 global investors. Holding at Victoria Island, the summit will close off a week-long rush of conferences, summits and private salons.
It will feature an elevator pitch competition where budding Nigerian entrepreneurs will compete for the chance to win one of four free tickets to private meetings with key investors at the summit.
Maya Horgan-Famodu, Founder at Ingressive said: “iROKO brought 30x ROI to their initial investors. Goldman Sachs and Mark Zuckerberg have made bullish Nigerian investments in the last year and we just hosted Michael Seibel and Qasar Younis of YC in September. The world is ready for African tech. The question now is which investors will win the market first. It’s a standoff, and Ingressive is here to bring those ready to invest and advise into the ecosystem.”
“We fundamentally believe that billion dollar businesses will be built in Africa by Africans,” said Dotun Olowoporoku, Managing Partner at Starta. “We know that technology will enable Africans to build these faster and in more efficient ways than generations before us. Our goal is to help entrepreneurs who are serious and committed to building such businesses. The High Growth Africa Summit is one of the ways with which we seek to achieve that.”
