Starta and Ingressive are partnering together to host The High Growth Africa Summit, a 2-day conference on how to build, scale and fund high growth businesses in Africa.
This summit is a culmination of the 2016 tech tour, which features leading players in the global tech ecosystem.
- Monique Woodward, 500 Startups
- Omobola Johnson, Partner of TLcom Capital
- Federico Pirzio-Biroli, Playfair Capital
- Doug Scott, Potential VC
- James Lyle, Tiger Management
- Yvonne Wassenaar, New Relic
- Tayo Oviosu, Paga
- Mark Essien, Hotels.ng
- Iyin Aboyeji, Flutterwave
- Toke Ibru, The Guardian Nigeria
And many more exciting speakers & guests…see the full list here.
The Summit will be widely attended by over 250 pan-African entrepreneurs and 100 global investors. The High Growth Africa Summit which closes off a week-long rush of conferences, summits and private salons, will take place in Victoria Island, Lagos. A key event is the 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.
Speaking on the potential of the African market as a promising space for foreign investment, Maya Horgan-Famodu, Founder at Ingressive says, “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.”
To sign up to attend, please visit the High Growth Africa Summit website.
