Kauffman Foundation claims that every year there appear about 1500,000 startups, and a little less than half of them turn into real business. Many of these startups belong to bright minds of Nigeria – who else if not Nigerians would come up with all these ideas??
Everybody knows such names as Konga, Jobberman, IROKOtv, Jumia, etc. But what`s been happening in the startup market of Nigeria in 2015??
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The proof of what unique thoughts may come to a head of Nigerian is near – Go to the next page!
DoviLearn
DoviLearn is a first full-fledged e-learning portal emerging in Nigerian market. DoviLearn is a digital learning portal that offers courses in skill acquisitions for those requiring a career upgrade. Their mission is simple – to make learning digital. They also believe that “learning can be facilitated when simplified, accessible and affordable”.
DoviLearn offers professional online courses like:
- Digital Marketing Specialist Training;
- Human Resources Training;
- Finance for Non-Financial Manager;
- Android Lollipop Development;
- Social Media Marketing and so on.
Dovichi Services, the parent company behind DoviLearn, says it has collaborated with some of the World’s best trainers and instructors across the globe to deliver their training contents on the portal.
“Our story has been like that of the wise man in the island of deserts. We found ourselves having many business concepts at hand, and a little time to make a decision on which to kick-off with.
Some of these concepts were driven by personal interests, while some were driven by true business interest, but we never allowed our personal interest to negatively influence the overall goal of our business, which is to deliver solutions, and that is what our company stands for”
Vincent Okeke, founder of DoviLearn, a full-fledged e-learning portal
Startup Launches first e-Learning Portal in Nigeria – DoviLearn
DoviLearn is the first e-Learning Portal in Nigeria
Andela
Andela, a Lagos and New York-based education start-up has brought a brand new approach to education on the African continent.
Instead of charging students for a four-year degree before releasing them to a brutal economic environment characterized by high unemployment, Andela recruits intelligent, local talents through a rigorous testing and interview process and then pays each student approximately $500 each month, with benefits, at the start of a four year fellowship designed to transform even the least tech-inclined person into a world-class software developer or a project manager.
Andela is a global talent accelerator that produces excellent developers and connects them with top employers. Andela finds the brightest young people in Africa and gives them the training and mentorship needed to thrive as full-time, remote developers for companies around the world.
The company is backed by investors including Steve Case, Omidyar Network, Founder Collective, Rothenberg Ventures, Learn Capital, Melo7 Tech Partners, Chris Hughes and Susa Ventures. Andela has offices in North America and Africa.
What is Andela?
Andela extends engineering teams with world-class software developers. We recruit the most talented developers on the African continent, shape them into technical leaders, and place them as full-time distributed team members with companies that range from Microsoft and IBM to dozens of high-growth startups.
Hotels.ng
Hotels.ng is not a new startup, but they have defied gravity to maintain a solid position in the hotel booking space. Founder and CEO Mark Essien has continued to show incredible persistence and leadership in spite of a robust challenge from Rocket-backed Jovago, ensuring that his company will continue to serve his market for the near future.
Hotels.ng allows customers to book hotel rooms online, providing list of hotels from all across Nigeria with hotel descriptions, photos, prices and reviews to ensure customers stay in good, clean and safe hotels all over the country.
It only launched two years ago, and yet Hotels.ng has grown exponentially to become the “largest hotel booking site in Nigeria.”
Hotels.ng, has surpassed their milestone of 6,000 hotels in Nigeria – that is another 1,000 hotels added in just within 4 months making it the biggest hotel booking website in Nigeria but closely followed by Jovago which officially announced in October that it had 5000 hotels.
“As end of 2014 arrives, hotels.ng has reached 6000 hotels in Nigeria. We have gone from burning cash at the start of the year to profit of multiple our monthly expenses at end of the year.
We have built a tight, independent team that works efficiently without intervention. We recorded almost no customer complaints in last two months, while booking tens of thousands of people.”
Mark Essien, founder and CEO of Hotels.ng
Digits – Hotels.NG
This edition of Digits features Mark Essien, founder of Hotels.ng, an online portal that allows users to book hotels from a selection of over 5000 hotels across Nigeria. Watch to find out how he turned a passion for technology into a company that has redefined the Nigerian hotel booking process by providing the largest selection of hotels online across the country.
What are the other Nigerian projects that have nearly blown the whole world up? Go to the next page & find it out!
Delivery Science
Named the most impressive new startup of 2015 so far, Delivery Science is an experienced and competent team solving a real problem with real customers and local context. Delivery Science claims that access to data and data inferences enables consumer goods companies to plug leakages in the transport system.
They use a physical hardware device which is installed on the vehicle to monitor goods tampering, drivers taking on unauthorized jobs, and for people transporters, calculates approximate fare the vehicle should have received that day based on number of people who have got on the vehicle, places they’ve got off, and average fares for those routes.
The potential for success is astounding as this start-up is tackling a major problem in the transport industry.
Truppr
Bosun Tijani, co-founder of the Co-Creation Hub started this project to find people to play sports with but it has quickly taken on a life of its own. What makes Truppr special is the community of fitness enthusiasts that has developed around it and the events it holds, making it a real phenomenon and actually touching people’s lives. We are very excited to see what they will do next.
The Truppr Run that took place on Saturday, September 19, 2015, was described by participants as fun and exciting.
The Truppr Run, organized by the Truppr, is held every month across various cities in Nigeria, as well as in Nairobi in Kenya.
During September Run Truppr in collaboration with Samsung Nigeria rewarded users by giving a Samsung Gear Fit watch at each location of the Truppr Run.
Download Truppr app by Truppr:
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Excited Truppr Fitness Fans
Truppr is fun! Just ask Dami, Ann and Bankole. It is fun to keep fit by engaging in fun activities with regular people. You meet with fitness junkies as well as new people just starting up. Sign up for a free account at http://truppr.com and see how you can be a part of an activity or create one in your neighbourhood.
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