Itanna To Boost Nigerian Start ups With $300,000
A home grown means of funding for Nigerian starts ups is now a possible, via Itanna. Itanna, is the Venture Capital Platform of Honeywell Group and it has earmarked 300,000 Dollars to boost growth of technology start-ups in 2019. The Director of Itanna, Tomi Otudeko, made this known on Monday in Lagos. Itanna is a platform to support technical start-ups through investment and mentorship programmes, nurturing their ideas, visions, expertise as well as resources. She said that the 300,000 Dollars would be invested in 10 start-ups across Africa. Otudeko said that the 2019 edition of its Accelerator Programme, which was the second edition had begun, hence, applications are needed from technology-enabled start-ups. She said that Itanna was launched in 2018 with four cohort companies chosen after a selection process that began with more than 200 applications. The director said that the 2018 cohort companies were Accounteer, KoloPay, Tradebuza and PowerCube while thre...