Ventures Platform

VP provides seed funding, business strategy and short term residency for accepted fellows for a 10% equity in the company. VP provides the startup with mentorship, business re-engineering, work space, living space, back office support, shared services and seed funding”.[3]

At the end of the 16 week program, the startups pitch their business to an audience of investors[4]

Between 2016 and 2017, VP invested in over 20 companies including Mobileforms, Wesabi, Payconnect, Jalo, Proteach, Lizzie's creations, drivers.ng, myPadi.ng, Accounteer, LastPrice, VivaXD and ThriveAgric[5] In 2017, VP expanded to Lagos.[6]

In 2020, VP launched the iNOVO accelerator with Startupbootcamp to invest in Agriple, Farmer First Technologies, Rural Farmers Hub, Afrilearn, DigiLearns, Schoola, Gleeworld Pharmacy, Pharmaserv Health Project, and Wellvis.[7][8]

Demo Day, program and events

Kola Aina, the acceleration team and the companies during the second accelerator program.

VP’s training rooms and outdoor greens have been used for bootcamps, trainings, and most recently coding workshops targeting girls and marginalized youth.

Events include: Aso Villa Demo Day 2016 BootCamp, Slush 2016 Local Competition,[9] CodeBusAfrica,[10] SheLeadsAfrica speed networking night, Starta Silicon Drinkup, Techstars Atlanta in Abuja.

Ventures Platform Foundation is the social impact arm of Ventures Platform that builds and supports social impact tech-entrepreneurs in Africa.