AfriLabs invites you to apply for the RevUp Women Initiative: Nigeria Edition, an enterprise development initiative designed to accelerate early-stage, women-led businesses within the Agribusiness and E-commerce sectors through tailored support, capacity building, and access to a thriving pan-African innovation ecosystem.
Requirements
E-commerce businesses are defined as companies that sell physical or digital products or services primarily through an online platform, including:
- Tech-enabled online retail stores, such as fashion, beauty, or household goods brands that operate through a website.
- Online marketplaces where customers can browse products, add to cart, and pay directly on the platform
- Digital service providers that enable online payments or bookings (e.g., logistics, consulting, edtech, Healthtech)
- Subscription-based product or service models delivered online
Agribusinesses for this programme are defined as agriculture-based enterprises that integrate technology or innovation across the agricultural value chain, including:
- Tech-enabled food processing and packaging
- Agro-logistics platforms and cold chain solutions
- Smart or precision farming (e.g., use of IoT, data, or mobile tools)
- E-extension, e-commerce for farm produce, or digital platforms for farm inputs
- Agric-fintech or insurance solutions for farmers
- Value-added production or sustainable agritech solutions
Benefits
Participants will benefit from:
- A 12-week intensive hybrid acceleration programme focused on business growth, market expansion, and investment readiness.
- Access to high-quality female mentors across Africa.
- Visibility and access to investment and funding opportunities, and the wider AfriLabs’ network.
- Eligibility to win from $24,000 in funding, awarded to six outstanding women entrepreneurs:
- $5,000 each for three first-place winners
- $3,000 each for three second-place winners
- Opportunities to showcase your business and position it for scale.
- Inclusion in a dynamic community of women entrepreneurs driving innovation.
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