Startup Arewa

Startup Arewa is creating an ecosystem that stimulates tech entrepreneurship and fosters economic growth. We develop programs that equip and empower entrepreneurs, inspire innovation, and allow all in the ecosystem to share resources. We are creating a community built on trust and respect with focus in facilitating enabling enviroment for Arewa Startups.

ArewaFemTechFest 2021.

StartupStartup Arewa in partnership with Financial Services Innovators (FSI) is glad to announce the 2021 virtual hackathon competition tagged #ArewaFemTechFest.

Accelerating Innovation in Northern Nigeria

We are an innovation centre dedicated to accelerating social capital and technology for economic prosperity in Northern Nigeria.

Our Core Values

  • ​ECOSYSTEM
  • INN0VATION
  • CREDIBILITY
  • DEVELOPMENT
  • 01
    ​Ecosystem

    We are committed to mapping and organizing all the required resources across the Northern Nigeria to support the birth and growth of innovation and startups in the region

  • 02
    INNOVATION

    We drive innovation by supporting innovators and startups in developing and deploying innovative solutions across the Northern Nigeria States and beyond.

  • 03
    CREDIBILITY

    We support innovators and startups with over combined 50 years of experience, insights, resources, networks and tools found in our ecosystem to earn investors and partners trust

  • 04
    DEVELOPMENT

    We are on a mission to engineer the development of native solutions that will support in achieving the Government development needs in the Northern Region of Nigeria.

2016
FOUNDED
5000
Startups Reached
19
States Coverage
2000+
Volunteers

Our Support Structure

Project Management

Do you have a tech or media content project that you don’t have the resources to develop? We can manage the development and delivery of the project for you.

Co-Working

We offer a mix of creative work spaces and meeting rooms. Located at the 4th floor, The Kings Plaza, Kado Abuja at no cost to tech entrepreneurs with viable ideas.

Mentorship

We have in house mentors and external individuals that are committed to providing mentorship for start-ups and scale-ups that are members of our community.

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Our Programs

T19K

 

STARTUP AREWA INNOVATION SUMMIT

 

STARTUP AREWA INNOVATION FUND

 

T19K

Through Project T19K Startup Arewa is committed in the next 10 years to Provide;

  • Entrepreneurship education to 19,000 young innovators across 19 Northern States by Dangote Business School and Center for Strategic Enterprise Development
  • Establish 3,800 partnership based companies with the 19,000 innovators from across the 19 northern states
  • And funds the companies with a minimum of N2, 000,000 each for the next 10 years through Arewa Innovation Fund. For more details click here

STARTUP AREWA INNOVATION SUMMIT

Startup Arewa Innovation Summit (SAIS) is an innovation and start-up promotion forum that re-engineers and position the next generation of Arewa innovators playing in the Arewa start-up ecosystem for innovation leadership in Nigeria/Africa.

The forum mobilizes and engages key Arewa stakeholders and thought leaders to support in evolving a sustainable innovation culture that is friendly and supportive for growth and acceleration of the teaming young start-ups across the 19 Northern States in Nigeria.
To register for the forth-coming Start up Arewa Innovation Summit click here. .

STARTUP AREWA INNOVATION FUND

Arewa Innovation Fund is N8, 360,000,000 Naira dedicated funding for 3,800 Companies that will be identified from across 19 Northern States of Nigeria in the next 10 years.

This fund is expected to be mobilized from the 19 Northern State Governments, International NGOs, Corporate organizations and other Arewa key stakeholders to provide a minimum of N2,000,000 Seed Capital for each of the 3,800 companies in the next 10 years including 10% of the fund administrative cost. For more details click here

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WHAT WE DO

We develop programs that equip and empower entrepreneurs, inspire innovation, and allow all in the Northern Nigeria Tech ecosystem to share resources.