50 start-ups graduate from Growth Africa Startups, LBS training programme

In keeping with its vision to assist young creative minds become next Africa’s billion-dollar entrepreneurs, Growth Africa StartUp, in partnership with Lagos Business School, has graduated the first set of 50 startups under their joint executive training and mentorship programme.
     
The 50 startups, selected from a pool of over 1,129 applicants, were given a week of intensive training by LBS’s top professors under the sponsorship of Growth Africa Startups.
     
The startups will spend next three months on the programme’s mentorship phase. At the end of the training sessions on Friday, January 28, 2022, they were allowed to pitch their ideas before a panel of judges

“The idea is to empower them through mentorship and advisory roles, give them access to market and funding. Through this training, startups can scale up to become job providers and impact society. So, we look out for the impact of the idea, how it can contribute to society and the zeal of the startup.”
   
Academic Director, Entrepreneurship Innovative Centre, LBS, Henrietta Onwuegbuzie, said the major focus of the programme is to provide impact, which will, in turn, help to scale up a business and bring it to limelight. 
   
One of the beneficiaries of the programme and Chief Executive of Winniecense Fragrance Nigeria,  Winniefred Uwujele, said the experience was quite a rare one as she appreciated the organisers of the programme.