Three firms have emerged as the top three start-ups in the first edition of the Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) Accelerator Programme in Nigeria.
The virtual programme ended with a National PitchFest on October 21, with Tetrecycle, Vabbar and Erido-Agro emerging as the top three start-ups.
The global programme, currently executed in many countries, was co-implemented by the ICESCO Nigeria office, National Board for Technology Incubation and Wennovation Hub.
The strategic objectives are to support innovators to build scalable solutions in these eight sectors: Fintech, Agriculture, Internet of Things (IOT), Artificial Intelligence, Consumertech, Cleantech, Energytech and healthtech.
The programme, which started with a call for applications across Nigeria, attracted over 90 entries which were streamlined to 10 viable, scalable and impact-creating startups.
The startups founders will be heading to Morocco to represent Nigeria at the grand final amongst other countries.
Director of the ICESCO in Nigeria, Dr Ibrahim Bashir, said: “We want to commend our implementation partner; Wennovation hub, for their hard work and expertise during the programme.
“We also extend our gratitude to NBTI and the ICESCO global board for their contributions.
“We congratulate all the participants in the program for the opportunity to be selected and wish the top teams the best of luck as they go on to represent our great nation, Nigeria on the global stage.”