driving digital innovation through b2b ventures and partnership
Enabling business-to-business partnerships and collaboration between technology startup and large business corporations in finance, agriculture, healthcare, mobility and logistics.
The Client:
GIZ Make-IT in Africa
Sector:
Non-Profit, Technology
Service:
Full Project Management
The Challenge
How can we facilitate increased market access for technology startups in Nigeria.
Digital entrepreneurship has the potential to respond to systemic development issues, drive innovation, create new opportunities and accommodate job seekers. However, in Africa, many tech startups are unable to make the leap to market maturity due to the lack of access to capital, customers, qualified personnel and digital infrastructure.
The SOLUTION
In response to these identified issues, over the next few months, GIZ’s Tech Entrepreneurship Initiative ‘Make-IT in Africa’ in collaboration with Made Culture is delivering a series of intimate Business-to-Business networking sessions for Nigerian technology entrepreneurs. This project will facilitate strategic partnering between startups, local corporations and multinational enterprises in traditional sectors including financial services, agriculture, power, health and mobility.
The outcome
DRIVING INNOVATION ACROSS THE FINANCIAL SERVICES VALUE CHAIN
Southern Sun | 28th November 2019
For the maiden edition ‘ Driving innovation across the financial services value chain’, our aim was to explore how financial service providers can leverage on the capabilities of technology-enabled startups to retain competitive advantage, offer more to their customers, scale solutions, processes and reach new markets.
Crucial to this session was hearing from a few thought leaders and startups already engaged in successful partnerships in Nigeria. This included a keynote speech from Tobi Amira the Chief Operating Officer of Team Apt, followed by a panel discussion moderated by Dolapo Adejuyigbe - Managing Partner, Traction Venture Partners and included Edwin Ajogun - Programme Director, Passion Incubator; Salami Abolore - Founder, RIBY; Jay Alabraba - Co-Founder & Head of Business Development, Paga; Emeka Mordi - Chief Operation Officer, Carbon and Nwaka Enebli - Head of Partnerships, ALAT by Wema.
WOMEN IN TECH CLINICS
The Women In Tech Clinics are a series of business and personal growth events open to women founders, entrepreneurs and those working in the tech industry to come together and look at ways to engage and get inspired by vibrant and talented women in the tech community, liaise with female investors and enhance their skills portfolio.
Each day will focus on bringing together participants to engage in a series of specialized and tailored activities designed to provide in-depth training on how women can scale and grow their businesses, leverage on existing resources and build lasting networks.
DRIVING FMCG SUPPLY CHAIN CONTINUITY THROUGH B2B PARTNERSHIPS
Virtual Session | 30th April 2020
This event brought together a carefully selected list of technology-enabled startups in the FMCG supply chain, SMEs, corporates and financiers to:
Discuss the global pandemic and the risk to business continuity in the FMCG sector, and
Identify opportunities for B2B partnerships between relevant to stakeholders to drive digital innovation across the supply chain.
The event also included a high-level open discussion titled "COVID-19 and the Risk to Business Continuity - What is Working?” moderated by Affiong Williams - CEO, ReelFruit which included presentations by Tayo Illori - Supply Chain Manager, Honeywell Flour Mills Plc, Deji Rotimi - Abu's Market, CEO - Hill's Harvest, Deji Balogun - CEO, AFEX and Fisayo Dorujaiye - Associate, Investments and Portfolio Management, EchoVC.
SCALING ACCESS TO QUALITY HEALTHCARE THROUGH B2B PARTNERSHIPS
Virtual Session | 28th May 2020
This event is looking at how healthcare tech businesses can leverage on B2B partnerships to improve the availability, accessibility, affordability and quality of healthcare services in Nigeria. Divided into two open sessions,
The first session titled "Increasing access to affordable healthcare service” was moderated by Mayowa Alli, a Partner at Traction Venture Partner and included presentations by Chinny .C. Ogunro the CEO of Wellspring Health and Dr Jimi Coker the CEO of Lagoon Hospitals.
The second session titled “Optimizing the distribution supply chain” was moderated by Dolapo Adejuyigbe a Partner at Traction Venture Partners with presentations by Bosun Tijani the CEO of Co-Creation Hub and Obinna Ukachukwu the Divisional Head for the Education and Healthcare Sector at Sterling Bank PLC.
“Made Culture‘s design-centered approach to implementing impactful programmes has positively contributed to Make-IT’s portfolio of interventions in Nigeria. We’ve always appreciated the attention that they give to producing quality results and ensuring lasting impact.”
- Chiemelie Umenyiora | Programme Coordinator - Make IT in Africa (GIZ)”