The Wennovation Hub

Pathways to Innovation

The Wennovation Hub as a true hub for start-up business development located in Ikeja, Lagos with a focus on synthesizing high impact start-up growth, facilitation and development in West Africa. The hub provides office space, ongoing support, network & contacts, funding and affordable project support for innovative early stage companies in Nigeria and the ECOWAS region.

Currently, the following programs are available on the Wennovation Hub stable for different categories of entrepreneurs:

• WennoConsulting - Bi-weekly first time complimentary consulting and low-cost follow-ups for start-ups at various stages of development.
  
  
• WennoCamps – The pilot phase of the full-blown process is targeted at higher education teams of student entrepreneurs wanting to build marketable products, and float a business to monetize such. The Wennovation Cycles will succeed this pilot program, and will expand beyond the higher education demographic.
  
  
• Wennovation Platform – This program provides established early stage technology entrepreneurs with ongoing project pursuit, follow-ups and execution support as well as expansion space and network to grow their business.

The Innovation Incubation Initiative (I-3) the result of the strategic partnership between Africa’s premier think tank, African Leadership Forum and Nigeria based venture incubator, LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited. The initiative is designed to develop and administer:

• A permanent business incubation program and facility, to be known as the Wennovation HubTM
• A pool of investible equity fund to support ideas emerging from the Wennovation HubTM to be known as The EDGE Fund: Entrepreneurship Development and Growth Equity Fund