The Nigerian startup ecosystem A public record

Organisations, working with early-stage founders, in Lagos

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360Creative Innovation Hub

Lagos
  • Programmes

360Creative Innovation Hub is a fashion business accelerator working to help emerging fashion designers grow through strategic business support and expansion opportunities.

For
  • Early-stage founders
  • Designers and creatives
Helps with
  • Business and operating skills
  • Access to customers and markets
Funding unclear Not yet confirmed · checked Sept 2026

8thGear Hub

Akure, Lagos
  • Talent
  • Programmes

8thGear is a for-profit [Edu-Tech] Social Enterprise with a soft spot for Culture, Creativity, Technology and Small & Growing Businesses (SGBs) Support. Their obsession is job placements, capability/Skills development, and enterprise development for youths in Nigeria and their growing businesses.

For
  • Early-stage founders
  • Growth-stage founders
  • Young people
Helps with
  • Technical skills training
  • Business and operating skills
  • Finding a team
Funding unclear Not yet confirmed · checked Sept 2026

CeedCap Studio

Lagos
  • Funding
  • Technical

CeedCap is a startup studio on a mission to build great companies. We combine financial capital, human capital and analytical rigour to de-risk the process of building new ventures. As an innovation-driven startup studio, we operate on a mix of cash and equity for founders building digital products of the future.

For
  • Early-stage founders
Helps with
  • Access to capital
  • Building the product
  • Finding a team
Writes cheques Not yet confirmed · checked Sept 2026

Civic Hive

Lagos
  • Media
  • Programmes

Civichive was set up to improve the capacity of existing NGOs and media organizations, thereby making a huge impact within the Nigerian space. Their mission is to build a community of active citizens and civil society organizations that find the intersection between data, design & technology.

For
  • Early-stage founders
  • Other organisations in the ecosystem
Helps with
  • Business and operating skills
  • Visibility and media
  • Community and peer support
Funding unclear Not yet confirmed · checked Sept 2026

Co-creation Hub

Lagos
  • Funding
  • Programmes
  • Technical

We are the leading pan-African creative and innovation ecosystem enabler. Our mission is to accelerate the application of social capital and technology for economic prosperity across Africa.

For
  • Early-stage founders
  • Growth-stage founders
  • Designers and creatives
Helps with
  • Access to capital
  • Building the product
  • Business and operating skills
Writes cheques Not yet confirmed · checked Sept 2026

Creative Space Startups

Lagos
  • Programmes
  • Workspace

Creative Space Startups focuses on how to continually fuel, support and grow a start-up community that helps aspiring entrepreneurs to start and scale their enterprises, hopefully creating jobs that Nigeria & Africa need so dearly. They are an open space focused on social impact, skill acquisition and innovation.

For
  • Aspiring founders and students
  • Early-stage founders
Helps with
  • Business and operating skills
  • Workspace
  • Community and peer support
Funding unclear Not yet confirmed · checked Sept 2026

DFC Technology Hub

Abuja, Lagos
  • Funding
  • Programmes

DFC Technology Hub Limited is a Technology Accelerator, Startup Incubator, and technology-focused venture capital company with a strategic initiative to accelerate the pace of technology development in Africa.

For
  • Early-stage founders
Helps with
  • Access to capital
  • Investment readiness
Writes cheques Not yet confirmed · checked Sept 2026

Eko Innovation Centre

Lagos
  • Programmes
  • Technical

Eko Innovation Centre focuses on accelerating enterprises by leveraging innovation and technology at the core of their business. Their goal is to be the leading driver for economic growth through enterprise development and scaling enterprise employability.

For
  • Early-stage founders
  • Growth-stage founders
Helps with
  • Building the product
  • Business and operating skills
Funding unclear Not yet confirmed · checked Sept 2026

Equilibrium Zone

Ibadan, Lagos
  • Funding
  • Programmes

Equilibrium zone is an innovation hub creating, innovating, nurturing, supporting and enabling early-stage promising companies that are solving social problems and creating economic value in Africa. We incubate and invest in innovative start-ups and enterprises by providing them with the adequate structure, strategy, data, tools, support and competent workforce to accelerate their growth and enable them to scale.

For
  • Early-stage founders
Helps with
  • Access to capital
  • Investment readiness
  • Business and operating skills
Writes cheques Not yet confirmed · checked Sept 2026

Eridan Group

Lagos
  • Programmes
  • Technical

Eridan Group is a venture builder promoting entrepreneurs to build enterprises that transform the world. They connect with, train, and empower startups to become accomplished leaders to advance, accelerate, and scale impact enterprises in collaboration with purposeful investors and organizations.

For
  • Early-stage founders
  • Growth-stage founders
Helps with
  • Building the product
  • Business and operating skills
  • Mentorship
Funding unclear Not yet confirmed · checked Sept 2026

Exponential Hub

Lagos
  • Programmes

Exponential Hub is an arm of Simply Exponential Consult Limited and is oriented around entrepreneurship and employability. They have had one incubation cohort since inception.

For
  • Early-stage founders
  • Young people
Helps with
  • Business and operating skills
  • Finding a team
Funding unclear Not yet confirmed · checked Sept 2026

Impact Hub Lagos

Lagos
  • Programmes
  • Workspace

Impact Hub Lagos aims to help individuals all over the world move from intention to impact by serving as a springboard for exploring ideas and sharing knowledge; a curator of innovation through labs, learning spaces, incubation and acceleration programs and as facilitators of essential resources and capital.

For
  • Aspiring founders and students
  • Early-stage founders
Helps with
  • Business and operating skills
  • Workspace
  • Community and peer support
Funding unclear Not yet confirmed · checked Sept 2026

KRISTINA JADE CENTER

Lagos
  • Workspace

Kristina Jade Center is a co-creation space that supports a community of entrepreneurs and professionals through connections, creativity, and collaboration. The center aims to provide a productive and innovative environment where entrepreneurs can learn, work, and grow their businesses.

For
  • Early-stage founders
  • Designers and creatives
Helps with
  • Workspace
  • Introductions and network
  • Community and peer support
Funding unclear Not yet confirmed · checked Sept 2026

Knight Ventures (KV Hub)

Lagos
  • Programmes
  • Workspace

The KV hub is a catalyst for growth and creativity, fostering an ecosystem of support and opportunity for entrepreneurs across the continent. the hub serves as a dynamic and engaging environment for the development of innovative ideas and the nurturing of emerging talent.

For
  • Early-stage founders
Helps with
  • Introductions and network
  • Community and peer support
Funding unclear Not yet confirmed · checked Sept 2026

Lhaude Africa

Lagos
  • Talent
  • Programmes

Lhaude Africa is a leading creative design institution that fosters opportunities for fashion entrepreneurs and talents to grow and thrive. With a vision to establish a vibrant fashion community where talents, ideas, and creativity can flourish, Lhaude Africa invests in fashion education, capacity development, mentorship, and community support while facilitating funding opportunities. In 2020, they launched “The Creative Haven,” a digital community designed as a space for fashion entrepreneurs and talents to connect, collaborate, and create.

For
  • Early-stage founders
  • Designers and creatives
Helps with
  • Technical skills training
  • Community and peer support
Funding unclear Not yet confirmed · checked Sept 2026

MusterPoint Coworking Space

Lagos
  • Workspace

MusterPoint offers diverse options to providing productivity focus, well curated workplaces that encourage collaboration, innovation, a balanced lifestyle and experience for Entrepreneurs, Creators, Start-Ups, Small Businesses, and Large Corporations as well, through our products and services.

For
  • Early-stage founders
  • Designers and creatives
Helps with
  • Workspace
  • Community and peer support
Funding unclear Not yet confirmed · checked Sept 2026

Nebiant Analytics

Lagos
  • Talent
  • Programmes

Nebiant Analytics is a tech data lab dedicated to empowering women, entrepreneurs, and professionals by providing training programs and courses in technology, data, and AI skills.

For
  • Early-stage founders
  • Developers and engineers
  • Women in tech
Helps with
  • Technical skills training
Funding unclear Not yet confirmed · checked Sept 2026

Opolo Global Innovation

Ile-Ife, Lagos, Osogbo, Port Harcourt
  • Programmes
  • Workspace

Opolo Global Innovation Hub is focused on developing viable solutions to local challenges by utilizing innovation from their inventive workspaces and inspiring creativity, advancing effectiveness and encouraging coordinated efforts among members. Their mission is to accelerate growth of ideas that create opportunities through innovation, design-thinking, and a robust global network of partners.

For
  • Early-stage founders
  • Designers and creatives
Helps with
  • Business and operating skills
  • Workspace
  • Community and peer support
Funding unclear Not yet confirmed · checked Sept 2026

Plus Innovation Hub

Lagos
  • Talent
  • Programmes

Plus Innovation Hub is a community of vibrant startups and tech enthusiasts in Lagos. We offer services like Annual Incubation Programme, Code Camp, Digital Skills Training, Hack SDG, Business Clinics and Masterclasses for startups, as well as organize tech meetups for incubatees. We are a founding member of ISN Nigeria.

For
  • Early-stage founders
  • Developers and engineers
Helps with
  • Technical skills training
  • Business and operating skills
  • Community and peer support
Funding unclear Not yet confirmed · checked Sept 2026

Roothub

Abakaliki, Calabar, Ibadan, Lagos, Port Harcourt, Uyo
  • Programmes
  • Workspace

Roothub incubates, accelerates and supports business ideas to increase the number of self-sufficient Businesses. They are a co-creation space that is focused on social impact, job creation and innovation.

For
  • Aspiring founders and students
  • Early-stage founders
Helps with
  • Business and operating skills
  • Workspace
  • Community and peer support
Funding unclear Not yet confirmed · checked Sept 2026

TVC Labs

Lagos
  • Programmes
  • Technical

TVC Labs is an incubator, a profit making venture desired to implement strategic technology solutions for startups,post-revenue company or even for a mature organization. the vision is to achieve both innovation and independence for new ideas and others within the African continent, especially West Africa. They have currently invested in 8 startups which are at seed stage and 2 growth stage.

For
  • Early-stage founders
  • Growth-stage founders
Helps with
  • Investment readiness
  • Building the product
Funding unclear Not yet confirmed · checked Sept 2026

The Bulb Africa

Lagos
  • Talent
  • Programmes

The Bulb Africa is a platform for Africans leveraging technology. They support entrepreneurs and startups with their incubation and acceleration programs, which allows them to help turn ideas into business realities.

For
  • Early-stage founders
  • Developers and engineers
Helps with
  • Technical skills training
  • Business and operating skills
Funding unclear Not yet confirmed · checked Sept 2026

The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law Innovation Hubs

Lagos
  • Funding
  • Programmes

The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law Innovation Hubs is HilL’s flagship innovation programme that funds, trains, and scales a global cohort of justice startups each year. They provide grant funding, business acceleration services, access to free technical tools, connections to local and global mentors, and promotional opportunities.

For
  • Early-stage founders
Helps with
  • Access to capital
  • Investment readiness
  • Regulation, policy and compliance
Writes cheques Not yet confirmed · checked Sept 2026

The Nest Innovation Technology Park Ltd

Lagos
  • Programmes
  • Workspace

The Nest seeks to take the lead in continuous education and provide an enabling environment for startups and businesses to grow and to drive the human capacity development of the youth towards productivity through training, funding, mentoring and collaboration.

For
  • Aspiring founders and students
  • Early-stage founders
Helps with
  • Business and operating skills
  • Workspace
  • Mentorship
Funding unclear Not yet confirmed · checked Sept 2026

Wennovation Hub

Abuja, Ibadan, Lagos
  • Funding
  • Programmes
  • Workspace

Wennovation Hub is a venture development company that supports early stage startups and growing teams across emerging sectors, giving them access to incubation, acceleration, investment opportunities, market access and mentorship to build thriving startups. We are Empowering African Entrepreneurs and building commercially viable businesses. As the pioneer innovation hub in Nigeria, we have propelled numerous startups to success and continue to do so across various sectors.

For
  • Early-stage founders
  • Growth-stage founders
  • Women in tech
Helps with
  • Investment readiness
  • Mentorship
  • Access to customers and markets