The Nigerian startup ecosystem A public record

Organisations, helping with business and operating skills, in sector agnostic, in Lagos

13 organisations  ·  start again

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

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

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

RLabs Nigeria

Lagos
  • Talent
  • Programmes

RLabs is a social enterprise that has impacted more than 7.5 million individuals globally in 22 countries reconstructing communities through training, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

For
  • Young people
Helps with
  • Technical skills training
  • Business and operating skills
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

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 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