The SLA Accelerator is a 6 month program designed to identify, support and fund the next generation of Nigeria’s brightest entrepreneurs.
Media attention to raise your local + international profile
Direct access to Nigeria’s best business minds
Opportunity for N2mn investment
Opportunity to pitch to a room full of investors
6 months of hands on support from a team of experts
2016 SLA Accelerator Portfolio Companies
Art Splash Studio – A virtual art studio offering a social art experience through our Paint Nite painting classes hosted at different venues in Abuja.
BathKandy Co. – Creates sumptuous dessert-inspired beauty treats for women who crave the finer things.
Bubble Tii – Bringing the Bubble Tea phenomena to Africa.
DeliveryBros – Helps you save time and stress through pickup and drops from the market to your house or office.
Fresh Direct Produce and Agro-Allied Services – An eco-friendly social enterprise that produces premium organic produce through hydroponics and community action.
Keek’s – Designs tailored weight loss packages for busy women who want a plan that is both effective and simple to implement.
Koko’s Kitchen – An indigenous brand of confectionary dry mixes specially tailored to suit the taste buds and pocketbook of the quintessential person on the go.
Independent Personal Assistant (iPA) – Provides strategic virtual assistance to high-level executives across Africa. We take care of the mundane while you focus on what matters.
Medsaf.com – Solves the medical industry’s procurement problem, by providing a technology enabled distribution solution resulting in transparency and simplicity.
Shuttlers – Enables professionals to access comfortable and efficient transportation to and from work using seat matching technology.
Photo credit: Mohini Ufeli
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How The Program Works
See The 2015 Pitch Competition Participants
SLA Accelerator is in partnership with the Work in Progress! Alliance and Guaranty Trust Bank
The Work in Progress! Alliance is focused on unlocking the economic potential of young women and men in Egypt, Nigeria and Somalia. The project aims to enable them to generate sustainable and living incomes – by finding regular employment or starting enterprises. Alliance partners include Oxfam, VC4Africa and Butterfly Works.
Guaranty Trust Bank is recognized as one of the most profitable and well managed financial institutions in Africa for providing quality service, ethics, professionalism, integrity, innovation and internationally accepted corporate governance standards.
SLA Accelerator is also one of 16 global incubators and accelerators selected as a Village Capital Community
VilCap Communities enables anyone, anywhere to use peer-selected investment to support entrepreneurs within their communities. In 2016, each VilCap Community will be running its own entrepreneur training program and investing in two ventures using Village Capital's peer selection methodology.