The Lagos Founder Institute, the local chapter of the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, is proud to announce the newest Alumni from the Lagos Spring 2025 program.
After meticulous selection process and intense four months of aggressive business-building sprints, constant evaluation, and feedback from investors and mentors, just 18 companies were able to make it through.
Each of these Founders have demonstrated a high level of perseverance and creativity, and their businesses have been thoroughly vetted and supported by a panel of Lagos's top startup experts and investors.
And now, without further ado, we present the Alumni of the Lagos program:
- MINE Media Ltd. - Providing SMEs with a 360-degree support app, MINE Media Ltd. delivers intellectual (head), psychological (heart), and practical (hand) guidance to help them learn, cope, and grow sustainable businesses that matter.
- CLARGREEN Inc. - Converting agricultural waste (biomass) into biochar, removing carbon from the atmosphere, locking it into the soil, and empowering farmers to grow more food sustainably with a biochar-based organic fertilizer that helps fight climate change.
- WhoGet Technology Limited - Providing a buyer-centric marketplace, WhoGet connects buyers with sellers through simple requests, ensuring convenience, trust, and transparency in every transaction.
- DTECH CONSTRUCT-LINK LTD - A mobile-first marketplace that connects small and mid-size contractors with verified local suppliers and equipment rental providers, offering secure payments, real-time price comparison, and logistics coordination.
- ChangeMakers Mindcare - Providing affordable, anonymous mental health support for African students to help them overcome depression, anxiety, and social isolation so they can thrive academically and personally.
- SOLAYO - Offering curated maternal care solutions for expecting and new mothers in Africa, combining digital health support, essential products, and community to ensure safe delivery and a supported motherhood journey.
- ExamsTutor.AI - An offline AI-powered tutor, exam prep, and teachers assistance for secondary schools in west Africa.
- Referlytics Ltd - Helping emerging brands and everyday creators run smarter creator-led campaigns by matching the right creators to brand campaigns and tracking real impact — making creator-led marketing easier, fairer, and more data-driven.
- LEADGAME SOLUTIONS LIMITED - Providing a gamified online community to make performance improvement enjoyable for educators and learners by building real-world skills like leadership and problem-solving through rewards, industry partnerships, and our relationship with the Association of Private Schools.
- Mofmed Medical Solutions Limited - Building hospital management softwares(HMS) to enhance operational efficiency and seamless access to data.
- Infinity AI Africa - Building a Smart AI Assistant for Data Analytics to enable everyone in the organization to access data insights easier and faster, leveraging a proprietary Cognitive AI Agent for Data Analysis.
- SMART CREATORS HUB - Providing an AI-powered content coaching app that helps African creators improve titles, thumbnails, and content strategy using platform-specific insights and local context, so they can grow and monetize faster.
- EzzyCare - Providing instant access to healthcare to connect care seekers with nearby providers within seconds, offering a premium fast-track alternative to bypass delays and access physical care when needed.
- Imfonin - Providing a trusted booking platform that brings clarity, structure, and security to Ghana’s vibrant photography market, helping people easily find and book reliable wedding photographers.
- MeSADA PCL (AD MeSADA Limited) - Developing precision planters for 50+ acre grain farmers to double planting speed, reduce seed and fertilizer waste, and increase yields by 34%.
- VectraGas - Providing smart LPG delivery and monitoring for urban food businesses in Nigeria, helping them avoid gas leaks and outages while making kitchens safer and more efficient.
- The Blueskills - Connecting households and businesses with verified, skilled blue-collar professionals (like cleaners, electricians, plumbers, and artisans) through a trusted digital platform, solving the problem of unreliable and hard-to-find service.
- QUICK SMAG - Developing a food delivery software that connects college students to buy food from a marketplace of home chefs and restaurants in Eastern Nigeria with the aid of electric vehicles.
The Lagos Spring 2025 program would not have been possible without help, because it truly takes a city to raise a startup.
Lagos Local Directors
We would first like to thank the Local Directors of the Lagos Founder Institute: Africa Admin, Ayodeji Agboola (Founder CEO, Akowe), Chika Nwogu (Founder, WriteMyBusiness), Chioma Peace (Senior Product Manager, Andela), Chukwuemeka Fred Agbata Jnr. (Co-founder, techbuild.africa), Ifedy Eze (Lead Strategist, Maisematrix Consulting), Lagos Admin (FI Lagos, FI Lagos), Oluwarotimi Fasuyi (MR, VDL TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED), Wande Adalemo (Founder/CEO, Wave5Wireless (Atmosphere)), Zinat Raji. Our Local Leaders play an incredibly important role in building the local Founder Institute program, and creating an environment and network in Lagos that is conducive to building to great companies.
In addition, the Lagos Spring 2025 program was supported by some of Lagos's top technology organizations, including:
Some of Lagos’s top startup mentors helped our founders in the program, including:
In the Founder Institute's pre-seed accelerator program, early-stage entrepreneurs and teams build their business alongside a critical support network of local startup experts that share equity in their success, and through a structured and challenging business-building process that has helped alumni raise over 1.9BN.
After Graduation, the new Lagos Founder Institute Portfolio Companies now have a fast-growing company that has been fully validated by experienced startup founders, with access to the Founder Institute's global network and post-graduate support programs to continue building their business.
Leaders of the world’s fastest-growing startups have used the Founder Institute to raise funding, building a co-founding team, get into seed-accelerators, generate traction, recruit a team, build a product, transition from employee to entrepreneur, and more. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 200+ cities and 100+ countries, the Founder Institute’s mission is to Globalize Silicon Valley and empower talented and motivated entrepreneurs to build companies that will create one million new jobs.
The next Lagos Founder Institute program is being planned now. If you are interested in being notified when applications open, visit FI.co/apply/lagos.
Alumni of the Founder Institute are creating some of the world's fastest growing startups, having raised over 1.9BN in funding, and building products people love across over 200 cities worldwide.
See the most recent news from our Grads at FI.co/news, or learn more about their stories at FI.co/graduates.
