The Nest Hub launches a tech innovation park to give youths mentorship, business tools & funding

The Nest Hub has launched its technology
innovation park to create an enabling environment for technology enthusiasts to
thrive, collaborate and achieve their desired results.

Within the innovation park, Nigerian youths passionate about technology can meet, collaborate and work on solutions to local problems as well as grow their ideas into big business.

Co-founder, The Nest, Mr. Peter Ogedengbe while
expressing his excitement about the development remarked that the Innovation
Park is continuously working in line with technology and business entrepreneurs’
demand to ensure that they grow and have access to mentorship, business
improvement tools and funding.

Fellow Co-Founder, Oluwajoba Oloba, who led
the media parley explained what The Nest offered: “This has a 50-Seater,
state-of-the-art and well-equipped training facility that is safe, comfortable,
aesthetically pleasing, and accessible. The nature of work is changing, so
we designed the workspaces to cater for your needs, while you focus on your
job. 

“Incubation is available for startups with
products and solutions within Nest’s focus areas, providing funding with the
objective of helping businesses transform their ideas into successful high
growth enterprises.”

Beyond all of these, the innovation park
houses a business lounge which allows the Nest members to get much needed
productive breaks from work, while ensuring they can network and pitch their
ideas to local and international investors in a serene environment.” Technology paves the
road to the future, and we are excited to be able to create a smooth ride to
this future for Nigeria” he said.

Director of Incubation, ‘Segun Maleghemi, during
the fire-side chat at the official launch event said, “The opening of the Nest shows
our resolve to continually drive initiatives that place ‘Techpreneurs’ first”.

At the innovation park, providing the right
environment, in addition to technical and mentoring support, Techpreneurs will enjoy
a collective experience; professional guidance to making the right decisions in
terms of technical, legal, market engagement and even diverting or pivoting of
their businesses.

“Our park is a community that fosters
innovation, helping them to thrive by encouraging experimentation, research,
and adoption of new and emerging technologies, in another five to ten years, our plan is to create
the largest IT focused technology fund in Nigeria.” he added.

Delivering the key note address, the Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria,
Mr. Adebisi Shonubi, explained that Hubs are needed facilities for
technologists, social entrepreneurs, government, tech companies, and impact
investors if they are to thrive and if we are serious about growing the
economy.

“We need to take the lead in providing enabling
environments for start-ups and businesses to grow and to drive the human
capacity development of our youth towards productivity through training,
funding, mentoring and collaboration. We need to focus on the adoption of
emerging technologies to create data-driven solutions that
are innovative, futuristic, sustainable and commercially viable within the
economy “Shonubi said.

The Nest Innovation
Park for tech start-ups in Nigeria is located in the premium working district
of Yaba environs in Lagos. The area hosts other active hubs similar to the Nest
so safe to say the suburb can now be referred to as “YabaCon Valley” as there
is a growing number of Techpreneurial development springing forth from that
location.

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