Ingressive brings top investors to Lagos for tour of tech

The Nigerian technology ecosystem will receive a
new round of filip as Ingressive, an investment
platform for tech entrepreneurs in Africa with a
5,000-member investor and mentor network focused
on innovative African technology, is hosting
renowned tech executives and investors as part of a
week-long Tour of Tech in Lagos.
Tour of Tech is the latest in a line of events by
Ingressive to promote investment and advisory in
the Nigerian tech industry. Previous tours have
brought in Y Combinator, 500 Startups, and Techstars
to Nigeria to meet, partner with and inspire local
tech companies and founders.
“We are thrilled to host this diverse group of tech
executives in Lagos, “ said Maya Horgan-Famodu,
founder and CEO, Ingressive. “Some are here
independently as a strictly exploratory opportunity,
others from our group are here to close deals.”
Themed Capacity Building, the Tour of Tech will take
place in Lagos from November 15th to 20th.
Yvonne Wassenaar, CIO of New Relic, Grieg Coppe,
CSO of Intuit, Monique Woodard, Partner of 500
Startups, 5 executives from GitHub are expected to
be part of the event.
Coming after the visits of Facebook’s co-founder
Mark Zuckerberg in August and that of Y Combinator
CEO, Michael Seibel, in September, Horgan-Famodu
hoped the tour would open the Nigerian tech
ecosystem more to the outside world, stimulate
growth and encourage collaboration between local
and international tech players.
Analysts are upbeat about the possibilities the tour
holds for the country. They believe that Nigeria is
not just a consumer of technology, but has become,
over the last few years, a country where a youthful
population have begun to use technology to create
solutions to problems in their society. A fact Horgan-
Famodu and her company recognise.
The investors ingressive invited, she said, “plan to
invest, source local talent, partner with interesting
organisations and forge lasting relationships with
hackers on-ground in a bid to form ties and bridge
into the continent”.
As part of the activities of the tour, Ingressive in
conjunction with Google Launchpad for Developers,
GitHub, and 500 Startups will also host High Growth
Summit, a two-day conference centred on teaching
African founders how to launch, scale, and fund
high growth African businesses.