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  culled from Techcabal The Lagos Angel Network (LAN) announces that applications are now open for the 2nd DealDay event for 2017. The Lagos StartUp DealDay is a thrice-a-year Angel investment round run by the Lagos Angel Network. The first DealDay pitch event for 2017 took place on Friday, March 24th, and brought together LAN members, other angel investors and Lagos start-up ecosystem players in a process where the most worthy startup ventures (in target sectors) pitched. As an investment vehicle, in 2016, Lagos StartUp DealDay raised over N100 million from LAN members and the early stage investment community through which it invested in some of the fastest growing start-ups in Nigeria including Café Neo and Big Cabal Media. Lagos Angel network has this year increased the funding available to ventures through the DealDay to N25-N50m per venture and restricted participation to only ventures that have been in business for at least two and no more than five years, incorpor...

Melt Water Entrepreneurship school held a successful meet with upcoming tech startup entrepreneurs in Neo Cafe Ikoyi on Tuesday 23rd of August 2016.The event was well attended with a blend of upcoming,established and wannabe entrepreneurs being in attendant. Entrepreneus behind Startups like E-worker,Formelo,Yearbooke,Diamond TV,Tech Cabal,etc were in attandance The event started few minutes to 7pm with the co-ordinator of MEST Ghana introducing the incubator of  Nigerian branch,Neku Atawodi.Thereafter, the panelists who were to explain some aspects of  joint venture capital,business angels and traction for investing were introduced.Thereafter questions were been asked by the entrepreneurs and the panelist answered.One of the question was:what are they things business angels look out for before investing.The answers were somewhat similar.The basic ones were: passion,the team,traction,etc. The meet afforded the attendees opportunities to network amongstthemselves....