Diaspora Opportunities

Y Combinator provides seed funding for startups. Seed funding is the earliest stage of venture funding. It pays your expenses while you’re getting started. The seed funding they give let your company come up to the level it will be able to raise funds on a larger scale.They fund virtually all startups,but they specialise in web/mobile applications.. http://www.ycombinator.com/  

InnovateAfrica  is a pan-African contest run by Code for Africa that aims to accelerate digital Innovation. They are looking for ideas that will transform the way that African media work.The ideas has to be significant and show tangible improvement to existing tools or techniques for African Journalists to gather news,tell stories, engage with audience or sustain media organizations. Selected innovations will receive a combination seed funding between the range of $12,500 to $100,000 and technology support and mentorship. Entries open:September 1, 2016 Entries close:December1,2016

Ogavenue ,a Lagos based online events platform has received $45,000 seed funding from Spark and Hotels.ng.Ogavenue covers seven cities and offers discounts for weddings,meetings or any outdoor event.The founder of Ogavenue, Andrew Airelobhegbe is so excited by the funding, especially by them joining the Spark family. Spark is a joint venture capitalist owned by Jason Njoku, co-founder of Iroko Tv, and specialises in building companies, especially the Tech start-ups. Mark Essien,  the CEO of Hotels.ng, an online hotel booking platform, was full of praise for Andrew because of the great traction the platform has garnered over a short time.He sees the investment as being symbiotic,since events booking and hotel booking when leveraged will bring out the best in the industry.