Keystone Startup Advantage Program 2024 – Get N3 Million Grant to Grow your Business
Are you a Nigerian, do you own a tech startup or have an innovative solution to solve a global need? Then the Keystone Startup Advantage (KSA) 2024 is an opportunity to connect with the best investors plus get funding to grow your business and link with like minds.
About Keystone Startup Advantage(KSA)
The Keystone Startup Advantage Program (KSA Program) is an initiative of the Keystone Bank. The program is a 3 months investor readiness program designed to offer participants life-changing opportunities while connecting them with like-minds and investors who are ready to share in their dreams. The program offers the following benefits;
- 3 Million Naira Grant to 3 successful applicants from the program.
- A platform to connect with Investors
- Participation in a Demo Day
- A Startup community/ecosystem
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Benefits
There are some of the benefits you should expect from participating in this program.
The program aims to offer the following benefits to its selected beneficiaries;
- The program will have a hybrid option virtually and physically. The modules will be both tutor-led and self-study modules within a friendly e-learning platform. It will be an intensive program designed to have a group as well as one-on-one mentoring and coaching sessions within the 3 months period.
- An opportunity for 3 successful SMEs/Startups from the program to each win an N3m grant to support their business operations.
- A platform to connect innovative SMEs and Tech Startups with potential investors.
- Connection with Tech thought leaders and an opportunity to hear their success stories firsthand.
- Get the knowledge and skills needed to fast-track their business to the next growth phase.
- Participation in a Demo Day where these entrepreneurs get a chance to pitch their ideas to selected investors.
- Opportunity to be part of a Startup community/ecosystem and access the opportunities and network it offers.
Requirements for Keystone Startup Advantage Program
- Interested Startups and SMEs to be selected as beneficiaries of the program must be businesses that have gone past the ideation phase and are already at validation or have scaled past the validation phase.
- Startups or SMEs should be focused on the Creative, Fintech, Agro, Education, Health, and other potential growth sectors with technology-driven and innovative solutions/ideas that will attract the keen interest of investors (both locally and internationally).
How to Apply for Keystone Startup Advantage Program 2024
Interested and eligible candidates should submit their application online via the KSA program’s official application portal here. More details can be found here.
Application Deadline
The deadline to apply is as stated on the application portal.
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