more digital transformation is essential to Nigeria's economic evolution there's already a lot of Promise in the burgeoning tech ecosystem between 2015 and 2022 Tech startups here secured over 2 billion US dollars in funding the most in Africa founded in 2016 flock to weave is already one of Africa's top three Financial technology Platforms in tackling the challenges of online payment in Nigeria the startups growth has exceeded the dreams of these three founders flutterweave has become a multi-billion dollar company our focus is really just solving the customer's problem and the opportunity to solve that problem exists and
there's a huge gap in Lagos in Nigeria and that's what we're solving uh one at a time across corporate across smes across individuals this young developer is inspired by companies like floater wave opay and jumia these digital Giants of Africa were all created in Lagos Paul has given up his science studies to design apps full time he works with clients in Nigeria and the US the I received the news that my work was going to business of our business school and I was like really excited to get roses and yes it's it's a feeling that
you cannot just you know people seeing your work people like using your work day-to-day is one of the things that keeps me going in this career part the Africa NXT Forum brings together thousands of developers and innovators fewer turned out this year because of Nigeria's naira and Patrol crisis but the annual Lagos State is still a key gathering for those interested in pan-african technological development and creativity I don't think that there's anywhere else like in the world that's quite as Dynamic with such a high concentration of like people black people African people trying to like
do good things trying to launch businesses the sector has potential but investment and infrastructure for Nigeria's digital Revolution still falls short here yet legal still ranks amongst the world's top 100 whole cities for Tech startups
