Startups Nigeria Partners with UK-based Encipher Group to Launch SN2.0

Jan. 4, 2010 - PRLog -- Lagos, Nigeria – We are pleased to announce the official launch of the new Startups Nigeria platform (SN2.0), built on an open source software and developed by our official technology partner, Encipher Group (www.enciphergroup.co.uk), a UK-based software development and management company.

In April 2008, Startups Nigeria (www.startupsnigeria.com) was founded by Mr. Loy Okezie as a startups and technology news blog. The blog eventually became very popular, influential and highly respected within the Nigerian and African technology and social media space.

With this launch, Startups Nigeria has re-branded into a business & technology startups community with a new and official homepage found at www.startupsnigeria.org, as well as pages found on social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Afrigator, Digg, Sturvs, StumbleUpon, Technorati, MyBlogLog, NaijaPulse, FriendFeed, Kukurooku, Flickr, Google, YouTube, GistCaster and Muti, amongst others.

What is Startups Nigeria 2.0?

Startups Nigeria 2.0 is a youth-driven, online community for technology enthusiasts, internet start-ups, companies, entrepreneurs, investors and students, all pioneering innovations in Nigeria’s emerging start-up industry and social media space.

With the new Startups Nigeria platform, users can create their personal profile, add and promote their start-ups, share their start-up stories, photos, videos, follow other start-ups, find ideal start-up partners, find technology-related jobs, find entrepreneurs and investors and lots more.

According to Encipher’s Chief Technical Officer, Mr. Anibe Agamah,

"There has always been immense talent and skill in Nigeria when it comes to technology and the Internet. The major problem has been bringing these talents together in an organised way to create legitimate and profitable businesses. Hopefully, Startups Nigeria will help in facilitating this."

“At Startups Nigeria, we love technology”, says Mr. Loy Okezie, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Startups Nigeria. “We also love the way social media is changing the way people communicate. And since we are very passionate about start-ups, we love to showcase, engage and support them.”

In the future, Startups Nigeria hopes to become a technology and start-ups incubator and help fund financially viable start-ups from Nigeria and African entrepreneurs. The idea of the platform is to help build Nigeria’s emerging dot-com industry and contribute towards a knowledge-based economy in Nigeria by the year 2020.

About Startups Nigeria

Startups Nigeria is a social enterprise that helps promote business start-ups and the entrepreneurs behind them. Since April 2008, we’ve been actively involved with start-ups, developers, students, entrepreneurs and investors from all over the world.

We hope to become a technology and start-ups incubator in the future and help fund financially viable start-ups from Nigeria and African entrepreneurs. If you would like to collaborate or partner with us, kindly send us an email via partner@startupsnigeria.org

Contact:

Loy Okezie
Founder & CEO, Startups Nigeria

loy@startupsnigeria.org
www.startupsnigeria.org

About Encipher Group

Encipher Group is a growing technology consultancy with bases in the UK and Nigeria. They provide tailored technology solutions to help businesses and individuals achieve their goals.

Communication and commerce has gone Social, and Encipher has the expertise to ensure products and services are always available on the "cloud", regardless of platform or device. Simple technology solutions for a complicated market.

Contact:

Anibe Agamah
Co-founder & CTO, Encipher Group.

a.agamah@enciphergroup.co.uk
www.enciphergroup.co.uk