This October, OxFounders Global celebrates our second birthday! It's been an incredible journey since we held our very first event in Istanbul on 27 October 2023 . We've been to 10 countries , across 5 continents , meeting some of the world's brightest entrepreneurial talent building the companeis of the future. Across these two years, we've reviewed over 1,000 startup pitches , created more than 50,000 ecosystem connections at our events - involving investors from over 12

We can't quite believe it. It was an incredible honour to go LIVE, TWICE (!!) on national Nigerian TV ( ARISE News , close to 100M viewers worldwide !) to speak about our passion for university entrepreneurship as well as our ongoing project to reshape the innovation ecosystem in Nigeria, in collaboration with   Triple Helix Nigeria   and the   Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board . 🚀🇳🇬 We've been interviewed before but never live, so this was a bit of a nerve

This month, we were delighted to visit Brazil for the second time, hosting the second edition of our pitch event (back by popular demand!) at the Universidade de São Paulo's SciBiz Conference, as well as meeting with key stakeholders in the Brazilian startup ecosystem. The highlight of our event was our OxFounders Pitching Competition, which this year followed the conference's COP30 theme. USP's SciBiz conference, which brings together industry and academia with a special fo

We have some major news to announce: the launch of a major advisory project in collaboration with Triple Helix Nigeria and the Nigerian government's Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) , focusing on building a stronger university entrepreneurship ecosystem in the country and supercharging the journeys of student founders and researchers. This week, we were in Abuja to sign a landmark MoU with our two partners, laying out the timeline and structure of our import

After over 17,800km of travelling, we arrived at Innovation City Cape Town  for the grand finale of our Africa Tour: OxFounders x Cape...

The next stop in our Tour saw us in Kenya, for what was the most packed event of the three: 150 entrepreneurs and investors in-person,...

The first leg of our tour saw us at the centre of Nigeria's thriving tech ecosystem. On 10 November we hosted just over 80 entrepreneurs,...

Welcome back to our startup updates page! Every quarter, we send out a newsletter to all members of the community, with all of the...

We're thrilled to share that all of our podcast episidoes are now available through your favourite podcast providers. Catch all of our...

We're so excited to share the news of our 6th World Tour stop, as we held our event in São Paulo last week in collaboration with the USP...

Our India tour was the biggest series of events we've held yet. We held six events - 5 founder roundtables and 1 full-day startup summit...

We're thrilled to share the photos and news from the second stop in our Central Asia & India Tour, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. 🔥 In...

We're incredibly excited to bring you the write-up of our time in Uzbekistan, the fastest-growing entrepreneurship ecosystem in Central...

We are thrilled to announce that Roman Lavrentev, COO of Uzum - Uzbekistan's first and single unicorn - will be a star judge at our event...

🔥 DON’T MISS OUT 🚀 OxFounders Global comes to Tashkent for a thrilling showcase of the incredible talent the startup ecosystem has to...

We're incredibly keen to continue building our community of talented entrepreneurs in Türkiye, and are delighted to announce our first...

We're thrilled to reveal that Davron Parmonov, Managing Partner at Aloqa Ventures, will be our second jury member for our Tashkent event...

We're delighted to announce that Derin Keskin, investor and Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia at Domino Ventures, will be a...

We are delighted to announce that Mahankali Srinivas Rao (MSR) will be a star judge on our jury at our upcoming event in Bengaluru in...

We're thrilled with our first two events in Türkiye and Mexico. After weeks and months of planning, we are incredibly excited to announce...