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