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 120 firms and...

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-wracking...

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 focus on startups,...