What do you get when ambition and youthful exuberance meet challenges with actionable options? Not ready until commencement to make a mark on the planet, pupil innovators are growing a myriad of options to deal with real-world challenges. A few of these pupil startups deal with accelerating emergency medical response, and others on digitising the voting course of.
The scholar-led startups profiled under deal with issues throughout many sectors, exhibiting how know-how continues to deal with systemic challenges Nigerians grapple with day by day.
Precision Well being: Correct prognosis, made simple
(Healthtech, College of Lagos)
Eniola Alex, a pupil of the School of Medication, College of Lagos, is behind Precision Well being, a platform that seeks to mix AI know-how with medical experience to assist healthcare suppliers triage sooner. The product is impressed by his private expertise. Alex spent eight months within the ICU battling Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS), a uncommon dysfunction the place the immune system assaults nerves, inflicting weak point or paralysis. His gruelling four-year restoration uncovered the pitfalls of trial-and-error healthcare, inspiring a mission to remove the guesswork from drugs.
At present, Precision Well being is providing its triage instruments to Nigeria’s skincare market, permitting customers to attach with a slew of dermatologists who seek the advice of and suggest remedy just about. The platform merges dermatologists’ experience with AI instruments analysing pores and skin sort, local weather, and person information to ship personalised, medical-grade suggestions.
Precision Well being trains its AI mannequin with an archive of over 1500 information sources of African pores and skin sort. Following its launch in January 2025, the platform has since garnered as much as 300 customers on its waitlist and partnered with Lagos-based Aesthetic Medical Central. Precision Well being earns cash by session commissions and personalised product kits.
Carrely: Studying made enjoyable
(Edtech, College of Lagos)
Carrely, a social, gamified, and AI-powered studying platform, is the brainchild of Lawrence Eniola, a 200-level laptop engineering pupil. Carrely was born out of a frustration with conventional on-line studying platforms, which he discovered extra like a needed inconvenience fairly than fulfilling.
Drawing inspiration from extra participating studying platforms like Duolingo, Eniola developed Carrely to make studying extra enjoyable than a chore. With Carrely, college students can interact in discussions, problem one another in quizzes, and earn badges as they progress by ranges. This platform incorporates AI fashions to offer explanations and good suggestions that assist customers be taught at their very own tempo, and cloud storage providers for ease in sharing PDFs.
Carrely intends to be the go-to platform for social studying, serving to college students retain information higher by tying studying to extra social sorts of interplay. Though Carrely continues to be in its pre-launch stage, the platform is looking out for early-stage traders as it’s presently bootstrapped, in line with the founder. It intends to generate income by a mixture of in-app focused promoting and premium subscriptions that unlock further options for customers.
Easy Poll: Elections, digitised
(Companies, College of Ibadan)
College pupil Prince Ogbonna came across the concept for an e-voting platform after taking part in a campus election and collating paper ballots manually. This election software program, accessible as an online app, contains options that allow people to create elections and permit voters to forged their ballots. Ideated in 2023 and launched in September of the next 12 months, Easy Poll has partnered with 12 associations, together with the Cinema Exhibitors Affiliation of Nigeria (CEAN) and, extra not too long ago, Silverbird Group for his or her upcoming magnificence pageant – Most Stunning Woman in Nigeria (MBGN).
In keeping with the founder, Easy Poll prioritises velocity, entry to a dashboard no matter server points, distinctive voters’ emails and passwords, and safety protocols to keep away from disenfranchisement. It additionally features a characteristic that permits directors to ship out accreditation types to the citizens. This platform generates income by charging organisations per variety of voters onboarded (for political elections) and amassing a 20% fee from paid contest voting.
In contrast to different e-voting platforms, Easy Poll just isn’t restricted to political elections and permits organisations to arrange elections themselves.
Valor: AI that detects mango issues
(Agritech, Caleb College)
Three final-year laptop science college students, Chibuzor Nwachukwu, Concord Abayomi, and Freda Efod, developed this platform that mixes AI, laptop imaginative and prescient, and studying fashions to detect mango ripeness and verify for illnesses, together with anthracnose and stem rot.
With love for mangoes, agriculture, and a disdain for meals waste, these three are on a path to make use of tech to resolve an agricultural drawback of crop wastage and loss. The platform permits customers to scan the picture of the fruit or choose one from their gallery, and use the accessible AI mannequin to verify predictions.
Though nonetheless in its improvement stage, these founders intend to make Valor into an online and app-based platform, which could be accessed on-line for farmers in environments with poor technological infrastructure. The platform has seen no traders; nonetheless, they declare to obtain great assist from their departmental stakeholders. They intend to make entry to the service subscription-based, which can type the vast majority of their income. They’ve used over 1,700 mango datasets in coaching their AI mannequin to make correct predictions.
Quata: Your AI DevOps teammate
(Companies, College of Lagos)
Quata is an AI engineer who helps product groups arrange their software program supply pipelines and preserve their manufacturing environments safe. It’s an AI teammate that takes the actions of a mid-level cloud/DevOps engineer, so different workforce members can deal with their core duties.
Developed by Haruna Faruk (Physics, 200 stage) and David Mark (Pc Science, 400 stage), Quata intends to resolve the issue of the technical and time-consuming nature of managing cloud computing infrastructure, which incorporates the tough strategy of deploying software program from Africa. The founders famous that there wasn’t a contemporary or dependable resolution to this drawback. Quata AI integrates with Amazon Internet Companies (AWS) and Google Cloud to offer laptop sources that monitor logs for evaluation. Quata is about to publicly launch by June 2025.
CourseQR: Shortcut to smarter finding out
(Edtech, College of Lagos)
This startup was developed in 2023 by Fashoranti Olanrewaju, a pupil of pharmacy, who’d all the time discovered the method of studying and accessing course supplies in Nigerian universities outdated. Olarenwaju famous that examine supplies typically are available a disorganised method from the lecturers, resulting in frustration and an ineffective studying expertise.
In his ardour to construct working problem-solving merchandise, he turned cumbersome slides and the tedious finding out course of into CourseQR, a studying platform the place college students can entry their course supplies and examine aids, together with notes, quizzes, and flashcards, to check successfully.
The net app is constructed on AI and regionally hosted LLMs. CourseQR presently operates within the School of Medication, College of Lagos, with over 200 college students onboarded, and a imaginative and prescient of increasing to different universities. This service is presently free.
UniBeta: Your campus in your pocket
(Edtech, College of Lagos)
“College isn’t nearly teachers, it’s about progress in each side of life.” These have been the ideas on Adeola Oluwadamilare’s thoughts when he and Onigbanjo Oluwaseun co-founded UniBeta in 2023, a brilliant app that college students can use for sophistication scheduling and Cumulative Grade Level Common (CGPA) monitoring, connecting tutors, and profession ideas, with a market for campus distributors.
UniBeta gives assist for profession improvement, networking, and monetary alternatives whereas fostering a way of neighborhood. The cellular utility accommodates options together with class scheduling and challenge creation, project tracker, market for pupil distributors, tutorial movies and supplies, discovering tutors, and CGPA calculator. This cellular utility integrates APIs to attain its options, together with ChatGPT4 and fee gateways.
The platform prices weekly and month-to-month subscription charges for as little as ₦0 to as excessive as ₦3,000. It presently has nearly 700 subscribers, 230 distributors within the market, and over 4000 pupil members.
Waraja: Africa to the world
(E-commerce, College of Lagos)
Waraja began as a pupil e-commerce platform that connects pupil entrepreneurs on campus to their prospects. This enterprise stemmed from pupil entrepreneur Tioluwani Bamigboye’s incapability to attach along with her patrons. In time, Waraja has expanded past campus to turn out to be a platform particularly for ‘Made in Africa’ merchandise. Its purpose is to export these regionally made merchandise globally.
In keeping with the founder, Waraja exists to develop belief in African-made merchandise, shunning rumours of the subpar high quality of regionally made merchandise. As it’s in its MVP stage of improvement, it has had as much as 300 interactions with distributors and prospects alike. In growing a enterprise mannequin to match rivals like Jumia and Konga, Waraja intends to solely chase down traders when it’s MVP-ready. Waraja additionally plans to launch a logistics chain with electricity-powered bikes to scale back carbon emissions.
ParaLearn: All-in-one college administration, simplified
(Companies, College of Ibadan)
ParaLearn is a cloud-based AI college administration software program that allows educational directors to handle their faculties from the consolation of their good units. Administration actions vary from admissions, educating and studying, assessments, outcomes computation, and evaluation of scholars and workers info. It’s an end-to-end resolution for varsity directors to handle their faculties.
The inspiration for this platform stemmed from the dreadful expertise of studying the improper course supplies for an examination by the founder, Evander Ikechuckwu. Established in 2019 by Evander Ikechukwu, ParaLearn has three core options: a studying administration system, a outcome administration system, and a pupil and workers info system. These options are mixed to make college directors run their faculties successfully and enhance the training expertise of scholars.
ParaLearn integrates AI in its operations by coaching LLM with the African training curricula. Which means that given the proper immediate, the AI will tailor content material to WAEC, NECO, or JAMB curricula. Drawing inspiration from Google Docs’ offline enhancing characteristic, ParaLearn permits customers to handle actions on their dashboard after which synchronize the modifications after they hook up with an web supply.
In keeping with the founder, ParaLearn, like its worldwide competitor, Blackboard, is constructed for Africans as Africans and foreigners don’t work together with know-how the identical method. The platform prices establishments based mostly on the variety of college students they onboard.
MEDWAKA: Fast emergency response, made accessible
(Healthtech, College of Ibadan)
MEDWAKA gives a quick, dependable, and accessible emergency medical response system to considerably scale back mortality charges in medical emergencies. It was developed by Relaxation Essence in 2021.
The net platform gives real-time steerage on first assist and emergency response, making certain well timed and efficient care. MEDWAKA is tackling the ache of sluggish/no response instances throughout medical emergencies and is offering individuals with an answer they’ll depend on. Leveraging AI, this platform is built-in with GPS monitoring, making certain seamless coordination and data sharing between sufferers, first care responders, and hospitals. A cellular utility continues to be in improvement.
It has seen 30 customers since its inception and has utilized for numerous grant-awarding competitions, together with The Fishbowl Problem. It generates income by taking commissions from offered medical providers, like ambulance providers, and is presently pursuing partnerships with Well being Upkeep Organisations (HMOs) to unburden customers from the fee of providers.
Haze Couture: AI-driven 3D physique scans for smarter buying
(Companies, Covenant College)
Based by Joshua Ajonye, a Pc Science pupil, Haze is leveraging the facility of AI to transform 3D photos of customers into 3D fashions of them. These generated 3D fashions allow the extraction of their physique measurements to be utilized when shopping for clothes gadgets on-line.
Haze addresses one of many largest ache factors in on-line clothes buying – buying outfits that don’t match. Haze’s know-how permits entry to person measurements, which solves the issue of sizing when clothes buying on-line. It additionally permits customers to see precisely how the outfit will look on them, and the way it enhances their pores and skin color and physique sort. Haze has began fully bootstrapped and turned down angel traders to make sure long-term worth. In keeping with the founder, the purpose of Haze is to hitch the ranks of Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft as a Fortune 500 firm.
Naijournal: Telling Nigeria’s story, one video at a time
(Media, College of Lagos)
Naijournal combines storytelling with know-how to correctly inform Nigerian tales, particularly about their previous, by fastidiously crafted movies.
The motivation for this startup got here with the realisation that storytelling shapes notion, and Naijournal might undo the unfavourable perceptions that the mainstream media has forged on Nigeria. Founders Ekpagha Runor and Abiola Feranmi need Naijournal to step up as tradition custodians – a platform devoted to preserving our historical past and amplifying our achievements. Their main platform of operation is YouTube.
XRNet: Bringing readability to e-commerce with AR, VR & 3D
(Companies, College of Lagos)
Based in 2022, XRNet was developed to construct confidence within the e-commerce ecosystem. After witnessing a number of ‘what I ordered vs what I obtained’ circumstances, David Mustapha based XRNet to resolve that drawback by offering a real-time view of merchandise.
The platform permits companies to create a storefront the place prospects can work together with their merchandise utilizing Augmented Actuality (AR), Digital Actuality (VR), and 3D know-how, earlier than making a purchase order. XRNet noticed over 50 sign-ups through the first month of its launch.
The platform presently has over 55 SMEs utilising its immersive AR/3D on-line net and cellular shops, and generates income by commissions on purchases and subscription plans from storefront customers. This challenge has obtained funding from incubators, together with Innovation to Market and the Tony Elumelu Basis, garnering as much as ₦6.5 million ($42,245) in funding.
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