TechCircle is excited to announce the fifth edition of Pitch2Win, Nigeria’s leading startup pitch competition designed to spotlight and support promising early-stage startups. Scheduled for July 30, 2025, this year’s event promises to be the most impactful yet.
Fifteen (15) startups will pitch live before a panel of 30+ global investors and leading local VCs for a chance to win a $10,000 equity-free grant and gain visibility among decision-makers actively seeking to invest in Nigeria’s tech ecosystem.
Pitch2Win has a proven track record of launching startups into growth. Just last year, Regxta, the winner of Pitch2Win 4, went on to raise almost $400,000 in funding within one week of the event. Other alumni like Pharmarun, Tyms, and ZeroComplex AI also secured major funding and strategic partnerships after their participation in the third edition in 2023.
“Pitch2Win is more than just a pitch competition. It’s a launchpad,” said Oo Nwoye, Founder of Techcircle. “We’re proud to connect high-potential startups with the capital, visibility, and expert feedback they need to scale.”
This year’s judging and investor panel includes representatives from Japan and top-tier Nigerian VC firms. Last edition welcomed notable investors like Hiro Mashita of SGverse/SGgrow, Yuzuru Honda of FreakOut Holdings, and representatives from IVS (Japan’s largest crypto and startup conference).Since inception, Pitch2Win has helped spotlight early-stage startups that have gone on to raise over $50 million collectively. Past participants include Reliance Health, LifeBank, Edves, Curacel, Lendsqr, and Figorr (formerly Gricd).
Who Should Apply?
We are looking for:
- Visionary Nigerian based innovators and founders
- Early-stage tech-enabled startups
- Teams available to attend the physical event in Lagos on the 30th of July, 2025.
Apply now:
- Applications are open from May 26 to June 15, 2025
- techcircle.ng/pitch2win-5
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About Techcircle
Techcircle provides advisory, consultancy, and support services to African Startup Founders, Corporations, and Government Agencies. We connect foreign investors, governments and corporate organizations to the home-based African market through ecosystem-wide events, programs and tours.
Our services are aligned with adding value to the Nigerian tech ecosystem via designing and executing various activities and events for the community. To do this, we have provided incubation consultancy services and executed ecosystem programs for the UK Nigeria Tech Hub, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, ARM Labs, Y-Combinator, NOGTECH, Startups Nigeria, etc.
About SG Grow
SGGrow is a premier accelerator & investment firm based in Singapore that believes in contributing to Singapore and global societies through investment and acceleration activities for startups.
About SgVerse
SGverse is a premier Singapore-based web 3.0 incubator and accelerator at start-up scenes which also invests in promising web 3.0 projects
About Freakout Holdings
FreakOut, founded by Yuzuru Honda in October 2010 is Asia’s first and Japan’s largest demand-side platform (DSP) for real-time bidding (RTB) on digital advertising, and growing as a marketing technology company in the Asian market. Yuzuru manages the company’s fast-growing business in 10 countries around the world.
