Inviting You to the Startup Grind, Lagos

Startup Grind, the popular event series for entrepreneurs and investors announces the opening of its Lagos chapter and its inaugural event to be held March 9th, 2014 at the Iroko’s headquarters in Anthony Village. The featured guest will be a panel of founders of Irokotv, Africa’s largest internet streaming company supporting Nollywood. Tickets are on sale online now for $10/N1500, or at the door.

 More information is available on the event webpage. www.startupgrind.com/lagos

Jason Njoku, co-founder and CEO of iROKOtv has been credited with igniting Nigeria's internet and tech start-up scene, as well as revolutionizing Nollywood's global distribution system. In 2012 he was touted by Forbes Africa as one of Africa's Top Young Millionaires to watch and has also been named as one of London's Top Black Men of Power in Black Enterprise Magazine.

In 2013, he was named by New African Magazine as one of Africa's Top 50 African Trailblazers and was also crowned the CNBC Young Business Entrepreneur of the Year for West Africa. He has also been featured in CNN, BBC, Financial Times, France 24, Le Monde, Fast Company, Fin Week, Forbes and other notable international news outlets around the world.

Bastian Gotter graduated from the University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology (UMIST) in 2006 with a degree in Management Sciences. Post-University, Bastian worked as a Middle Distillates Trader at BP for almost six years. 

Gotter co-founded and seed-funded iROKOtv from the company's launch in 2010 and has overseen the company securing $21Mn in VC funding from international investors, making iROKOtv one of Africa's most well-funded internet companies. In 2011, he left his job at BP to concentrate fully on building iROKOtv. As COO, he heads up the company's technical teams around the globe from his base in Lagos. In 2013, he launched Spark with his business partners Jason Njoku and Mary Remmy-Njoku to invest in and grow Lagos-based internet start-ups.

The Lagos event is sponsored by Google for Entrepreneurs, Iroking, with support from Fora, EasyTaxi.

Get your ticket on www.startupgrind.com/lagos

About Startup Grind 

Startup Grind was founded in Silicon Valley in 2010 by Derek Andersen, and has since grown to over 75 chapters worldwide. Each chapter hosts a monthly "fireside chat" interview with a successful entrepreneur or investor. Past interviewees include Harvard Business School professor and bestselling author of The Innovator's Dilemma Clayton Christensen, named by Thinkers50 as the World's Most Influential Management Thinker, Dave McClure, founder of business incubator 500 Startups, and Jessica Livingston, founding partner of the seed stage venture firm Y Combinator. More information at www.startupgrind.com.

About Startup Grind Lagos 

The Lagos chapter of Startup Grind is co-directed by Tayo Brahm-Olorunoje, Adedeji Alebiosu and was created in January 2014. The objective of the Startup Grind Lagos is to raise awareness of startups and entrepreneurship in the region by interviewing successful entrepreneurs and investors from Lagos as well as from other areas of the world.