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Highlights from our 2019 Year

Dear  ,As we round off this year and welcome a new one, I am delighted to share with you some of the highlights of FATE Foundation's Impact and work in 2019. 

Start. Grow. Scale

We reached

52,562

persons and provided direct pre-incubation, incubation, growth and accelerator support to

 578

aspiring and emerging Nigerian entrepreneurs.

49%

of our direct programme beneficiaries were 

women.Our support across

16

Nigerian cities also included young aspiring entrepreneurs from 

11

Nigerian Universities and Polytechnics.

269

businesses received direct growth support and we linked

160

of our entrepreneurs with providers of grants, debt and equity financing. 

Thought Leadership

We expanded our entrepreneurship ecosystem research work and shared findings from our 2019 research report on "From StartUps to ScaleUps" at our Annual Policy Dialogue Series on Entrepreneurship. The full report will be available on our website by the end of January 2020.

Volunteers

Our work would not have been possible without the

294

volunteers from

11

states who gave

2,147

volunteers hours to teach, mentor, advise and contribute content for our msmehub.org platform.