MTN Nigeria team joined B4B Partners in supporting startup growth and fostering business sustainability across Nigeria’s innovation ecosystem.
Across Nigeria’s fast-evolving startup ecosystem, early-stage founders are constantly innovating, building products that touch everything from healthcare and agriculture to payments and workplace culture. But while vision and creativity abound, many startups struggle with a universal challenge: turning products into sustainable revenue.
This challenge is one ecosystem builders like B4B Partners, with support from MTN Nigeria and Oracle, are helping to solve. Through Revenue Xcelerator, a five-day program hosted in Lagos, founders are equipped with practical tools to build, test, and strengthen the five moving parts of their “revenue engine”: Product, Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, and Revenue Operations.
“At B4B, we see revenue generation skills as the heartbeat of startup survival. Our goal with Revenue Xcelerator is to ensure founders don’t just build products, but build businesses that can thrive and scale regardles of market conditions,” said Napa Onwusah, Managing Director at B4B Partners and Convener of Revenue Xcelerator.
The September 2025 cohort brought together 16 startups spanning fintech, healthtech, SaaS, agritech, and more, each representing the diversity and resilience of Africa’s innovation landscape.
Some of the participating startups at this cohort include:
- Cloudsania
Cloudsania is a DevOps automation platform that helps teams deploy, configure, and manage cloud infrastructure across multiple cloud providers from one unified dashboard. With templates, connectors, and built-in security, they enable teams to launch faster while cutting costs and complexity.
Attendee: Olumide Okewale (Founder)
- CrediChek
CrediChek is tackling one of Africa’s most pressing financial challenges: creditworthiness. Their platform verifies consumer creditworthiness by turning unstructured financial data into actionable insights, helping lenders reduce defaults and fraud. With APIs and a user-friendly web app, they’re making credit data accessible and reliable.
Attendees: Uche Njoku (Enterprise Sales Manager) and Amarachi Jane Ezetah (Marketing Content Specialist)
- DoktorConnect
DoktorConnect is shifting healthcare from reactive sick care to proactive wellness. By combining IoT health devices, preventive checkups, and remote monitoring, their technology provides personalized care designed to promote healthier living, boost vitality, and extend longevity.
Attendees: Emmanuel Adeusi (Country Manager), Omobolaji Ayeni (Business Development & Sales Manager)
- Fusion Intelligence
Fusion Intelligence is a software company focused on building industry-specific SaaS platforms that solve deep operational challenges. The company currently serves clients in the film, restaurant, co-working, logistics, and gym sectors.
Founded in 2022, Fusion Intelligence has positioned itself as a major pioneer in the cinema industry, with the ERP Reach, powering over 55% of cinemas in West Africa. Fusion is gradually becoming the quiet force behind how industries digitize and scale.
Attendees: Kolade Adewoye (CEO), Kikelomo Adetiloye (Lead, Partnerships)
- GetEquity
GetEquity is a fintech platform that gives retail and institutional investors access to opportunities like real estate, mutual funds, commercial papers, and private equity. It features a secondary market where users can trade private investments, providing liquidity for typically illiquid assets. Beyond investing, they enable businesses to raise capital and embed investment features through APIs.
Attendee: Temitope Ekundayo (Co-Founder, Head of Growth)
- Heabron Technologies
Heabron is on a mission to transform Nigeria’s agriculture value chain. By providing asset-based financing, warehousing, and direct commodity trading, they empower farmers with access to credit, markets, and better prices. Their approach not only boosts productivity but also fosters data-driven, regenerative farming practices.
Attendee: Dennis Okpe (Lead Business Strategist)
- ProDevs Outsourcing Inc.
ProDevs is bridging the global tech talent gap by connecting African developers, designers, and engineers with companies worldwide. With their AI-powered hiring platforms, they simplify how startups and enterprises access vetted talents, offering flexibility through outsourcing, direct hire, or project-based models to fit diverse needs.
Attendees: William Nwogbo (Founder & CEO), Faith Dike N (Product & Operations Manager)
- Spotflow
Spotflow is a payments infrastructure company that enables global merchants to accept payments in local African currencies through a single integration. They supports multiple payment methods including cards, bank transfers, mobile money, and USSD, giving customers flexible options. With subscription management and cross-border disbursements, Spotflow is helping businesses truly go borderless.
Attendee: Olanrewaju Olokunde (CEO)
- Storipod
Storipod is giving writers a new stage. Their microblogging platform makes storytelling as simple and social as posting on social media, while creating pathways for creators to monetize their work. With its unique “Stori” format, Storipod is amplifying diverse voices and turning everyday writing into powerful connections.
Attendee: James Nelson Okuzor (Founder & Chief Product Officer)
- SureGifts
SureGifts is a Nigerian online gifting platform that provides digital and physical gift cards from top brands across retail, dining, entertainment, and more. Customers can easily buy, personalize, and send gifts online for personal or corporate use. Their solutions extend to employee rewards and customer loyalty programs, helping businesses create meaningful connections.
Attendees: Rebecca Gbemudia (Business Development & Partnership), Williams Endurance (Head of Business Development)
- YellowLyfe
For YellowLyfe, culture and engagement sit at the heart of business performance. They design experiences that bring teams closer through events, team bonding, games, and corporate gifting. Their aim is to make workplaces more vibrant, connected, and human.
Attendee: Seyi Olaniyan (CEO)
Building Ecosystem Capacity
Following the program, startups move into a three-week coaching sprint with continued support from organizations including MTN Nigeria, CloudPlexo, Engage.so, Zoho for Startups, Paystack and PressOne Africa.
Together, these partners are extending runway for founders not just with tools and credits, but with the digital infrastructure needed to design predictable revenue systems that outlast fundraising cycles.
“Too many brilliant founders burn out chasing capital before building revenue systems,” said Stacy Ketiku, Head of Programs at B4B Partners “We want to change that story because if you can build predictable revenue, you can build staying power.”
Each cohort of Revenue Xcelerator accepts not more than 25 companies. If you’ll love to participate in the next cohort, you can get early access by registering today.
As B4B Partners continues to expand its footprint, its work reinforces a key message for Africa’s startup ecosystem: the companies that will define the next decade are not just those that raise big rounds, but those that master the craft of turning innovation into revenue.
