On May 1, 2019, Nigerian publisher and serial entrepreneur, Chidi Nwaogu, posted on LinkedIn that his application to break the Guinness World Record for the ‘longest credit on a book’ has been accepted, and it was ‘time to break this fresh world title’. According to the screenshot of an acceptance email sent to him by the Guinness World Record, his application, with reference number 180410165252lcoa had ‘been accepted’.
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The ‘Longest credit on a book’ is a world title given to any single book published with an ISBN, with a ‘Credits’ section that has at least 10,001 names of real people printed on it, who gave their consent to be credited. To achieve this, Nwaogu went on to LinkedIn to get the consent of at least 10,001 people to have their names printed on his book.
His post read: “Publiseer will be publishing a book written by me, and this book will hold the world title for the “Longest credit on a book”. It’s a fresh record, and we simply need at least 10,001 names to break this record. If you’d like to be part of this record-breaking event, simply comment on this post “Count me in” and your name (as it appears on LinkedIn) along with at least 10,000 others who comment on this post, will be published on the book as the credits. Let’s do this together, LinkedIn!“
Within 4 days, over 14,000 people had commented “Count me in”, thus giving the young Nigerian the consent to print their names on his Guinness World Record-breaking book titled “10 Laws of Finding the Right Co-founder”. With 1,516,662 views on his LinkedIn post, Nwaogu was able to amass 5,887 likes, 14,175 comments and 238 shares, as at Sunday, May 5, 2019, 8:18 AM GMT, and these figures are rapidly increasing as I write.
With a huge social following of 34,189 on LinkedIn, Nwaogu, has successfully met the conditions to the break the Guinness World Record for the longest credit on a book. This is a fresh Guinness World Record that hasn’t been broken before, so Nwaogu must be really adventurous to have ventured into this. Nwaogu’s book with at least 14,000 credits will hold the Guinness World Record for the ‘Longest Credit on a Book’, but the question on everyone’s mind is “For how long will he hold this record before someone surpasses his record?”
Nwaogu isn’t the only Nigerian to have broken a Guinness World Record. Wizkid, DJ Obi, Debbie Odumewu, and Kafayat Shafau-Ameh, are some of the Nigerians who have gone ahead in the past to break a world record.
Founders of Nigeria’s digital content distribution platform Publiseer, Chidi Nwaogu and Chika Nwaogu, have been invited y Mastercard Foundation to participate in its Young Africa Works Summit, taking place in Cape Town, South Africa on October 17 and 18, 2019.
Chidi Nwaogu, Publiseer’s CEO, took to his twitter page to announce this. This is following his selection as a Westerwelle Fellow and a Yunus&Youth Global Fellow, and his recent shortlist in the Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 List. This news also comes with the founders’ invitation to the 2nd Midem African Forum, in association with Trace, taking place in Lagos, Nigeria, on April 15.
The Young Africa Works Summit is expected to be an inspiring event that will be led by young innovators and entrepreneurs who are driven to solve the issue of our time, which is youth unemployment in Africa. These innovators and entrepreneurs are those expected to activate solutions to create dignified and fulfilling work for 30 million young people, especially young women, in Africa by 2030.
The global community of stakeholders that will be participating at the summit will include African heads of state, business leaders, partner organizations, and a contingent of African youth from across the continent, to make this ambitious goal a reality.
Publiseer is a digital publisher that helps independent African writers and musicians, especially those from low-income communities and facilities, to distribute, protect, and monetize their digital contents across over 400 partner stores in 100 countries, with just a single click, and at no charge.
Nigeria's digital publishing platform, Publiseer, selected to pitch at Startup Turkey Top 100 Demo Day
Nigeria's digital publishing platform, Publiseer, has been selected to pitch at Startup Turkey Top 100 Demo Day. In an email from Elif Coskunkan, the company was made aware of its selection to Startup 100. Publiseer was selected as the top 100 from 120,000 startup applications from 150 countries. Only 1% of the startups that applied were selected to join the Startup Turkey full program to take place on the 26th to 29th of April in Istanbul, Turkey, which includes pitching on the main stage. This is coming just a week after Publiseer emerged the winner at the Startup World Cup Nigeria Regional Competition, thus securing a place at the grand finale in Silicon Valley.
"It's great seeing African startups eing recognized on a global scale, and ranking in the top 1% of startup applications. I'm happy that we're one of those African startups, and we'll work even harder to move higher in the ranks,"
says Chidi Nwaogu, who recently was shortlisted for the Yunus&Youth Global Fellowship Program for Social Entrepreneurs 2019, and was selected to be one of the 25 Young Founders for the Spring 2019 Westerwelle Young Founders Programme. As a Westerwelle Fellow, Nwaogu will be attending the Young Founders Conference from 2nd to 6th of April 2019.
'Startup 100' companies will join online webinars, mentorship, a Boat Tour in Istanbul and plus they will get high-level exposure with startup booth and quickfire pitch on stage on the 29th. Publiseer is a digital publisher that helps African writers and musicians from low-income communities to distribute and monetize their creative works across over 400 digital stores in 100 countries, with just a single click and at no charge. Publiseer was described by Konbini, as
"one of the largest digital publishers in Africa" and identified by IFC as one of the startups "that could speed up innovation in Africa."
Startup World Cup Nigeria Regional Competition was held on Saturday 9th of February at Civic Hive in Lagos, and digital publishing platform, Publiseer, emerged the regional champion, beating nine other startups for the title.
Publiseer will join other regional winners from various countries, including Mauritius, South Africa, and Kenya, at the Grand Finale, which will be held in Silicon Valley by San-Francisco based venture capital firm, Fenox VC, with a $1 million dollar investment prize. Amongst the 10 startups that pitched at the Nigeria regional final was Natterbase, Edupoint, WellNewMe, Sabi.ai, Spleet, Afara Partners and FarmFunded.
The winner of the Nigeria Regional Competition was determined by a panel of judges that included Olusola Amusan, Founder at Coven Works, Emmanuel Adegboye, Entrepreneurship Center Manager at Andela, Brian Odhiambo, Associate Director at Novastar Ventures, and Dayo Koleowo, Principal Investment Officer at Microtraction.
The South African and Mauritian finals were held in September and November respectively, while the Kenyan final will be held in March. The regional winners, including Publiseer, will represent their respective countries at Startup World Cup Grand Finale, which is set to take place on the 17th of May in San Francisco, USA.
The winner was determined from the size of market opportunity if the product solves the problem for their target customer, traction, clear revenue model, strong distribution plan, team, and capital efficiency. Other startups that participated at the regional competition were Natterbase, EduPoint, WellNewMe, Sabi, SPLEET, Loystar, Social Lender, Afara Partners, and FarmFunded.
"We are humbled to emerge the winner of the Regional competition, and we are excited to represent Nigeria at the grand finale in May. Every startup that competed are amazing and are making great impacts and giant strides in their various fields, and that's why we're humbled to come on top as the winner,"
says Chidi Nwaogu, Co-founder and CEO of Publiseer, who was recently shortlisted for the Yunus&Youth Global Fellowship Program for Social Entrepreneurs Class of 2019.
Publiseer is a digital publisher that helps African writers and musicians from low-income communities to distribute and monetize their creative works across over 400 digital stores in 100 countries, with just a single click, and at no charge. Publiseer became profitable after eight months from inception.
The digital publisher has received so many awards and recognitions, including becoming the first and only African publisher to join the International Publishing Distribution Association in Madrid, getting nominated for the 4th AppsAfrica Innovation Awards, receiving 'The Most Needed in the Region' award by African Entrepreneurship Award, emerging a finalist at a Harvard Business School New Venture Competition, and participating in the MIT Solve Global Challenges.
Publiseer was listed in Modern Ghana's "List Of 10 African Innovations For January 2019". Publiseer has been accepted in several accelerators and incubators, such as Microsoft's Accelerate Labs, University of Cape Town's Venture Incubation Programme and Singularity University's Global Startup Program.
The digital publisher has been extensively covered by hundreds of media houses around the world for its exceptional achievements in the world of digital publishing.
Founders of Nigeria's digital publishing company, Publiseer, Chidi Nwaogu and Chika Nwaogu, will be speaking at the International Publishers Association (IPA) Seminar in Nairobi. themed "Africa's Rising: Realising Africa's Potential as a Global Publishing Leader in the 21st Century". Together with the Kenyan Publishers Association (KPA), IPA will be holding the seminar on the 14th and 15th June 2019, which will bring together publishers, educators, government officials, readers and writers under one roof to discuss the challenges and opportunities in the publishing industry.
"This seminar will bring together publishers, educators, government officials, readers and writers under one roof to discuss the challenges and opportunities in the publishing industry. Please find attached an invitation letter signed by the Presidents of IPA and KPA. I do hope you will join us and share your insights with us," says Bodour Al Qasimi, the Incoming Vice President of the International Publishers Association.
This seminar comes after a successful seminar in Lagos in May 2018. which focused on the role of literary culture, and the challenges facing the book publishing industry in African countries. The International Publishers Association aims to continue to present this kind of seminars across Africa, and have chosen Nairobi as its next host city. The seminar will be taking place at the Mövenpick Hotel in Nairobi, and the founders of Publiseer will be speaking at the 4th-panel discussion "Digital Transformation and Disruption in African Publishing, which will be taking place on the first day of the seminar.
The seminar will deliver critical insights on global publishing industry issues and their impact on the region. Proposed areas of discussion will include how to strengthen educational publishing in Africa; the role of technology in overcoming illiteracy; and how to bring the voice of African writers, publishers and content creators to the world. The event will include representatives from a wide geographical reach and the audience will include both regional and international publishers, editors and agents.
Publiseer is a digital publisher that helps African writers and musicians from low-income communities to distribute and monetize their creative works across over 400 digital stores in 100 countries, with just a single click and at no charge. Publiseer became profitable after eight months from inception, and has been described by Konbini as "one of the largest digital publishers in Africa" and by IFC as one of the startups "that could speed up innovation in Africa."
The digital publisher has received so many awards and recognitions, including becoming the first and only African publisher to join the International Publishing Distribution Association in Madrid, getting nominated for the 4th AppsAfrica Innovation Awards, receiving 'The Most Needed in the Region' award by African Entrepreneurship Award, emerging a finalist at a Harvard Business School New Venture Competition, and participating in the MIT Solve Global Challenges.
Publiseer has been accepted in several accelerators and incubators, such as Microsoft's Accelerate Labs and University of Cape Town's Venture Incubation Programme. The digital publisher has been extensively covered by hundreds of media houses around the world for its exceptional achievements in the world of digital publishing.
Nigeria's digital content distribution company, Publiseer, has been selected to participate in the Startup World Cup, Nigeria Regional Competition. All ten startups selected to pitch will be competing to secure a slot at the Grand Finale in San Francisco, United States. The regional competition will take place on the 9th of February, 2019, at the Civic Hive at Yaba, Lagos. All ten startups will mount the SWC stage to share with the world the problem they are solving.
Other startups selected to compete at the regional competition are Natterbase, EduPoint, WellNewMe, Sabi, SPLEET, Loystar, Social Lender, Afara Partners, and FarmFunded. The competition will be one single round. Each startup will have five minutes to pitch and another five minutes to answer from the judges. During the pitch, the startup founders will talk about their company in simple, clear terms, their market opportunity, traction, and team.
"We are excited to be part of the ten startups pitching at the regional competition, and that's a validation to the good work we're doing at Publiseer. All startups pitching at the competition are doing amazing things in their various fields, and we are excited to be pitching on the SWC stage," says Chidi Nwaogu, who recently emerged the first place winner of the OD Impact Challenge 2019, and was also shortlisted for the Westerwelle Young Founders Spring 2019 Programme.
The judges will look out for the size of market opportunity if the product solves the problem for their target customer, traction, clear revenue model, strong distribution plan, team, and capital efficiency. Publiseer is a digital content distribution platform that lets independent African writers and musicians distribute, promote, protect and monetize their digital contents across hundreds of partner stores worldwide, at no charge, with just a single click. Creatives can monitor their sales performance across all partner stores using the Publiseer centralized dashboard.
Founded in August 4, 2017, Publiseer has received so many awards and recognitions, including becoming the first and only African publisher to join the International Publishing Distribution Association in Madrid, getting nominated for the 4th AppsAfrica Innovation Awards, winning the OD Impact Challenge 2019, emerging a finalist at a Harvard Business School New Venture Competition 2018, and participating in the MIT Solve Global Challenges.
Nigeria's digital content distribution company announced on Twitter that it has been accepted to Singularity University's Global Startup Program. With this acceptance, the founders, Chidi Nwaogu and Chika Nwaogu will be participating in the Global Startup Program. The program has been the flagship program of Singularity University since 2008. The program has served innovators from a wide diversity of backgrounds, like Muhammad Yunus, Anousheh Ansari, Astro Teller, Naveen Jain, Sylvia Earle, Esteban Bullrich, Peter Worden, and delegations from UNICEF and World Food Programme amongst others.
The Global Startup Program (GSP) has generated more than 1,000 impact innovations from over 45 countries, and 88% of the startups that become portfolio companies continue to raise funds following their year with Singularity University (SU). SU is a Silicon Valley think tank that offers educational programs and a business incubator. According to its website, it focuses on scientific progress and "exponential" technologies. It was founded in 2008 by Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil at the NASA Research Park in California, United States.
GSP helps future-focused entrepreneurs transform radical ideas into tangible impact on a global scale. It’s a structured, immersive program offering startup-focused educational resources and world-class mentorship from SU’s faculty, staff, and industry experts—in a safe, nurturing environment. The program aims to scale startups into global businesses. We want to inspire you to solve the world’s biggest challenges and impact the lives of a billion people.
Publiseer is a digital publisher that helps African writers and musicians from low-income communities to distribute and monetize their creative works across over 400 digital stores in 100 countries, with just a single click and at no charge. Publiseer became profitable after eight months from inception, and been described by Konbini as "one of the largest digital publishers in Africa".
The digital publisher has received so many awards and recognitions, including becoming the first and only African publisher to join the International Publishing Distribution Association in Madrid, getting nominated for the 4th AppsAfrica Innovation Awards, and emerging a finalist at a Harvard Business School New Venture Competition.
Publiseer has been accepted into several accelerators and incubators, such as Microsoft's Accelerate Labs and University of Cape Town's Venture Incubation Programme. The digital publisher has been extensively covered by hundreds of media houses around the world for its exceptional achievements in the world of digital publishing.
Nigeria's digital publishing company, Publiseer, is set to partner with Google Play Books, to support Google's digital book distribution service in fulfilling the publishing requests it receives in Africa. In a connection email from Phyllis, a Project and Process Manager of Google, to Judy, the Lead Product Manager of Google Play Books, Google "is looking into ways to support the publishing requests that [it] received in Africa", and it sees Publiseer as the right feat for this.
"We met Phyllis via the Google Ally program, and since then, she has offered invaluable advice to us that has helped us made wiser decisions," says Chidi Nwaogu, the co-founder and CEO at Publiseer, who recently emerged a finalist at Opportunity Desk Impact Challenge 2019, which seeks to recognize and support the efforts of young change-makers working to bring positive change to their communities.
"Since Google Play Books isn't in Africa and doesn't plan on expanding to expand to Africa in the nearest future, it has sought to partner with a leading digital book publisher here in Africa to fulfill the publishing requests it receives in Africa, and we are humbled to be considered," Chidi continued. This partnership comes at the time Publiseer announced its expansion to Egypt, its first entrance to Northern Africa.
This is Publiseer's fourth expansion outside its home country Nigeria. Before this, Publiseer has expanded into Ghana, Kenya and South Africa. With this expansion, Publiseer's authors and musical artists from Egypt will get customer support via +20 101 818 7476.
Publiseer is a digital publishing company for independent African writers and musicians, founded in 2017 by Nigerian serial entrepreneurs and computer programmers Chidi Nwaogu and Chika Nwaogu. Publiseer has been nominated for the 4th AppsAfrica Innovations Awards under the "Media & Entertainment" category.
Led by serial software entrepreneurs Chidi and Chika Nwaogu, Publiseer is an award-winning digital publisher that helps African writers and musicians from low-income communities to distribute and monetize their creative works across over 400 digital stores in 100 countries, with just a single click and at no charge.
Publiseer has been the backbone of a number of A-list Nigerian musicians like Klever Jay, Erigga and CDQ. Also leading the pack with inspiring quarterly profit exceeding over ten thousands US dollars.
Headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, Publiseer has so far published over 1,000 books and songs since opening its doors in 2017 to independent African writers and musicians and has gone on to expand from Nigeria into Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. Publiseer currently has a footprint in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa, and is in the process of creating a presence in Egypt.
Most recently, Nathan Hull, the Chief Content & Commercial Officer at Bookchoice in the Netherlands has been recently appointed as the New Advisor of the digital publisher. Bookchoice is a curated B2B2C ebook and audiobook digital book-club offering just eight strictly selected titles for an affordable-to-all price point.
Nathan is also a Board Member of Katalyze in the United Arab Emirates. Before joining Bookchoice, Nathan was the Chief Business Development Officer at Mofibo, the Digital Development Director at Penguin Books, and the Senior Digital Marketing Manager at Universal Music Group.
Nathan has years of experience working with one of the world's largest book publishers and record labels, and he brings this wealth of knowledge into Publiseer.
According to Nathan's LinkedIn profile, he joined Publiseer last month, and he aims to connect the digital publisher to commercial giants such as Penguin Books and Universal Music. Based in the United Kingdom, Nathan has spoken on over 40 international stages, including Abu Dhabi, Amman, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Austin, and has been a judge in several competitions and awards, such as BAFTA, IC Tomorrow, Webbys, The Guardian MEGAs, Music Ally Digital Music Awards, and the Future Book Awards.
As the holidays approach, Nigeria's digital content distribution company, Publiseer, has been working hard on developing new features and partnerships based on the feedback it received so far this year. In the spirit of the holidays, today, Publiseer announces that it will now deliver digital content to over 3,000 book libraries around the world, including the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia, thanks to cloudLibrary, a lending platform by Bibliotheca.
Bibliotheca has been a highly requested distribution channel from most of Publiseer's authors, so Publiseer is really excited about this expansion of its distribution channel. Two months ago, Publiseer announced that it will be taking its library distribution even deeper with its addition of Baker & Taylor as part of its library distribution service. Now, the distribution goes even deeper with the addition of cloudLibrary.
These new libraries to be added to Publiseer's distribution channel have hundreds of thousands of eBooks and very engaged readers, and so this is an exciting opportunity for expanding the readership of its authors. All books published by Publiseer will be automatically be distributed to cloudLibrary after December 20, 2018.
"The upcoming holidays might delay the regular distribution process. However, we're working harder to expedite the distribution process", says Chidi Nwaogu, Publiseer's Chief Executive Officer, who was recently invited to The Future Leaders Forum 2018 by The Future Awards Africa in partnership with the University of Sussex.
The cloudLibrary platform offers royalties based on their standard library model and "Pay Per Use" (PPU) option. With the standard library model, the library purchases a single copy of an author's book to lend out. As a book is purchased for lending Publiseer provides a higher library price, which is three times higher than the original list price of the book at other bookstores like Amazon. Of course, the royalty of the author will be paid out after this higher price.
With the PPU option, a check-out of an author's book by a patron triggers a sale. The price of a check-out is 30% of the book's original list price. For Publiseer's authors who use the Premium Distribution Option, they get to keep all the royalties they earn from Bibliotheca.
Publiseer is a digital publisher that lets writers and musicians from low-income communities in Africa publish, promote, protect, and monetize their digital contents across hundreds of partner stores worldwide, at no charge, with just a single click. Publiseer has been described by Konbini as "one of the largest digital publishers in Africa".
Publiseer took to its Facebook page to announce its third expansion outside its home country Nigeria. This time, the digital publisher expands to South Africa, the country the word 'Publiseer' comes from. Before this expansion, Publiseer had expanded into its neighbouring West African country Ghana, and Kenya. With this new expansion, Publiseer's authors and musical artists from South Africa will get customer support via +27 64 396 8857. Before this expansion, Publiseer's creatives from South Africa only got support via email and chat messaging.
An expansion into South Africa has always been in the pipeline. The founders, Chidi and Chika Nwaogu named Publiseer over a year ago from the Afrikaans word that translates to 'publish' in English. The founders have always known that expansion into South Africa was imminent. "When naming the platform, we brainstormed and played around with a couple of words. Many words from different languages, but the name Publiseer really stood out. It stood out in many ways. One, it was just a letter different from the word Publisher and it also means publish in Afrikaans, a language spoken in South Africa and Namibia," Chidi Nwaogu, Co-founder and CEO of Publiseer says. "Finally expanding into the South African market is a dream come true. Hopefully, we get to make several milestones here as we've done in Nigeria."
The book publishing and music industry in Africa is very large. In Nigeria alone, the music industry is worth $47 million (2015). This figure is expected to reach $86 million in 2020. The music revenue in South Africa is expected to be $178 million in 2020. Kenya's music revenue is expected to grow from $19 million (2016) to $29 million in 2020. In South Africa, digital music streaming revenue is forecast to rise from $5.3 million in 2015 to $31.5 million in 2020, and the turnover from locally published e-books in South Africa was $209,300 in 2015. "We know that South Africa has a huge potential for digital publishing and that's why we're here," Chidi continues.
Launched on August 4, 2017, Publiseer publishes, protects and monetizes the creative works of writers and musicians from low-income communities in Africa, at no charge, with just a single click. As of writing, Publiseer has published 133 books and 518 tracks by 121 authors and 240 musicians, generating over US $3,000 every month in revenue. Publiseer has received several awards and recognitions during the past year, which includes being nominated for the 4th AppsAfrica Innovations Awards and being the first African publisher to be inducted into the International Publishing Distribution Association. The digital publisher came into the limelight when it emerged a finalist at the 2018 Harvard Business School New Venture Competition and got accepted into the Venture Incubation Programme by the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town.
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| Chidi Nwaogu, CEO of Publiseer, pitching at Startupbootcamp at Capital Square, Ikoyi. |
Nigeria's digital publishing company, Publiseer has been selected to pitch at the Greentree pitch day on the 13th of July, 2018, taking place 9am at Co-Creation Hub, 6th Floor, 294 Herbert Macaulay Way, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria. The founder of Publiseer, Chidi Nwaogu, will pitch for 10mins about Publiseer and take questions from the audience for 5mins.
The pitch event is hosted by Greentree Investment, an early-stage investment company looking to invest a maximum of $200,000 and a minimum of $20,000 - $35,000 in promising tech companies. Startups that will be pitching on the Greentree Startup Lab Demo Day at CcHub are operating in financial technology, e-commerce, media, mobile apps, enterprise software and data space. All startups are generating revenue, plan to achieve positive cash flow within 6 to 12 months of the investment, and targeting a global market.
Publiseer is a digital publishing platform tailored to meet the growing needs of independent African writers and musicians from low-income communities. Nevertheless, Publiseer is home to several A-list Nigerian musicians, DJs and producers, international musical artists and famous writers. As of writing, the profitable company has distributed and monetized over 500 creative works of over 250 writers and musicians worldwide.
Nigeria's digital publishing company, Publiseer has been selected to pitch at the 'The Best of Nigeria Ecosystem Challenge' organized by AfricArena, a South African based conference that gives to the best Nigerian startup companies an opportunity to pitch their businesses, and bring the best investors and corporates from Europe to Africa, and introducing them to the greatest startup Africa has to offer.
"I am delighted to announce that Publiseer has been selected to come pitch on d-day and maybe win your ticket for the grand final in November",
said Adrien Maire, the Event & Project Manager of AfricArena in an email to Chidi Nwaogu, the CEO of Publiseer, welcoming the digital content distribution company to the AfricArena community.
The pitch event will be taking place in Lagos on the 18th of July at the MEST Lagos incubator. According to Adien of AfricArena,
"AfricArena is the ultimate deal flow platform, bringing investor and startup together in one central location."
The event sources and finds the best startups in Lagos, aiming to give them exposure in front of their network of corporates and investors who are looking for partners such as startups to start working in Lagos. To increase its reach and go bigger this year, the AfricArena team is traveling to several destinations around Africa including Lagos, to source and look for the best business models Africa has to offer.
The challenge will be six startups selected, and the winner will have the opportunity to participate in the AfricArena main event in Cape Town in November.
Publiseer is a digital publishing platform tailored to meet the growing needs of independent African writers and musicians from low-income communities. Nevertheless, Publiseer is home to several A-list Nigerian musicians, DJs and producers, international musical artists and famous writers. As of writing, the profitable company has distributed and monetized over 500 creative works of over 250 writers and musicians worldwide.
After a team of over 400 mentors spent the months of March to May reviewing over 4,900 businesses in all regions of Africa, Nigeria's digital publishing startup, Publiseer, was awarded the 'Most Needed in the Region' award at the 2018 African Entrepreneurship Award powered by BMCE Bank of Africa, a large commercial bank in Morocco, which operates over 697 branches in Morocco and 560 branches in Africa. The prestigious award offers $1 million to all eligible African entrepreneurs with extraordinary businesses or with an idea for one.
The award categories are divided into two; Innovation and Sports. The Innovation award rewards new technologies, new business models, or attempts to solve an existing problem that's never been solved before in a region in Africa, while the Sports award rewards businesses that promote integrity, perseverance and friendship that unites communities in Africa. The goal of the African Entrepreneurship Award is to close the huge gap in startup funding, so it's more than just a grant. Thousands of entrepreneurs answered questions about their idea, market, scalability and sustainability, and received free mentoring and individual scores. All 54 African countries participated in the award.
"Publiseer has just been awarded the 'Most Needed in the Region' award at the African Entrepreneurship Award @AEAward powered by BMCE Bank of Africa!", read a tweet by Publiseer. The startup led by Chidi Nwaogu, who is a finalist for a full scholarship at MEST Africa's graduate-level entrepreneurship program, has made giant strides this year, including emerging a finalist at the Harvard Business School New Venture Competition 2018 and becoming profitable in eight months from inception. BMCE Bank of Africa has offices in France, Spain, United Kingdom, China, Italy, Germany, UAE, Belgium, Canada and Netherlands.
Remember in February, when the startup, Publiseer, represented Nigeria at the Harvard Business School New Venture Competition 2018? The startup has also been selected as one of the startups to compete at the Startup Istanbul Challenge 2018 in Tukey on 19 - 22 October. The news was delivered by Elif Coşkunkan, the Managing Partner of Startup Istanbul on the 2nd of July. The past winner of Startup Istanbul, Tespack, closed a €2 million invested led by the jury.
As one of the competitors of the challenge, Publiseer will get 3 tickets for its co-founders and team members, 3 tickets for the boat tour in Bosphorous, a demo table in the exhibit hall on 22 October, 3 webinars before the event, one-to-one pitching training, Istanbul Technical University Technopark tour, workshop on how to establish a company in Turkey, quickfire pitch on stage on 22 October, digital branding with startany.com and startupi
This news comes with the news that Publiseer is one of the startups that was recently rewarded with a ₦120,000 voucher from the Lagos State Government through its Lagos Innovates program. This voucher will be redeemed by Publiseer at one of the partner hubs of the program, which includes Venia Hub, Leadspace Shared Facilities Limited, ReDahlia Workspaces, Capital Square Workspace Solutions Ltd., Workstation, and Cranium One.
Startup Istanbul is the leading startup event that brings together founders, investors and executives in the region. It's a gathering of the leading startups, internet companies, business angels and venture capitalists from Europe, Africa and Asia. Startup Istanbul is organized by Etohum, the leading startup accelerator and seed investor in Turkey.
Nigerian digital publishing company Publiseer has been selected for the shortlist of startup to pitch at the Disrupt Africa Live Pitch Competition taking place on May 16th in Nairobi, Kenya. As part of the 10 tech startups selected, Publiseer will have three minutes to pitch on stage at the AHUB East event, with the best startup winning a trip to pitch at AfricaCom in Cape Town in November alongside other prizes. This news was delivered by Gabriella Mulligan, a co-founder of Disrupt Africa. This is the first live startup pitching competition to be hosted by Disrupt Africa.
The competition will be taking place at the East Africa Com event at the Radisson Blu in Nairobi's Upper Hill. According to Disrupt Africa, the event "will see up to 10 tech startups selected to pitch their innovative solutions live on stage in front of an esteemed jury and audience of potential investors and corporate partners. The winning startup will earn an all-expense-paid trip to Cape Town to pitch their startup at AfricaCom, Africa's premier tech conference, in November 2018."
Other prizes to be won at the competition include a marketing package worth US$500 from Disrupt Africa, Africa's foremost startup news outlet, and a six months free membership of the Nairobi Garage Club SPace on Ngong Road. According to Tom Jackson, a co-founder of Disrupt Africa, " For more than three years now, Disrupt Africa has been the vital link between innovative African tech startups and investors, partners and other opportunities to grow their businesses. It only seems right that we expand our mission into the physical arena, and we are delighted to hold our first live pitching competition at AHUB East in Nairobi in May."
“We’re very excited to offer a new platform for Africa’s startup community to show off its innovative flair. We look forward to selecting the cream of East Africa’s startup crop to join us for our inaugural Live Pitch Competition – we’re sure it will be an inspiring show, and we hope it unlocks great new opportunities for all involved,” said Gabriella Mulligan.
According to Hannah Clifford, a director of Nairobi Garage, "As the city’s leading entrepreneurship hub, Nairobi Garage is very proud to support the East African leg of the Disrupt Africa Live Pitch Competition. The day promises to be an exceptional chance to see Nairobi’s top tech talent take to the stage, and we look forward to welcoming the winners at our newly opened Club Space."
The competition received several applications from African startups that are less than five years old and the team reviewed and selected the top ten startups with original solutions able to disrupt the social or economic status quo, have a proven traction and looking for funding in order to take their business to the next level.
This news comes three months after Publiseer was accepted to the Ayada Lab Incubation program local workshop in Abuja, organized by the Goethe Institut and Institut Francais, in partnership with Ventures Platform Foundation.
Nigerian digital publishing company Publiseer has been selected for the shortlist of startup to pitch at the Disrupt Africa Live Pitch Competition taking place on May 16th in Nairobi, Kenya. As part of the 10 tech startups selected, Publiseer will have three minutes to pitch on stage at the AHUB East event, with the best startup winning a trip to pitch at AfricaCom in Cape Town in November alongside other prizes.
This news was delivered by Gabriella Mulligan, a co-founder of Disrupt Africa. This is the first live startup pitching competition to be hosted by Disrupt Africa.
The competition will be taking place at the East Africa Com event at the Radisson Blu in Nairobi's Upper Hill. According to Disrupt Africa, the event "will see up to 10 tech startups selected to pitch their innovative solutions live on stage in front of an esteemed jury and audience of potential investors and corporate partners.
The winning startup will earn an all-expense-paid trip to Cape Town to pitch their startup at AfricaCom, Africa's premier tech conference, in November 2018."
Other prizes to be won at the competition include a marketing package worth US$500 from Disrupt Africa, Africa's foremost startup news outlet, and a six months free membership of the Nairobi Garage Club SPace on Ngong Road. According to Tom Jackson, a co-founder of Disrupt Africa, " For more than three years now, Disrupt Africa has been the vital link between innovative African tech startups and investors, partners and other opportunities to grow their businesses.
It only seems right that we expand our mission into the physical arena, and we are delighted to hold our first live pitching competition at AHUB East in Nairobi in May."
“We’re very excited to offer a new platform for Africa’s startup community to show off its innovative flair. We look forward to selecting the cream of East Africa’s startup crop to join us for our inaugural Live Pitch Competition – we’re sure it will be an inspiring show, and we hope it unlocks great new opportunities for all involved,” said Gabriella Mulligan.
According to Hannah Clifford, a director of Nairobi Garage, "As the city’s leading entrepreneurship hub, Nairobi Garage is very proud to support the East African leg of the Disrupt Africa Live Pitch Competition.
The day promises to be an exceptional chance to see Nairobi’s top tech talent take to the stage, and we look forward to welcoming the winners at our newly opened Club Space."
The competition received several applications from African startups that are less than five years old and the team reviewed and selected the top ten startups with original solutions able to disrupt the social or economic status quo, have a proven traction and looking for funding in order to take their business to the next level.
This news comes three months after Publiseer was accepted to the Ayada Lab Incubation program local workshop in Abuja, organized by the Goethe Institut and Institut Francais, in partnership with Ventures Platform Foundation.
Digital content distribution company, Publiseer, and music production and beat distribution company, Caketunes, has today concluded a partnership that will see more African musical contents around the world.
Publiseer will distribute beats and songs uploaded on the Caketunes platform to hundreds of well-established music platforms like iTunes, Spotify, Google Play Music, Pandora, Deezer and Amazon Music. Also, artists using Publiseer can buy beats on Caketunes for a 25% discount.
"We completely believe in taking chances. Seeing Publiseer launched last year was the best story ever. We had always known that we'd definitely do business together some day and here after a short while, we are coming together to simplify the process of uploading music across all music streaming platforms and stores," Ability Elijah, Co-founder of Caketunes, said.
"Unlike other platforms, Publiseer does not charge musicians to distribute their songs. They probably must have studied the market and finally decided to take the free route, which was actually what caught our interest. These guys understand their market," Elijah continued.
"Caketunes is a welcome development to African producers and musicians seeking ways to sell their creatives. Our partnership will see hundreds of African musical contents distributed worldwide, if not thousands," Chidi Nwaogu, Co-founder of Publiseer, said.
"This partnership comes at a moment when Publiseer is planning on taking a deeper step into music distribution. We are known as a digital music distributor, but we are working towards the distribution of physical CDs worldwide. This service will be rolled out very soonest," Nwaogu continued.
Publiseer is a digital music distribution platform for independent musical artists, while Caketunes is a marketplace for buying and selling beats, songs, and production services.
Publiseer, a Nigerian digital publisher, becomes the first African publishing company to join the International Publishing Distribution Association, an international umbrella organization for companies in the field of publishing distribution.
Some notable companies part of IPDA are Bookwire (Germany), BookRepublic (Italy), Vearsa (Ireland), DeMarque (Canada), Overdrive (USA), Numilog (France), Cyberlibris (France), Hipertexto (Colombia), Netizen (México), PocketBook (Switzerland),Tolino Media (Germany), Books on Demand (Germany), Trajectory (USA), StreetLib (Italy), Libreka (Germany), ArtaTech (Poland), Ingram (USA), Publit (Sweden), Viz Media (Japan), GiantChair (USA), Nextory (Sweden), CB (The Netherlands), and Izneo (France).
As part of its membership, the founders of Publiseer, Chidi and Chika Nwaogu, will be attending the 5th International Digital Distributors Meeting organized by IPDA, that will be held on 6th and 7th June 2018 in Madrid, Spain. The meeting will focus on issues like, "new business models in the publishing distribution sector", "worldwide growth of self-publishing", and "publishing and distribution of hypermedia content".
Publiseer is a digital publishing company in Nigeria, focused on distributing the books and songs of independent Nigerian writers and musicians, at no charge. The mission of the company is to promote the creativity of Nigerians to the rest of the world.
The publishing platform has announced it will commence print-book publishing and distribution of physical music CDs from next month. It has also launched 'Publiseer for Music Videos', a publishing package that will help musical artists get their music videos on Vevo. This month, Publiseer added Pandora to the list of partner stores it distributes songs to.
As of writing, Publiseer has distributed 350+ books and songs of 200+ Nigerian writers and musicians, to 400+ stores in 100 countries, including Amazon, Google Play store, and Apple store.
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