{"id":7269,"date":"2026-07-11T11:01:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T15:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/groupe3737.com\/startupfest-2026-recap\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T11:23:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:23:50","slug":"startupfest-2026-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groupe3737.com\/en\/startupfest-2026-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Startupfest 2026 Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s a wrap on a memorable edition of Startupfest.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three days of exchanges, pitches, and inspiring connections. Today, we are thrilled to announce the winners of the Black Innovation Zone 2026 grants. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congratulations to Danneelle Crisp (ElleLogic AI) and Joshua Ekundayo (ClassClown), recipients of the two BIZ $20 000 Scale Grant Prize, as well as Faith Oloruntoba (Cotriply) and Leslie Emenalo (KoboPay), recipients of the BIZ $10 000 Growth-Stage and Early Stage Grants Prizes.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These entrepreneurs represent the future: leaders with bold ideas, community-rooted projects, and vibrant ambition. Thank you to everyone who made this edition a success, whether its founders, mentors, judges, or partners. You helped make this zone a true space for propulsion and recognition.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We leave with ideas, new connections, and renewed energy to continue growing the entrepreneurial ecosystem, to diversify it and make it shine, here and now.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s a wrap on a memorable edition of Startupfest. Three days of exchanges, pitches, and inspiring connections. Today, we are thrilled to announce the winners of the Black Innovation Zone 2026 grants. Congratulations to Danneelle Crisp (ElleLogic AI) and Joshua Ekundayo (ClassClown), recipients of the two BIZ $20 000 Scale Grant Prize, as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classifiee"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupe3737.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupe3737.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupe3737.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupe3737.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupe3737.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/groupe3737.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7272,"href":"https:\/\/groupe3737.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269\/revisions\/7272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupe3737.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupe3737.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupe3737.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupe3737.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}