Atlas: GEN’s Policy Portal

Year Introduced: 1994 | National-level

ALMI operates through multiple interconnected financing and advisory services designed to serve businesses at different growth stages.Financing Services:Startup Loans provide initial funding to early…

Year Introduced: 2020 | National-level

The program operates through two distinct financing pillars, each targeting different startup segments and utilizing different delivery mechanisms.​Pillar I: Corona Matching Facility (CMF)Pillar I…

Year Introduced: 2020 | National-level

The ASF provides comprehensive financial and advisory services tailed to the needs of innovative startups. The ASF offers the following types of funding: Seed funding: The ASF provides seed…

Year Introduced: 2011 | National-level

The CDC plays a key role in supporting entrepreneurs and the startup ecosystem in several ways:Financing Startups and SMEsThe CDC provides equity and quasi-equity financing to innovative startups and…

Year Introduced: 2015 | National-level

The Rowad Model was built over the years through research and observation on the basic tools and necessities required by an entrepreneur to startup, grow, expand, and turnaround a business or idea.…

Year Introduced: 2020 | National-level

The proposed Startups Equity Investment Program would allocate $2 billion in federal dollars ($1.5 billion initially, and $500 million in follow-on investment) to the states on a straightforward…

Year Introduced: 2019 | Supra-national

The EIC provides several funding mechanisms for startups, SMEs and researchers to utilise in the process of bringing their innovations to market. They include: EIC Pathfinder The EIC Pathfinder…

Year Introduced: 2022 | National-level

There are five main features of the Nigerian Startup Act which provide a legal definition for startups, access to funding, the creation of an information portal for startups, the creation of a…