Firm Wins Nigeria GITEX Supernova Challenge

Curacel, a starring AI security infrastructure institution successful Nigeria, has emerged arsenic the victor of the 2025 GITEX Nigeria Supernova Challenge and volition correspond Nigeria astatine the 2025 Glovo Startup Campus, which volition beryllium held successful October successful Barcelona, Spain.

Curacel emerged arsenic the victor among the 12 startups that pitched astatine the Grand Finale of the Challenge, held connected Thursday, September 4, astatine the Landmark Event Centre. The Supernova Challenge, a globally recognised transportation competition, made its determination debut astatine GITEX Nigeria.

Across 2 days, implicit 650 startups from much than 27 countries competed for a full prize excavation of $22,000. The contention highlighted game-changing solutions successful assorted sectors, including Agritech, Cybersecurity, Healthtech, and more.

With this success, Curacel’s main enforcement officer, Henry Mascot, volition articulation different startup founders from astir the satellite who volition enactment successful the 3rd variation of the Glovo Startup Campus Week astatine Glovo’s office successful Barcelona, for an intensive programme designed to accelerate growth, networking, and foster planetary collaboration.

Speaking astatine the Grand Finale event, the wide manager of Glovo Nigeria, Lamide Akinola, who was a subordinate of the assemblage for the 2025 GITEX Nigeria Supernova Challenge, congratulated the victor and expressed excitement astir Nigeria’s practice astatine this year’s event. Akinola stated that the enactment marks a milestone successful Glovo’s travel of spotlighting Africa’s startup ecosystem and fostering planetary connections.

“At Glovo, we are committed to enabling entrepreneurs to entree opportunities that not lone turn their businesses but besides lend to the integer translation of Africa. We are arrogant to spot a Nigerian startup laminitis articulation the 2025 Glovo Startup Campus. This is simply a testament to the creativity and resilience of Nigeria’s tech ecosystem,” she said.

In his remarks, vice president, Commercial, Curacel, Abduljahab Momoh, expressed appreciation to the Glovo squad for the opportunity. He noted that the designation volition motivate his squad to accelerate their enlargement into Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the United States of America.

This twelvemonth marks the archetypal clip Nigeria volition beryllium included successful the initiative, pursuing a strategical concern betwixt Glovo and the organisers of the GITEX Nigeria Tech Expo and Future Economy Summit.