Fast growing Nigerian fintech startup NebulaPay has emerged as one of the finalists at the Startup Istanbul Challenge 2018.

Among 60,000 startup applications from 140 countries, NebulaPay has been selected as one of the few game-changing and promising startups to compete at Startup Istanbul this October. These startups are the ones to be watched closely by the mentors, angel investors, VCs and global companies at the event.

Startup Istanbul, organised by Etohum, a startup accelerator and seed investor, is a gathering of the leading startups, Internet companies, business angels and venture capitalists from Asia and Europe. Every year, Etohum selects the most promising startups from thousands of applicants. These teams are trained and mentored for an acceleration period of 3 months. Etohum works with world class mentors, including advisors from Silicon Valley, the heart of entrepreneurship.

This year, the Startup Istanbul Challenge will hold in Turkey on 19 – 22 October 2018 and will be graced by 500 startups, 500 investors and 4000 attendees.

The event is made of networking. Every person you meet can give you inspiring ideas, valuable advices and opportunities for collaboration. You can find your investor, your mentor or the right startup to join or invest in. The only thing you need is energy and passion for entrepreneurship.


NebulaPay ( https://www.nebulapay.com/ ), powered by artificial intelligence, is a secure conversational payments service that enables users to make recurring payments for things like airtime, electricity and DStv using Facebook Messenger in their own language.

You would recall that last year, a Nigerian FinTech company, Advancio Interactive, won the Challenge.