N8.5 million (about $6,400) in prize money lands in the hands of three Nigerian women founders

Victoria Okorie-Duru put down her corporate job, built a mobile fertility clinic called Wakamedics, and this week walked off a Lagos stage with N5 million (about $3,760) — the top prize at Wetech's PitchHer 2026. Her clinic brings low-cost fertility diagnostics and telemedicine to women who could never afford a traditional clinic, and it has grown 2.3 times in under two years without any venture funding, earning over N150 million (about $113,000) in 2026. Sharing the stage with her: Blessing Aniefiok, a prosthetist whose Dynalimb Technologies prints affordable 3D prosthetics for Nigerians who wait months for a device, taking N2.5 million (about $1,880); and Misi Chanel Ogunlana's TFB Studios AI with N1 million (about $750). Twenty-five founders spent eight weeks in an investment-readiness programme before six finalists pitched.