Zenith Bank Awards ₦190m to Innovators at Tech Fair 2026

Zenith Bank Plc (NGX: ZENITHBANK) awarded a total of ₦190m to 13 winners across three innovation competitions during the sixth edition of the Zenith Bank Tech Fair 2026, which took place virtually on November 5. The event, themed “AI: Embrace or Extinct,” attracted over 3,000 submissions from developers, entrepreneurs, and secondary school students.

This prize pool is the largest in the event's history. In the Hackathon category, Team Solo won ₦35m, followed by 10x Brains with ₦20m and Rumour Hunters with ₦15m. Òmìnira and Team Avera received ₦10m each for fourth and fifth places.

Cutstruct Technology Limited won the Startup Pitch Competition, earning ₦35m, with Sproutly and PharmaRun taking second and third places, respectively. The newly introduced Future Innovators Challenge awarded Caleb British International School ₦5m for first place, while Queen of the Rosary College, Onitsha, and Regina Pacis International School received ₦3m and ₦2m, respectively.

Winning solutions addressed issues in construction procurement, school payments, healthcare access, and education.