Three young Nigerian women set out to redefine the way small business owners are able to access legal resources.
In toying with an idea, Funkola Odeleye, Odunoluwa Longe and Bola Olonisakin created DIYlaw, a platform that TechCabal describes as “a one-stop legal service delivery hub where entrepreneurs can generate legal documents, register their businesses and intellectual properties and have access to resources in an easy-to-digest format.
“We just noticed that there are certain basic things clients could easily do without having to consult a lawyer if there was an automated service and we decided to toy with the idea.”- Funkola Odeleye (Co-Founder DIYlaw).
DIYlaw won the Innovating Justice Award for SME Empowerment Innovation Challenge East and West Africa, held in Netherlands this month and went away with $40,000 (N7,985,600).
Speaking to Ventures Africa, Odeleye proudly calls their victory at Netherlands an achievement and rightly so. It has been a gruelling journey up until the moment of clinching the title. The Innovating Justice Challenge is said to have garnered about 200 applications from across East and West Africa, which was then narrowed down to seven and then to the final three at the Innovating Justice Bootcamp that held in Lagos two months ago.