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Build a Space Tech Startup Pitch Deck for a Nigerian Earth Observation Company

Research the Nigerian and West African market for Earth observation data and build a full investor pitch deck for a fictional (or real) startup selling satellite-derived insights to a specific industry. This is a strategy and communication exercise in one of the fastest-growing segments of African deep tech.

The brief

Nigeria has no commercial Earth observation satellite in orbit, yet Nigerian industries from oil and gas to urban planning to agriculture generate enormous demand for geospatial data. That data is currently sourced from foreign providers like Planet Labs, Maxar, and ESA's Sentinel programme, often at prices that exclude local researchers and smaller businesses entirely. A small number of Nigerian startups are beginning to close this gap. Your brief is to build a 10-15 slide investor pitch deck for a startup that packages satellite imagery and analysis for one specific Nigerian market: choose from oil spill detection in the Niger Delta, urban expansion mapping for Lagos State, or deforestation monitoring in Cross River. Do not try to cover all three. Pick one and go deep. The deck must include: a problem statement with real data, a market size estimate (show your working), a product description, a revenue model, a go-to-market plan, a competitive landscape, and an ask (how much funding and what it will be used for). Use publicly available sources to make the numbers credible. NiMet, NASRDA, the World Bank, and ESA's open data portal are good starting points. What distinguishes strong work here is specificity. Anyone can say 'the market is large.' The best submissions will name real potential customers, cite actual incidents (oil spills, deforestation reports, planning disputes) that prove the demand, and show that the founder understands the regulatory environment, including NASRDA's role in Nigerian space policy.