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New SpurtX! Updates: June 2025

New SpurtX! Updates: June 2025

Opeyemi Odunsi
June 30, 2025

Hello

This month, we’re spotlighting new updates like our Spark! suggestions and hiring analytics on Spot!. Scroll down for highlights, insights, and opportunities you won’t want to miss.

TL;DR

Introducing Spark! Suggestions Sign into SpurtX!
Hiring Analytics is live on SpurtX! Sign into SpurtX!
Emmanuel’s Journey with Data. Read about it
Are you a founder or employee in the Nigeria Tech Ecosystem? We want to hear from you
Our partner is hiring for a couple of roles. Apply here

Introducing Spark! Suggestions: our latest addition to our employee recognition tool, Spark!.

We’ve introduced a game-changing feature to our employee recognition tool, Spark!: Spark! Suggestions

Now, instead of guessing who deserves a shoutout (or a reality check), Spark! Suggestions analyses employee data across SpurtX!’s ecosystem (from project activity in Sync! to appraisal scores in Spur!) and gives you real-time recommendations on which Spark! to assign.

Here’s what you can now do better:

🎯Reward consistent high performers with gifts and incentives

🏆 Award standout employees after major wins

🚩 Flag concerns early by identifying performance drops

All backed by data. All automated.

Spark! Suggestions is fully live and ready to help you build a more motivated and highly performing team.

Book a Demo

We just made recruitment even smarter. With our new Hiring Analytics feature, you can now track and measure key hiring metrics to refine your recruitment strategy and make data-driven decisions.

Get insights like average time to hire, offer acceptance rates, the country or gender demographics of your applicants, and many more.

Whether you are a recruiter hiring for multiple clients or an HR manager handling internal recruitment, Spot! Gives you the ability to hire faster and more efficiently

Try it out by signing in or book a demo

Meet Emmanuel, our very own Research Analyst at Spurt!

In this edition, we’re spotlighting Emmanuel Folaranmi, our Research Analyst at Spurt! Emmanuel’s journey with data at Spurt! has been one of growth, curiosity, and purpose. What began as a simple search for information has evolved into a meaningful process of uncovering insights and telling impactful stories with data.

Over time, Emmanuel’s role has shifted beyond the technical tasks of cleaning datasets and building dashboards. Today, his focus is on interpretation: asking the right questions, drawing connections, and helping teams understand what the data is saying and why it matters.

Read more about Emmanuel’s journey here

Between 2010 and now, Nigeria has emerged as a hotspot for technology and innovation on the African continent, it is home to over 90 tech hubs, the most in a single country in all of Africa.

The rise of tech hubs across the country is not only fostering a new generation of entrepreneurs but also driving economic growth and has created well over 100,000 Jobs in the country.

Is this true, or do underlying factors suggest a more complex reality?

We want to hear from you!

Fill out the survey and be part of the conversation!

Let’s build a stronger, more inclusive tech ecosystem together.