After another year where the Seedstars World team traveled to 20 African countries with the mission to find the best tech startups in emerging markets, we are now just two weeks away of hosting our third Africa Summit in Maputo, Mozambique on December 14th.
During 2017 we got to witness growing ecosystems, better startups and more involvement from public and private partners. We are very excited to be able to bring the entire network together in Mozambique in December and together look into some of the opportunities of the continent and explore how technologies can rapidly improve the current status quo in emerging markets worldwide.
The Africa Regional Summit will last for 3 days and bring together over 500 attendees commencing with a bootcamp for the participating startups, an ecosystem tour, an investor day and culminate with a Conference on December 14th, featuring the startup pitches, keynote speakers, and panel discussions that will support a range of topics and ideas pertinent to entrepreneurs in the region.
The event is hosted by local ambassador: UX Information Technologies. The main sponsor of the event is Standard Bank. Other partners include both local and international organisations such as: Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, UNFPA, Merck, EnelX, TRECC, Microsoft, Orange, Amazon Web Services, WWF, The Financial Sector Deepening Moçambique, the Bop Innovation Center, Switzerland’s Development Cooperation, Google, GSMA, and VC4A amongst others.
The startups that are invited for the main stage on December 14th in Maputo, Mozambique are as follows:
MaTontine seeks to solve a current and challenging problem that exists in Africa and the developing world: how to offer financial services like small loans at scale to the financially excluded. We do this by digitizing an existing, traditional, peer-to-peer savings system with millions of users called Tontines in Francophone Africa in order to provide services like loans & micro-medical insurance.
Numida is building the trusted suite of business management and financial products that enable African small businesses to thrive. We help entrepreneurs turn their subsistence businesses into growth businesses by getting them to ditch pen and paper and digitize their operations. Through our mobile app small business owners can manage their inventory, cash flows, and employees while at the same time gain insight into their business operations: what they are buying, from whom, for how much; what they are selling, to whom, and for how much. Numida uses these unique datasets to offer entrepreneurs innovative mobile financial products such as customized, convenient, and unsecured working capital loans that are disbursed within 24 hours via mobile money.
GiftedMom was registered in 2015 as a mobile-based maternal health education solution to reduce maternal mortality rates in emerging markets by 9.7% annually. Faced with infrastructural challenges in distributing and monetizing the digital service, we decided to build our own distribution technology to disrupt the $70 billion digital opportunity in emerging markets.
CinetPay is an African ‘fintech’ created in 2016. We support businesses in their growth by equipping them with electronic money payment and transfer solutions. Through our activity, we open new opportunities to entrepreneurs in French-speaking Africa, enables millions of persons excluded from banking services to pay online, and hence contribute to the emergence of both strong and inclusive digital economy.
TABECH Serviços will present a services named MovelCare, which uses mobile phones without access to internet to access funeral insurance.
EMGuidance solves a critical problem for medical professionals by aggregating medical content from regional experts in one app.
Nefrids Africa, has developed SimuBima, a Mobile Phone Insurance Solution designed to reach as many users across Tanzania using digital channels.
In case you want to swing by to meet the startups in person in Maputo, Mozambique on December 14th, get 15% off by using discount code: welovessw on www.seedstarsafrica.com