NESG announces finalists of the startup pitching competition

Agriple – Our Solution, Agriple, is an online platform developed to directly connect farmers with consumers and off-takers to reduce farm to fork time, increase wealth, and reduce food waste. Since most of the food waste from Nigeria and Africa come from post-harvest loss, improving farmers’ access to market, and providing efficient logistics will go a long way to cut food waste.

Notitia – is a digital health startup, focused on developing intelligent solutions to address the paucity of health data in emerging markets around the world.

Phaheem Pharmaceuticals LTD – is a registered company that was based to be a business venture and enterprises, with the aim to promote improved healthcare delivery in Nigeria. The product we named Phaheem Plate is used to convert footfall to electricity.

AfriNET Power Tech Solutions – Renewable energy and particularly solar power provide the best solution to the challenges of poor access to electricity, especially in the rural areas in Nigeria but the cost of installations have made mass adoption difficult. We have re-imagined the system and developed the ‘Inverterless’ Solar Energy solution. It eliminates the use of inverters in solar power installations and the DC – AC conversions which is largely inefficient as the appliances will still convert the current back to DC at the end load. The solution works great and is entirely on DC, it gives a great boost to energy efficiency campaigns; with the use of energy-saving appliances for households and workplaces. This ensures a reduction in the overall cost of power installation by over 30%, while doubling the rate of adoption of solar power in especially off-grid areas.

Doctoora E-Health Ltd – is a health-tech startup providing healthcare professionals with medical facility rentals for their private practice. We also run an online marketplace where consumers can search and book for healthcare professionals within the Doctoora network. With Doctoora, healthcare professionals can start a private practice and see their patients across multiple locations without incurring setup costs and overheads.

GatePass – helps residents of estates, neighbourhoods and multi-family communities manage day-to-day interactions including bill payments, visitor management and communication comfortably from their mobile phones.

Loystar – is a retail and loyalty platform designed to help micro, small and medium business sell and drive repeat sales in their business.

Gricd Services Limited – We build IoT-enabled, active cooling devices that are used in the storage and transportation of temperature-sensitive commodity. Our flagship product, the Frij, is a smart active cooling device used in the transportation and storage of temperature-sensitive commodities. It is a two-part solution comprising of the hardware active cooling/storage device and software infrastructure that could be accessed using a handheld mobile device or through Operation Control Centers. Unlike alternatives in the market today, our hardware device maintains the preset storage temperature while storage insights are gained through the software. Our business model is to lease/sell the hardware while the software (storage and security of items) are accessed on a subscription/ licensed model. Through the software application, users are able to monitor cooling trends, the location history of their items/commodities and control these variables. Trigger alarms can also be preset for out-of-range temperatures, location, lid opening detection and power status.