Now in its fifth year, the Seedstars Summit will bring together key stakeholders focused on driving technological change in emerging markets, and provide global networking opportunities in Lausanne, Switzerland, the 12th of April 2018.
In its very best global summit to date, Seedstars will gather 65+ handpicked startups from different regions and verticals, and some top-notch speakers (including Rebecca Enonchong – check others here). Startups will compete for different prizes and the title of Seedstars Global Winner, qualifying to win up to $1M in equity investment.
The African startups that will pitch during Seedstars Summit in Lausanne are as follows:
Agriculture Tech
B2C Services & Products
Education
B2B services & products
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.
Fin-tech
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.
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.
TABECH Serviços will present a services named MovelCare, which uses mobile phones without access to internet to access funeral insurance.
Health-tech
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.
Medtech/Biotech
EMGuidance solves a critical problem for medical professionals by aggregating medical content from regional experts in one app.
Insure-tech
Nefrids Africa, has developed SimuBima, a Mobile Phone Insurance Solution designed to reach as many users across Tanzania using digital channels.
Real-Estate
Youdee is an easy and trustful way of finding your ideal real estate property, aiming to bring together owners, renters, buyers, and sellers. It is the first website that centralizes the certified real estate of Kinshasa.
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