Africa’s main tech Accelerator, Startupbootcamp AfriTech, along with anchor associate and main telecoms large, Telecel Group, have chosen the contributors of the much-coveted Accelerator Program, the Africa Startup Initiative Program (ASIP) .
The intrinsic worth of startups in Africa lies of their capability to construct quick and efficient options to urgent challenges. Through the years one other key facet has come to the fray; scaling throughout borders. The ASIP Accelerator has managed to assist founders fine-tune their enterprise fashions whereas additionally facilitating entry into new markets corresponding to Senegal.
This has been doable by a historic partnership with DER/FJ, which was established to advance Entrepreneurship for Girls and Youth in Senegal by the President of the Republic, His Excellency Macky Sall. Giving a keynote on the occasion, Senior Innovation Lead Adrien Schwarz mentioned;
“We’re impressed with the work that Startupbootcamp AfriTech is doing and are excited that there have been thrice extra Francophone founders in comparison with the earlier years. This validates the calibre of startups in Francphone nations and in addition exhibits that their publicity to acceleration has improved. It’s also fantastic to see the progress that the previous Senegalese startups specifically Proxalys,Parcsmart and Yobante have made”
Anchored by telecoms large Telecel, the Africa Startup Initiative Program (ASIP) goals to assist the following technology of early-stage African tech startups which are disrupting key business verticals that embrace FinTech, InsureTech, AgriTech, Local weather-tech, eCommerce, Digital Well being, and CleanTech, Mobility, Micro-leasing, and digitizing the casual economic system.
“Telecel is pleased with the nice effort that was put into this cohort 3 of the Telecel Group ASIP accelerator program powered by SBC AfriTech,” says Telecel Group Government Deputy and ASIP Director Eleanor Azar. “Now we have distinctive startups with revolutionary and positively disruptive methods of treating the African challenges that they’ve got down to clear up and construct their startups round. To those that didn’t make it into the highest 10, I want you all of the luck, you ought to be proud that you’ve got come out on high of greater than 2,000 functions obtained into this system. “
Different companions embrace the Dutch Entrepreneurial Improvement Financial institution (FMO), AWS,Freshworks, Google and Firstbase.
Individuals will obtain an intensive three-month teaching and assist program to speed up their progress and advantages price US$750 000. Startups may even have entry to the worldwide Accelerator Squared platform which has an entire library of content material, group workshops, 1:1 mentoring, collaborative periods with Entrepreneurs in Residence, and invite-only dialogue boards with founders from across the globe.
This system will happen in Dakar, Senegal and startups can be hosted on the D-hub, – an area commissioned by DER/FJ
“We’re excited by the standard of startups on this cohort,” commented Program Director Henry Ojuor. ”20% of them have utilized earlier than, 50% utilized on the suggestions of an alumni founder and all are publish MVP & Put up income with a couple of within the progress stage. Cohort 3 firms are constructing in over 12 verticals and we’ve a 30% feminine founder ratio. It’s positively going to be 13 weeks of far-reaching progress & impression, ” he added.
We’re honored to announce that the next startups can be becoming a member of the 2023 ASIP cohort 3:
Kyanda Africa is a revolutionary Kenyan fintech platform that gives companies and people with handy and dependable cash switch options. The startup has a community of brokers, API gateway, and varied entry channels corresponding to USSD, Cell App & Whatsapp Chatbots making the companies customizable depending on the customers’ wants
PharmaServ is a Nigerian SaaS product, which automates the method of gross sales orders, monitoring gross sales crew efficiency, and reconciling incoming buy orders, funds, and invoices for well being manufacturers. It is a labor-intensive course of that’s nonetheless predominantly handbook for many native firms in rising markets.
Sodishop is a Malian market, a web based gross sales, and buy platform, current in 4 nations in West Africa, we ship 1000’s of orders per 30 days throughout Mali, Senegal, Guinea, and Côte d’Ivoire.
BD Waste is a Ghanaian GreenTech startup that mixes fintech and sustainability to recuperate Plastic waste from communities. Their Digicycle product permits clients to immediately deposit plastic waste into their digital wallets and obtain credit score for it. This credit score can be utilized to buy knowledge packages, airtime, meals gadgets, stationery, and medical health insurance.
Limawa, whose Senegalese founder operates in Côte d’Ivoire goals to deal with the problems of meals conservation and transportation by solar-powered break up air conditioners that may attain -2 °C (designed in CI by our crew). Limawa presents an revolutionary and cost-efficient various to industrial compressors for the chilly chain business. This answer is appropriate for vehicles, containers, and trailers.
Parkwell is a Nigerian on-line sharing Platform that matches drivers with accessible, secure parking areas and helps property house owners listing their parking areas for optimum use. The digital parking platform integrates parking amenities and connects them to cellular for a seamless expertise.
Jand2Gidi, additionally from Nigeria, presents ‘Logistics As A Service’ to B2B and B2B2C clients whose customers are engaged in cross-border commerce. They’ve constructed delivery APIs to offer the identical hassle-free, clear, and trackable delivery companies to their B2B retailers to allow them to develop quicker after almost a decade of constructing strong, cutting-edge freight forwarding and last-mile supply companies
Moja Journey from Côte d’Ivoire has made its mission to allow higher and cleaner mobility companies to African cities by making financing straightforward and accessible for all transportation professionals. Drivers and transport firms can simply qualify for brand spanking new automotive loans and automotive repairs by merely working with Moja Journey’s superior digital fare fee and reserving applied sciences.
SafeTrack is a Morrocan know-how startup that permits a 75 % discount in water consumption for irrigation at 20 % of the worth of its opponents. Their IoT answer of geolocation and monitoring is 100 % cellular, has easy upkeep, and doesn’t require any IT infrastructure. Composed of revalued smartphones and sensors and different inexpensive gadgets, and a cloud software program platform developed internally.”
Chestify AI Labs from Ghana gives an AI platform that provides a extremely correct algorithm for diagnosing chest X-Ray pathologies. Two-thirds of the world’s inhabitants of over 5 billion individuals with no entry to a radiologist and radiologic diagnostic assist instruments and Chestify’s mission is to aggressively deal with the socio-economic and well being misery created by insufficient radiology Infrastructure and the presence of fewer radiologists in Africa.
Yoonema is a Senegalese social e-commerce platform that gives a frictionless, distinctive, and simplified expertise to e-buyers who want high quality merchandise and B2B gamers who supply a full world e-commerce expertise to their shoppers.
The ASIP Accelerator powered by SBC AfriTech will culminate in a web based Demo Day on S25 Might 2023 the place startup founders pitch their disruptive options to a broad viewers of media, traders, company companions, and business stakeholders.
About Startupbootcamp AfriTech
Startupbootcamp AfriTech was launched in 2017 as the primary multi-corporate-backed pan-African startup accelerator. We run world-class accelerator packages, working with among the most disruptive startups on the continent. We offer entry to our world community of company companions, traders, and mentors. For extra info go to: http://bit.ly/sbcafritech
About Africa Startup Initiative
ASIP is a program based by Moh Damush, Telecel Group CEO as a CSR exercise. ASI Program contributes in a significant strategy to the African Continent to assist younger startups whose revolutionary concepts are making a distinction of their communities, exposing them to worldwide organizations, and bridging the information and experience to permit them to draw companions that may add worth to their startups. For extra info on the ASIP, go to www.asiprogram.com
About Telecel Group
Telecel Group operates in 4 completely different strains of enterprise all below the telecom business: (1) Telecel Cell, owns and operates a number of cellular operators in Africa and Europe; (2) Telecel International Providers, gives wholesale, enterprise, and digital safety companies to telecom operators and enterprises worldwide; (3) Telecel Play, a digital platform that’s digitizing cellular customers; and (4) Africa Startup Initiative Program helps revolutionary startups in Africa and presents them funding and steering to scale and For extra info on the Telecel Group program, go to http://telecelgroup.com
About Der/FJ
Der/FJ is an establishment below the authority of the Presidency of the Republic of Senegal and it was launched by President Macky Sall in 2018 in an effort to assist entrepreneurs all through Senegal. This assist is given by each monetary and non-financial companies, with an emphasis on sectors that embrace know-how and innovation, therefore the creation of the D-hub incubator. For extra details about DER/FJ go to https://der.sn/
About FMO
FMO is the Dutch Entrepreneurial Improvement financial institution. As a number one impression investor, FMO helps sustainable non-public sector progress in creating nations and rising markets by investing in formidable initiatives and entrepreneurs. FMO believes {that a} robust non-public sector results in financial and social improvement and has a near 50-year confirmed monitor document of empowering individuals to make use of their expertise and enhance their high quality of life. FMO focuses on three sectors which have a excessive improvement impression: monetary establishments, vitality, and agribusiness, meals & water. With a dedicated portfolio of EUR 9.3 billion spanning over 85 nations, FMO is without doubt one of the bigger bilateral non-public sector improvement banks globally. For extra info: please go to www.fmo.nl