Africa’s main tech Accelerator, Startupbootcamp AfriTech, along with anchor accomplice and main telecoms big, 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 skill 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 potential by way of 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 stated;
“We’re impressed with the work that Startupbootcamp AfriTech is doing and are excited that there have been 3 times extra Francophone founders in comparison with the earlier years. This validates the calibre of startups in Francphone international locations and likewise exhibits that their publicity to acceleration has improved. Additionally it is fantastic to see the progress that the previous Senegalese startups specifically Proxalys,Parcsmart and Yobante have made”
Anchored by telecoms big Telecel, the Africa Startup Initiative Program (ASIP) goals to help the following era of early-stage African tech startups which might be disrupting key trade verticals that embody FinTech, InsureTech, AgriTech, Local weather-tech, eCommerce, Digital Well being, and CleanTech, Mobility, Micro-leasing, and digitizing the casual financial system.
“Telecel is happy with the good effort that was put into this cohort 3 of the Telecel Group ASIP accelerator program powered by SBC AfriTech,” says Telecel Group Govt Deputy and ASIP Director Eleanor Azar. “We have now distinctive startups with progressive and positively disruptive methods of treating the African challenges that they’ve got down to remedy 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 prime of greater than 2,000 functions acquired into this system. “
Different companions embody the Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank (FMO), AWS,Freshworks, Google and Firstbase.
Individuals will obtain an intensive three-month teaching and help program to speed up their progress and advantages price US$750 000. Startups will even have entry to the worldwide Accelerator Squared platform which has a whole 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 might 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 & Submit income with a number of within the progress stage. Cohort 3 firms are constructing in over 12 verticals and now we have a 30% feminine founder ratio. It’s undoubtedly going to be 13 weeks of far-reaching progress & influence, ” he added.
We’re honored to announce that the next startups might 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, Cellular App & Whatsapp Chatbots making the providers customizable depending on the customers’ wants
PharmaServ is a Nigerian SaaS product, which automates the method of gross sales orders, monitoring gross sales workforce efficiency, and reconciling incoming buy orders, funds, and invoices for well being manufacturers. It is a labor-intensive course of that’s nonetheless predominantly guide for many native firms in rising markets.
Sodishop is a Malian market, a web based gross sales, and buy platform, current in 4 international locations in West Africa, we ship 1000’s of orders monthly 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 objects, stationery, and medical health insurance.
Limawa, whose Senegalese founder operates in Côte d’Ivoire goals to sort out the problems of meals conservation and transportation by way of solar-powered cut up air conditioners that may attain -2 °C (designed in CI by our workforce). Limawa presents an progressive and cost-efficient different to industrial compressors for the chilly chain trade. This answer is appropriate for vehicles, containers, and trailers.
Parkwell is a Nigerian on-line sharing Platform that matches drivers with obtainable, secure parking areas and helps property homeowners record 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 transport APIs to supply the identical hassle-free, clear, and trackable transport providers to their B2B retailers to allow them to develop sooner after almost a decade of constructing strong, cutting-edge freight forwarding and last-mile supply providers
Moja Ride from Côte d’Ivoire has made its mission to allow higher and cleaner mobility providers to African cities by making financing straightforward and accessible for all transportation professionals. Drivers and transport firms can simply qualify for brand spanking new automobile loans and automobile repairs by merely working with Moja Trip’s superior digital fare cost and reserving applied sciences.
SafeTrack is a Morrocan expertise startup that enables a 75 % discount in water consumption for irrigation at 20 % of the value of its rivals. 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 units, and a cloud software program platform developed internally.”
Chestify AI Labs from Ghana offers 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 help instruments and Chestify’s mission is to aggressively sort out 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 provides a frictionless, distinctive, and simplified expertise to e-buyers who need high quality merchandise and B2B gamers who supply a full international e-commerce expertise to their purchasers.
The ASIP Accelerator powered by SBC AfriTech will culminate in a web based Demo Day on S25 Could 2023 the place startup founders pitch their disruptive options to a broad viewers of media, buyers, company companions, and trade 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 applications, working with among the most disruptive startups on the continent. We offer entry to our international community of company companions, buyers, and mentors. For extra data 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 solution to the African Continent to help younger startups whose progressive concepts are making a distinction of their communities, exposing them to worldwide organizations, and bridging the data and experience to permit them to draw companions that may add worth to their startups. For extra data on the ASIP, go to www.asiprogram.com
About Telecel Group
Telecel Group operates in 4 completely different strains of enterprise all beneath the telecom trade: (1) Telecel Cellular, owns and operates a number of cellular operators in Africa and Europe; (2) Telecel International Companies, offers wholesale, enterprise, and digital safety providers to telecom operators and enterprises worldwide; (3) Telecel Play, a digital platform that’s digitizing cellular customers; and (4) Africa Startup Initiative Program helps progressive startups in Africa and presents them funding and steerage to scale and For extra data on the Telecel Group program, go to http://telecelgroup.com
About Der/FJ
Der/FJ is an establishment beneath the authority of the Presidency of the Republic of Senegal and it was launched by President Macky Sall in 2018 with a view to help entrepreneurs all through Senegal. This help is given by way of each monetary and non-financial providers, with an emphasis on sectors that embody expertise 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 Growth financial institution. As a number one influence investor, FMO helps sustainable personal sector progress in growing international locations and rising markets by investing in formidable initiatives and entrepreneurs. FMO believes {that a} sturdy personal sector results in financial and social improvement and has a near 50-year confirmed observe file of empowering individuals to make use of their abilities and enhance their high quality of life. FMO focuses on three sectors which have a excessive improvement influence: monetary establishments, vitality, and agribusiness, meals & water. With a dedicated portfolio of EUR 9.3 billion spanning over 85 international locations, FMO is among the bigger bilateral personal sector improvement banks globally. For extra data: please go to www.fmo.nl
