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TechInAfrica – Google will host the next cohort of Launchpad Accelerator in Africa, Brazil, and India. The selected startups from each country and region will be supported financially and connected with the startup ecosystem from around the world.
As representatives of Africa, twelve startups from six African countries have been chosen for the 3rd class by Google, including:
- 54Gene , Nigeria: Improving drug discovery by researching the genetically diverse African population
- Data Integrated Limited, Kenya: Automating and digitizing SME payments, connecting the street to high finance.
- Instadiet.me, Egypt: Connecting patients to credible nutritionists and dietitians to help them maintain a healthy and optimal weight online.
- Kwara, Kenya: Providing a rich digital banking platform to established fair lenders such as credit unions or savings and credit cooperatives (SACCOs), with an open API to enable and accelerate their inclusion into the formal financial ecosystem.
- OkHi, Kenya: A physical addressing platform for emerging markets – on a mission to enable the billions without a physical address to “be included.”
- PAPS Senegal: Logistics startup focused on last mile delivery and domestic market, with strong client care orientation, allowing live tracking, intelligent address system, and automatic dispatch.
- ScholarX, Nigeria: Connecting high potential students with funding opportunities to help them access an education
- Swipe2pay, Uganda: A web and mobile payments solution that democratizes electronic payments for SMEs by making it easy for them to accept mobile as a mode of payment.
- Tambua Health Inc., Kenya: Turning a normal smartphone into a powerful, non-invasive diagnostic tool for Tuberculosis and Pneumonia. It uses a cough sound acoustic signature, symptoms, risk factors, and clinical information to come up with a diagnostic report.
- Voyc.ai, South Africa: A CX Research platform that helps companies understand their customers by turning their customer research into insights, profiles, and customer journey maps.
- WellaHealth, Nigeria: A pharmacy marketplace for affordable, high-quality disease care driven by artificial intelligence starting with malaria.
- Zelda Learning, South Africa: Providing free online career guidance for students looking to enter university and linking them to funding and study opportunities.
These 12 African startups selected among around a thousand applicants in Africa, Brazil, and India cohorts. The application for the 3rd class of Google’s Launchpad Accelerator Africa was closed on January 13th.
All the selected startups will receive an intensive mentoring from more than 20 teams of Google engineers, access to Silicon Valley experts and top local mentors, as well as the opportunity to collaborate with Google for about three months.
