Market Mergers Ltd., developers of MERGIMS, has emerged as the winner of the SeedStars Competition in Rwanda. In SeedStarsKigali, which took place yesterday, Tega Holdings and SafeMotos emerged as the first runner up and second runner up respectively.
MERGIMS is a mobile application that connects migrants back to merchants in their countries of origin so they can buy goods for relatives home.
Other startups that took part in the competition include Asuqu, Yubeyi, Lycamedia, Grocewheels, Cartoon Home Network, istayconnected, and mTiba
The jury for the competition included Paul Soko, Sara Leedom, Gregory Pepper, Anneke Evers, Patrick Kabagema and Clement Uwageneza
Market Mergers will now join other African winners like Airshop (Cote D’Voire), Asoriba (Ghana), MyQ (Nigeria) in the global finals where the overall winner will win US$500,000.
The next African stop for the SeedStars train is Kampala, Uganda on the 11th of September, 2015
