Tech giant, Google has disclosed the names of the 12 startups selected for the third cohort of its Launchpad Africa accelerator, based in Lagos. They include four startups from Kenya, three from Nigeria, two from South Africa and one each from Uganda, Senegal and Egypt.
The names of the startups were revealed in a blog post by Google Developers, in which the tech giant also revealed the names of those startups selected for its Brazil and India accelerators.
Google said its team reviewed over 1000 applications in all for its Africa, Brazil and India cohorts. Applications for the Launchpad Accelerator Africa 3 cohort closed on 13 January.
For its Africa programme, Google has selected 12 startups from six African countries. They are:
- 54Gene (Nigeria): Improves drug discovery by researching the genetically diverse African population.
- Data Integrated Limited (Kenya): Automates and digitises SME payments, connecting the street to high finance.
- Instadiet.me (Egypt): Connects patients to credible nutritionists and dietitians to help them maintain a healthy and optimal weight online.
- Kwara (Kenya): Provides a rich digital banking platform to established fair lenders such as credit unions or savings and credit cooperatives, with an open API to enable and accelerate their inclusion into the formal financial system.
- 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 addresses system and automatic dispatch.
- ScholarX (Nigeria): Connects high potential students with funding opportunities to help them access an education
- Swipe2pay (Uganda): A web and mobile payments solution that democratises electronic payments for SMEs by making it easy for them to accept mobile as a mode of payment.
- Tambua Health Inc (Kenya): Turns 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): Provides free online career guidance for students looking to enter university and linking them to funding and study opportunities.
