Techpoint and CcHub, in collaboration with DEMO Africa, kickstarted the Western African Tour seeing Lagos tripling the number of winning startup teams. Accounteer, E-pump and Termii emerged top of the pool other country champs in the semi-final battles for regional representatives.
Accounteer is a smart cloud accounting platform that allows SMEs to create invoices, track expenses and receive online payments. Termmi helps other businesses stay profitable by driving customer loyalty across multiple marketing channels. E-pump is a solution that allows users, usually car owners and fuel station owners, to take complete control over every equipment on the filling station. With a proprietary hardware device, they can monitors product movement and ensuring volume integrity from the depot to truck to filling station tank to pump nozzles.
In a two rounds pitch session 14 startups showcased their products in front of the judges Oluwaseun Oyinsan, a partner at Ingressive, Mayokun Fadeyibi, Head of Innovation, Sankore Investment, and Femi Iromini, CEO Lead 360 who came ready to witness Nigeria’s innovativeness.
With the level of competition the statups brought on, Oluseye Soyodeke Johnson a DEMO Africa alumni recommended to those startups that had not won to use the advice that had been shared by the judges and apply for DEMO Africa as they still have a chance to pitch in Morocco.
The Nigerian triple threat will face off winners of Ghana and Ivory Coast for a chance to represent West Africa at the launch event to be held in Morocco on the 18th and 19th of October. The successful startups in each region will automatically qualify to be part of the pool of 30 where the successful Startups will be provided with resources worth over US$150,000 including US$120,000 software tools from Microsoft and USD$15 000 from AWS that to help them build and grow their businesses.
Application for selection to the 2018 DEMO Africa cohort close on 15th July. Application is done online on the DEMOAfrica site at www.demo-africa.com
