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Four Kenyan startups selected for Google mentorship training

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March 19, 2019
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Kwara, which provides a rich digital banking platform to established fair lenders such as credit unions or savings and credit cooperatives (SACCOs), is among those selected by Google.Pic Photo Courtesy

Four Kenyan startups selected for Google mentorship training

Selected firms will receive Cloud and Firebase Credits, three weeks all-expense-paid training at Launchpad Accelerator Africa, access to Google engineers, resources, and mentors, during and after the program

Four Kenyan startups are among 12 firms selected for Google’s third Launchpad Accelerator Africa class as part of its ongoing efforts to support entrepreneurship on the continent.

This third class, which starts on April 1, involves 12 startups from six African countries – Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda. Of these 12 startups, 6 have female co-founders and 9 are either AI-enabled or have AI potential.

“These companies will join other startups in the Launchpad programme, present and past, that are using technology to create a positive impact on key industries in their region. We look forward to supporting and connecting them with startup ecosystems around the world,” says Fola Olatunji-David, Google’s head of Startup Success and Services, Launchpad Africa.

The 12 startups, in alphabetical order, are:

  • 54Gene(Nigeria): Improves drug discovery by researching multiple genetically diverse African populations.
  • 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 online to help them maintain a healthy and optimal weight.
  • Kwara(Kenya): Provides 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 that is on a mission to enable the 4 billion without a physical address to “be included”.
  • PAPS(Senegal): A logistics startup with a strong client-care orientation, focused on last mile delivery in the domestic market that features live tracking, an intelligent address system and automatic dispatch.
  • ScholarX(Nigeria): An education startup that connects high potential students with funding opportunities to help them advance in their studies.
  • Tambua Health Inc.(Kenya): The Tambua App 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): Voyc.ai’s CX Research Platform helps companies understand their customers by turning their customer research into insights, personas and customer journey maps.
  • WellaHealth(Nigeria): A pharmacy marketplace for affordable high quality disease-care (such as malaria treatment) driven by artificial intelligence.
  • Zelda Learning(South Africa): Provides free online career guidance for students looking to enter university and then links them to funding and study opportunities.

Each selected startup will receive three months of intense mentorship and support from Google, Cloud and Firebase Credits, three weeks all-expense-paid training at Launchpad Accelerator Africa (Lagos and Nairobi), access to Google engineers, resources, and mentors, during and after the programme and inclusion in the Launchpad Accelerator Global Community and network of alumni and mentors

To be accepted into Launchpad Accelerator Africa, applicants must be an early stage technology startup based in Sub-Saharan Africa, targeting the African market, that has already raised seed funding. Google additionally considers the problem the startup is trying to solve, how it creates value for users and how it addresses a real challenge for their home city, country or Africa broadly. Further, Google looks at whether the startup will share what they will learn from the programme for the benefit of other startups in their local ecosystem.

First announced in July 2017, Launchpad Accelerator Africa forms an important part of Google’s initiatives that support the African entrepreneurial ecosystem and builds on the Launchpad programmes already run in Africa, which have successfully connected over 200 African mentors with several hundred African tech startup entrepreneurs through one-week bootcamps in three different African cities over the last two years.

In addition, Google’s global accelerator programme, Launchpad Accelerator, has already enrolled seven African startups (Twiga Foods, JUMO, Paystack, Delivery Science, Helium Health, Paylater and Aerobotics) and provided them with visibility, best-in-class mentorship and access to Google’s network in Silicon Valley.

Through its Google for Entrepreneurs programme, Google actively supports tech hubs across Africa (and has been doing so for years), with hubs in Lagos, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda.

On the ground, Google has expanded its Africa digital skills training programme to prepare 10 million people and businesses for the jobs of the future in the next five years. Additionally, Google announced US$20 million in grant funding from Google.org in 2017, which will go to startups that work to improve lives across Africa.

Twenty three startups have already graduated from the first two Launchpad Accelerator Africa classes and the programme has so far helped the participating startups to create jobs and, collectively, raise millions of dollars in funding.

Source:https://businesstoday.co.ke/

 

 

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