Finalists
The 2022 Africa Digital Innovation Competition gathers a network of resources — technology industry experts, mentors, funds, and more — to boost fledgling startups on the continent. Applicants submitted a 2min video explaining their ideas and pitching their visions. Then, entrants were whittled down to 25 top Regional finalists, who pitched to a virtual panel of judges for a chance at the Regional Championship and a spot in the Top 10 Continental Finals. Here are our Regional Champions and Continental Finalists who would be advancing to the next phase of the competition
Competition overview
SkyVue Solutions
Category: Fintech and Cyber Solutions
Central Africa Regional Champion and Continental Finalist from Cameroon
SkyVue Solutions is a full-service solution for capturing data, processing it and providing reliable information to project owners.
GrowAgric Limited
Category: Sustainability & Supply Chain Solutions
East Africa Regional Champion and Continental Finalist from Kenya
GrowAgric Limited is a ‘Farmers First’ AgTech whose platform empowers small and medium-scale farms to farm better and to earn better.
VAIS
Category: Sustainability & Supply Chain Solutions
North Africa Regional Champion and Continental Finalist from Egypt
VAIS provides irrigation intelligence and crop analytics products based on their ground-breaking Virtual Field Probing (VFP) technology in order to help farmers in Egypt and Africa address challenges related to water scarcity and climate change and reduce their costs by at least 20%.
Farmhut Africa
Category: Sustainability & Supply Chain Solutions
Southern Africa Regional Champion and Continental Finalist from Zimbabwe
Farmhut Africa is an AgTech Company simplifying the value chain for small-scale farmers by providing logistics, market aggregation, and information on demand with a vision to increase household income and productivity whilst reducing post-harvest losses.
Healthbotics Limited
Category: Human Development & Social Services Solutions
West Africa Regional Champion and Continental Finalist from Nigeria
Healthbotics Limited's solution, Lend an Arm provides 360-degree medical logistics to health facilities in the last mile. It is a medical delivery service powered by a mobile application and 24/7 call center which serve as a single access point connecting health facilities to suppliers and manufacturers of essential medical supplies - blood, drugs, oxygen, medical devices and consumables - at the push of a button, simplifying health facilities' procurement, and allowing them operate a cost-efficient, just-in-time method of inventory management, with additional guarantee of healthy credit.
Traderex Ghana Limited
Category: Sustainability & Supply Chain Solutions
Continental Finalist from Ghana
Traderex is uplifting smallholder farmers and their communities by elevating their production and boosting trade of their commodities by connecting them to the wider international markets through brokerage services on formalized exchanges."
Shopa
Category: Sustainability & Supply Chain Solutions
Continental Finalist from Ghana
Shopa is a B2B E-commerce business and embedded financial services application for informal groceries store, to allow them to source inventory directly from manufacturers or suppliers on cash or credit and get delivered within 1-4 hours at their doorstep.
Grant Master
Category: Fintech and Cyber Solutions
Continental Finalist from Nigeria
Grant Master is an online marketplace that connects impact-driven organizations in need of grants with vetted expert grant writers and grant opportunities.
Valley Bee
Category: Sustainability & Supply Chain Solutions
Continental Finalist from Nigeria
Valley Bee is a Smart Hive-making company, leveraging the power of tech to design and manufacture sensor-enabled beehives that help farmers monitor their bees remotely. At Valley Bee, we train local African farmers on sustainable apiculture and engage them as customers of our smart hive. Valley Hive is a smart and eco-friendly beehive designed to mimic nature and encourage high honey production from bees. Valley Hive is made out of recycled plastic drums and wood, and automatically adjusts its atmospheric conditions (temperature, humidity, and heat index) to suit the optimal requirement for honey production, and has the ability to store the data collected for analysis for further improvement.
Kotani Pay
Category: Fintech and Cyber Solutions
Continental Finalist from Kenya
Kotani Payis a technology stack that enables blockchain protocols, dapps, and blockchain fintech companies to integrate seamlessly into local payment channels providing them with a reliable on-ramp and off-ramp service to reach a wider customer base in Africa.