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Winners have emerged in the 2022-2023 Global Startup Awards (GSA) Africa (West Africa) held at the launch edition of GITEX Africa 2023 in Marrakech,
Morocco.
The fourteen startups that won this year’s competition are from Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire, Gambia, Senegal, and Benin. Nigerian startups topped the list by securing six slots at this year’s competition.
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Eight (8) startup businesses have emerged winners of the 2023 Gitex Pitch Competition, Lagos Roadshow edition, which was held at the Eko Innovation Centre, Ikoyi on May 12, 2023.
The winners at the Lagos Roadshow Event are Pocket Food; Fuspay Technologies; Byte; Africa Comicade, Get Equity; Alajo; Instant Rad, and Dataleum.
Winners have emerged in the 2023 DealMakers Africa Annual Gala Awards held at Villa Rosa Kempinski in Nairobi, Kenya on 14 March 2023.
Overall, West Africa continued to dominate with the highest deal value of mergers and acquisitions at US$3.29 billion, with Nigeria the centre of activity with 135 deals. It was followed by East Africa, which recorded deal value in aggregate of $2.88 billion.
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Daniel Oseni has emerged overall winner of the 2023 Savvy Prize for Impact-Driven Entrepreneurs for his natural cooling system that preserves and stores tomatoes for up to 3 to 4 months without getting spoilt.
This Prize, running for its second year, seeks to recognize and support the efforts of Savvy Fellows working to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems through innovative and sustainable ways. This year’s Prize comes with a lot of benefits including up to $3,000 in cash prizes, product development support, and marketing endeavors.
Nigeria’s agritech company, ThriveAgric, has been selected among the winners of the 2022 AYuTe Agritech Africa Challenge that supports agritech innovators alongside Kenya’s DigiCow and Botwana-based Brastorne Enterprises.
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Winners have emerged in the 2022 NGX Made of Africa Awards (NGX MOA Awards) hosted by the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX or The Exchange).
The awards is in recognition of innovativeness and compliance with best practices in the Nigerian capital market for the calendar year.
The Awards ceremony, which took place in Lagos on 6 December 2022, spotlighted excellence, creativity and integrity as NGX sought to amplify the activities of its stakeholders to further reinforce the values that attract investors to the market and grow the African economy. Players in the capital market ranging from Issuers, Securities Dealers, Issuing Houses, Fund Managers, Trustees, Legal firms and stakeholders including the media and content creators were rewarded for their contributions to the development of the market.
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ThriveAgric, an innovative Nigerian start-up that is promoting the use of technology to transform the payments landscape for the agricultural sector, has emerged winner of the 2022 Visa Everywhere Initiative (VEI) – a global open innovation program and competition for start-ups and fintech companies.
Visa Everywhere Initiative is an open innovation program that helps start-ups unlock new opportunities and gives them a global platform to demonstrate their ground-breaking solutions.
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