Peachwater Consulting Nigeria has won the 2018 Startup.Info ENGIE Start-up of the Year award. Peachwater ‘s power stove, a clean cookstove that generates electricity with less biomass fuel was the source of this award.
Peachwater Consulting was given the Engie Start-Up of the Year award after impressing judges at the awards ceremony in Casablanca. Peachwater was founded by Okey Ibekwe Esse.
Startup.Info was founded with an objective of promoting startups. Startup.info organized the second edition of the competition with a helping hand from major International Organizations partners like OCP, QWANT, PwC, ENGIE, Labs-NS-Avocats, Royal Air Maroc, Growth Experts, Halmarcon Group and more than 70 media ecosystem partners.
The winners of the competition receive prizes ranging from 10,000 Euros Visibility Pack to 10,000 Euros in cash. This is in addition to other prizes given by the Startup.Info and its partners.
Other winners include the 2018 startup of the year award, HydroIQ – a Kenyan Virtual Water Network Operator. The QWANT public choice award was awarded to Ecodome – a Moroccan startup that deals with the production of eco-touristic domed housing from natural soils.
Semoa, a French company, was awarded an African Diaspora award presented by RAM for its sole role in recommending E-commerce in Africa. Other special awards were also given out; France’s Thea, which is an app that connects patients to doctors won the Holmarcon’s special award. Priyo, which is a South African Startup won PwC jury award for developing a portable and smart digital solar computer lab.
The Community Manager of the Year was won by Project Alpha, a Madagascan event agency founded by Muriel Randriamasimanana. The firm focuses on video games and e-sport phenomena.
More than 600 start-ups from 52 different countries took part in the process this year. There were over 12, 000 online votes gathered, and 41 million people reached on social media.
According to the organiser:
“After the success of the first edition of Startup of the year Africa, the collaborative startup magazine Startup.Info continues its engagement in the support of African innovation.
With the support of major international groups such as OCP, Engie, Qwant, Finance Innovation, PwC, Labs-NS-Avocats, Holmarcom Group, Royal Air Maroc, Growth Experts, as well as 70 media and ecosystem partners, Startup.Info launched the 2nd edition of the contest ‘Startup of the year Africa’.”
Startup.Info started in 2011 by Kossi Adzo, a software engineer.
