The Seedstars World team this week heads off to Douala for the Cameroon leg of its world tour, where 11 of Cameroon’s most promising seed-stage startups will pitch for an opportunity to represent the country at the regional and global Seedstars Summits.
The 11 startups, which were announced yesterday (Monday 25 September) after a pre-selection round, will pitch in front of an investment panel on Friday (29 September) at ActivSpaces in Douala.
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Seedstars Douala 2017 will take place on Friday 29 September
The winning startup will take part in the regional and global Seedstars Summits and will get to participate in a week-long boot camp and investor forum.
In addition, towards the end of the summit, the winner will get an opportunity to pitch for up to $1-million in equity investment and other prizes.
Here are the 11:
Allodoc: This web and mobile application links health professionals and the population in need of care. It also promotes preventive medicine.
Bridge Africa Ventures: This communication platform, which works on- and offline, is aimed at businesses and allows users to create websites, access databases, and network through text messaging.
Cloomify: This city guide app works even when you do not have an internet connection.
Drone Africa: Drone Africa aims to develop intelligent drones that will reduce mapping costs and improve security in Africa.
GiftedMom: This startup develops last-mile mobile health solutions to increase maternal engagement. GiftedMom also aims to democratise health information access in emerging markets through an artificial intelligence-based remote medical support platform.
Guanxi Investment: Guanxi is a crowdfunding platform which enables entrepreneurs in Africa to find investors for their projects.
iDjangui: iDjangui aims to bridge traditional finance and modern financial institutions in Africa.
MyExpressTicket: MyExpressTicket has developed an intra-urban real-time bus booking platform.
Ratagrab: Ratagrab is a fast food delivery platform in Cameroon.
VIKI: VIKI is an artificial intelligence-based virtual sales assistant which generates leads from social media and automates engagement.
Save Our Agriculture: This agritech startup combines aquaculture (fish farming) with hydroponics to take on logistics problems faced by small rural producers.
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