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News • 23 Nov 2023

Top tech start-ups vie for innovation glory at Grand Summit

By Ivor Price

Trailblazers of African tech innovation: Seydina Issa Laye Seck (Limawa, Côte D’Ivoire), Tshepiso Malema (Gamer’s Territory, South Africa), Ife Durosinmi-Etti (Herconomy, Nigeria), Mehdi Bouzouita (Viventis, Tunisia), Saad Jittou (Weego, Morocco), and Esther Hoogstad (Enlabeler.com, South Africa) unite at AfricArena Grand Summit 2023. Photos: Supplied

Cape Town is poised to witness an exhilarating battle of innovation as over 30 of Africa’s leading tech start-ups gear up to compete in the AfricArena Grand Summit 2023. The summit, hailed to host the city’s most significant deal flow room, will feature start-ups pitching in hopes of clinching the coveted title in diverse Open Innovation Challenge categories.

Organisers have unveiled an impressive line-up of start-ups representing a myriad of sectors, vying for the crown in categories such as deeptech, women in tech, seed agnostic, climatetech, agritech, fintech, and sustainable materials. The competition intensifies as each start-up aims to emerge as the overall African continental winner.

The stakes are high as the spotlight shines on finalists like Limawa, spearheading deeptech innovation from Côte d’Ivoire, and Gamer’s Territory, a South African edtech standout led by Tshepiso Malema. With names like Herconomy, Koolboks, Arable Grow, BioAge, and PharmacyMarts among the finalists, the competition promises ground-breaking solutions in femtech, agritech, and health tech.

Noteworthy entrants like IQ Pay from South Africa, Viventis from Tunisia, and Circularity from Kenya are set to redefine fintech, health tech, and climatetech landscapes, while start-ups like Lola Green, Igugu Clean Tech, and HourlyRate.ai showcase their prowess in sustainable materials, climatetech, and enterprise solutions respectively.

This showdown of innovation is not merely a local affair. Drawing from a pool of regional winners across cities including Johannesburg, New York, Cairo, Dakar, Berlin, Paris, Nairobi, and Tunis, the finalists represent the crème de la crème of African innovation, each striving to claim the coveted titles in their respective categories.

The grand finale pitch battle at the AfricArena Grand Summit 2023 promises an electrifying display of tech ingenuity, shaping the future of African innovation and heralding new advancements in technology across the continent.