20 startups have been selected as part of the 5th edition of Google for Startups Accelerator Africa Program.
One of the startups is a Tunisian blockchain-based fintech called Kaoum.
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Formerly, the Google Launchpad Accelerator Programme, the initiative, which launched in 2018, has worked with 47 startups across 17 African countries during the last four editions.
The 3-month programme includes:
- Equity-free support
- Access to Google engineers and intensive mentoring from 20+ teams
- Access to Silicon Valley experts and top local mentors
- PR training and global media opportunities
- Close partnership with Google for three months (new classes are accepted twice a year)
Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the 2020 programme has been moved online and startups will be required to participate remote from June 29th – September 11th, 2020.
Below is a list of the 20 startups selected for the programme:
- Adi+Bolga (Ghana) – A Ghanaian health startup offering virtual skincare consultations and accurate personalized product recommendations to consumers
- AmiTruc (Kenya) – A logistics platform seeking to bring trust, transparency and efficiency to logistics by using technology to connect cargo owners and transporters in Kenya
- Beamm (South Africa) – A South African media startup enabling users make Hollywood style CGI and VFX videos with ease
- BuuPass (Kenya) – A transport startup working with transport operators to provide digital solutions that seamlessly facilitate convenient and reliable movement of commuters in Kenya
- CredPal (Nigeria) – Nigerian fintech startup developing consumer credit infrastructure to ease consumer credit purchase, and enable retail businesses to provide on-demand credit for consumers in Africa
- Curacel (Nigeria) – A Nigerian Claims & Fraud Detection Platform for African Insurers
- Crediation (Kenya) – Kenyan fintech startup empowering tech startups to lend to their customers via APIs and a dashboard to allow its partners access funds for lending and process loans
- Crop2Cash (Nigeria) – An offline accessible platform for farmers making it possible for them to pay, get paid, access agricultural credit via USSD while assuring financial institutions of their lending capital in Nigeria
- Franc (South Africa) – A South African investment app that helps first time investors realise their dreams by providing access to the best cash and equity funds without minimums or restrictions
- Ilara Health (Kenya) – A Kenyan SaaS healthtech service bringing essential diagnostic support and impactful software products to patients and providers across peri-urban sub-Saharan Africa who currently are unable to access these basic life-saving tools
- Judy (Nigeria) – Nigerian legal startup offering a smart, comprehensive database of African case law and legislation
- Kaoun (Tunisia) – A Tunisian blockchain-based fintech enabling unbanked and underbanked individuals and businesses access to financial services through identification, payment and credit solutions
- Thumeza (Zimbabwe) – A next-generation logistics platform utilizing data in order to optimize the logistics function for enterprises in Zimbabwe
- UzaPoint (Kenya) – A Kenyan enterprise retail planning tool and platform that enhances the efficiency, profitability and business intelligence of small scale businesses
- ZayRide (Ethiopia) – A transport service providing reliable, timely, and safe cab services using technologically enabled dispatch systems and integrated mobile money systems for payment
- Zuka Data Science (Kenya) – A Kenyan edtech blended learning platform with engaging Data Science programs designed by experts to enable individuals and organisations at all levels become Data Fluent
Kaoun has built Flouci, a payment solution that offers e-KYC, mobile payments and credit solutions built with distributed ledger technology. Flouci is a mobile wallet that allows merchant payments, cash in/cash out operations, peer to peer transfers, and domestic remittances especially designed to reach those currently excluded from formal financial institutions.
For the already banked population, it offers a more reliable and convenient suite of financial services.
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