Top 30 Startup finalists announced for DEMO Africa 2018 in Casablanca

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The 7th edition of DEMO Africa will be held on October 18-19, 2018. The selected startups will participate in a venture creation bootcamp and present to an audience of global investors and technology luminaries.

Following a few months of innovation roadshows, city tours, and virtual adjudication, the management team of DEMO Africa announced the selection of 30 startup finalists for the 2018 edition of the annual conference.

All roads lead to Casablanca in October as the finalists present their technologies to the world at the 7th edition of DEMO Africa. The selected startups represent Africa’s current generation of innovators and problem solvers, and are poised to showcase the best African ingenuity through technology, entrepreneurship, and social impact at Le Studio Arts Vivants in Casablanca.

Meet the finalists

Accounteer (Nigeria) – Accounteer is a cloud-based accounting platform that allows SMEs to create invoices, track expenses, and receive online payments
ADN Corp (Senegal) – ADN is a building applications to help African companies to improve their sales, marketing, and finance operations with decision support analytics systems.
Atlan Space (Morocco) – Atlan Space is an Artificial Intelligence based drone technology that tracks illegal fishing in African waters
Brayfoil Technologies (South Africa) – Brayfoil is a patented wing design that is a first in aerodynamic engineering. The technology allows planes to take off in shorter distance, fly further, and faster on less fuel, and improves safety by a massive margin.
Casky (Morocco) – Casky is the world’s first blockchain-based, Artificial Intelligence platform that offers users a chance to earn an appreciative asset/income by driving safety via a rewards based system.
Chefaa Medicine Delivery (Egypt) – Chefaa Medicine Delivery is a mobile medical application that allows users to order, refill and receive prescriptions seamlessly
Cloud9XP (Kenya) – Cloud9xp.com is a web and mobile platform where experience providers list their leisure experiences for exposure, and manage bookings across travel categories and styles.
Complete Farmer (Ghana) – An application that provides remarkable and innovative agribusiness solutions that enhance productivity, increase profitability, and amplify competitive advantages across the agricultural value chain.
Dabchy (Tunisia) – Dabchy is a fashion e-commerce marketplace for the Arab world
Devless (Ghana) – Devless is a simplified data repository for DevOps environments
Hawker (Tunisia) – Hawkar is a smart electric car for physically handicapped persons
Zuoix (Cameroon) – ZOOMED (Zuoix Object Oriented Motor Electronic Device) is an SMS-based car security system that does not require any form of internet connectivity to locate, immobilize, and geofence a car
Kourtim (Morocco) – Kourtim is a logistics management system that provides real-time monitoring to all the stages of road freights transport
Lula (South Africa) – Lula is a Mobility-as-a-Service platform that connects stakeholders across cities, municipalities, and countries
Maurice Communications (Cote D’Ivoire) – A wearable technology company that provides health-tech solutions targeted towards emergency response, data collection, and information dissemination for medical and emergency personnel
Moldiag (Morocco) – Moldiag is an R&D spin-off of the leading research lab that is focused on superior medical diagnostics
Niotek (Egypt) – Niotek is an Artificial Intelligence platform that enable implementation of Smart Factories, Smart Products, and Smart Services
QualiTrace (Ghana) – QualiTrace provides trace-ability and anti-counterfeiting solutions to the prevalence of fake products on the market
Redbird (Ghana) – Redbird partners with local pharmacies to provide rapid test technology for chronic and acute conditions, enabling them to expand their business, and giving patients a convenient way to monitor their health, wherever they are
Regenize (South Africa) – Regenize is a recycling collections company which rewards people for recycling and also educates them about the benefits of recycling
Smarth (Algeria) – Smarth provides innovative analytical and predictive solutions for any problem involving massive amounts of data
Sote (Kenya) – Sote is an information logistics platform built to integrate an array of logistics services across the continent to form a single supply web.
Tempest Gold (Botswana) – The Tempest Gold app allows users to search for properties, connect directly with the buyer/seller and eliminate middlemen
Termii (Nigeria) –  Termii helps businesses stay profitable by driving customer loyalty across multiple marketing channels
Toufoula (Tunisia) – Toufoula Kids is a multi-language Ludo-educational platform offered in Arabic, French, and English for young children. The mobile app is linked to smart printed magazine by Augmented Reality with the aim of reducing children’s addiction to screens.
Travelbudds (France) – Travelbudds is the social network for young, mobile, connected, travel lovers looking for the most authentic ways to discover the world and share their experiences
VertoFX (London) – Verto is a decentralized, business to business currency liquidity provider and price discovery marketplace.
Voxera (Egypt) – VoxERA is a revolutionary device that provides travelers with a mobile roaming service that is similar to telecoms but at much lower prices
WeflyAgri (Cote D’Ivoire) – A drone-based agritech solution that helps farmers to remotely monitor their farms and identify inefficiencies in production for better management of their land
Zipora (Kenya) – Zipora is a smart luggage innovation with a patent-pending zipper that is breach proof, and a security device that makes any zipped luggage smart. The smart device comes with a GPS tracker, a tensioner, and vibration sensor to monitor luggage handling and breach attempts

 

The Bootcamp

The thirty startup finalists will also participate in six week bootcamp in preparation for stakeholder engagements at the main event, as well as a two day physical bootcamp as a preamble to the DEMO Africa 2018 showcase.

The Innovation Tour

Five finalists will be selected from the pitching startups to participate in the 2019 edition of the Lions@Africa Innovation Tour in Silicon Valley. These DEMO Ambassadors will be the startups that show the highest potential for scaling across pan-African and international markets, with a mature understanding of their product-market fit, a great team, and a defensible and commercially viable technology.

Global Innovation Luminaries and Investors

From Europe to the Middle East to Asia to Silicon Valley, the DEMO Africa event will also welcome global investors and luminaries in addition to African venture capitalists, business angels, and ecosystem leaders over two days of quality interactions, networking, and deal making through leadership round-tables hosted by the African Business Angels Network.

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