Thirty-one startups from across Africa have been selected for the Smart Cities Innovation Programme (SCIP).
The 31 startups were selected out of more than 300 innovators that responded to the call for applications issued from April to May. The selected startups are grouped in three tracks addressing common topics of smart cities: Cleantech & Smart Housing, Smart Mobility and Fintech for Affordability.
The selected start-ups across each track are:
Cleantech & Smart Housing track
Scrapays (Nigeria); Koolboks (Nigeria); Urbany Africa (Rwanda); Gas360 (Nigeria); Dove Air (South Africa); EcoPlastile (Uganda); and Messibat (Ivory Coast).
The Smart Mobility track
Kiri EV (Kenya); Mazi Mobility (Kenya); Digital Blind Walking Stick (Rwanda); Instadriver (Kenya); Optimalogistic (Tunisia); Gura Universal Link (Rwanda); BasiGo (Kenya); Smatbeba (Kenya); Transport for Cairo (Egypt); EWarren Financial Services (Côte d’Ivoire / Canada); e-safiri (Kenya); Tuverl (Zimbabwe / Kenya); KaCyber Security Tech (Uganda); Expendo! (Kenya;) and STES Group Limited (Rwanda).
Fintech for Affordability track
Angle Dimension (Malawi, Zambia Botswana); Cladfy (Kenya); Cofundie (Ghana & Nigeria); Digiduka (Kenya); Flow (Uganda); Insure Pay (Zambia); Mopay (Rwanda); Naa Sika Micro Savings (Ghana); and Payclide (Uganda).
These startups will receive six months of holistic support including virtual and physical training, individual coaching and mentoring from seasoned experts.
Furthermore, they get access to the Smart Cities Innovation Programmes corporate and public partners as well as investors, allowing for extensive networking and matchmaking. Over the course of the programme, startups and partners will build long-lasting relationships to grow each start-up and jointly build Africa’s urban future.
The Smart Cities Innovation Programme is part of the Special Initiative on Training and Job Creation – also operating under the brand Invest for Jobs – and the Tech-Entrepreneurship Initiative “Make-IT in Africa” implemented by GIZ on behalf of BMZ.
The Programme’s implementation is supported by Luvent Consulting, Afrilabs and MEST.
