Seedstars Senegal winner, Cameroon finalists
MaTontine provides access to small loans and related financial services like micro-insurance by digitizing traditional savings circles.
Runners-up
Bayseddo, a platform that allows farmers to finance their crop year, came second and PayDunya, a one-stop shop to create, manage, and grow sales on social networks and get paid from all relevant payment methods in Africa with CRM toolbox, grabbed the last spot in the top three. The other startups invited to pitch were ADN Africa, Direct Solution, Sika Technologie, Sanar Soft, Skillake, Carvi Writer.
Cameroon finalists
On 29 September 2017, 11 of Cameroon's most promising seed-stage startups will compete to represent the country at the regional and global Seedstars summits.
- Allodoc: Allodoc is a web and mobile application linking health professionals and the population in need of care and promotes preventive medicine.
- Bridge Africa Ventures: Whether you have access to the internet or not, Bridgeafrica.com can help you create websites, access databases, and network.
- Cloomify: Cloomify is an easy way to discover the world and be everywhere at the same time, even without internet.
- Drone Africa: intelligent drones in central Africa to reduce mapping cost and improve local security.
- GiftedMom: GiftedMom is democratising health information access in emerging markets through an AI-based remote medical support platform.
- Guanxi Investment: Guanxi is a platform which enables entrepreneurs in Africa to be smartly visible online and raise funds for their activities.
- iDjangui: iDangui is trying to bridge traditional finance and modern financial institutions in Africa; bringing light on the grey economy.
- MyExpressTicket: MyExpress Ticket built an intra-urban bus booking platform to revolutionize the entire transport industry in Cameroon.
- Ratagrab: A fast food delivery platform in Cameroon.
- VIKI: VIKI AI generates leads from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn posts activities.
- Save Our Agriculture: Save our Agriculture conceives and makes urban aquaponics units to help small rural producers cope with logistics problems that make food overtly expensive in retail markets.