Medsaf, a medication platform that connects pharmacies and hospitals with safe and cost-effective medications, is the startup selected to represent Nigeria at the Seedstars Africa pitching competition to be held in Maputo, Mozambique on December 14, 2017.
According to the organizers, Medsaf will be joining other African startups that will participating at the third annual Seedstars Africa Summit that connects the most relevant players in innovation and technology in Africa with the world and between each other.
Throughout the year, organizers hosted competitions in 20 Africa countries to explore the local ecosystems and scout the most promising tech startups in each market. Seedstars World said it is now bringing together these entrepreneurs together with ecosystem players, mentors, investors and corporates from across the African continent.
“During 2017 we got to witness growing ecosystems, better startups and more involvement from public and private partners. We are very excited to be able to bring the entire network together in Mozambique in December and together look into some of the opportunities of the continent and explore how technologies can rapidly improve the current status quo in emerging markets worldwide.” says Claudia Makadristo, Regional Manager for Africa.
Africa Regional Summit will last for 3 days and bring together over 500 attendees commencing with a bootcamp for the participating startups, an ecosystem tour, an investor day and culminate with a Conference on December 14th, featuring the startup pitches, keynote speakers, and panel discussions that will support a range of topics and ideas pertinent to entrepreneurs in the region.
The event is hosted by local ambassador. UX Information Technologies. The main sponsor of the event is Standard Bank. Other partners include both local and international organisations such as: Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, UNFPA, Merck, Enel , TRECC, Microsoft, Orange, GSMA and VC4A amongst many others.
“The Standard Bank Group is immensely proud to be associated with the Seedstars Africa Regional Summit and it’s objective of selecting the best tech startups from across the African continent to showcase their businesses in front of a global audience of partners, ambassadors, ecosystem players and investors. This aligns to our purpose of ‘Africa is our home and we drive her growth’. We look forward as an organisation with a vested interest in entrepreneurs, to supporting the event in Maputo and showcasing the diversity, and talent that Africa has to offer.” Says Sasha Vieira, Head of Incubator from Standard Bank Mozambique.
“We are very honored to host the 3rd edition of Seedstars Regional Summit in Africa, following the steps of Morocco and Rwanda, and finally bringing the Summit to Maputo. The Seedstars network is very solution oriented and we believe the Regional Summit is the perfect environment to bring together the best startups on the continent to exchange experiences from our individual markets and brainstorm truly applicable solutions for problems facing emerging markets, both on the continent and globally. says Tiago Borges Coelho, Co-Founder of UX, local Ambassadors to Seedstars.
