94 Innovations is working to solve the issue of poor financial discipline in South Africa using The Safe Account, a mobile wallet that uses virtual pockets to limit the use of funds according to their intended function, for example groceries and transport. The app will help economically marginalised groups gain control over their spending and reach a point where they can experience financial freedom.

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Agelvipa combines ecommerce and women empowerment in Namibia by providing an online marketplace for local products produced by micro and informal vendors. This platform exposes their products and services to the wider market and sells their products on their behalf. In addition to this, Agelvipa provides capacity building such as business management training, business coaching, and mentorship to female micro vendors via an online platform called the Virtual Women Entrepreneurs’ Hub.

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Anathoth Solutions offers a retractable backpack umbrella designed for people requiring crutches or wheelchairs to protect them from the rain or harmful UV rays. Ultimately, the backpack’s straps will contain a mechanism that allows users to open the umbrella, adjust its height to their preference, and close and retract the umbrella back into the backpack. This will provide people requiring crutches or wheelchairs with a solution that keeps them mobile even in bad weather, without resorting to solutions that are too challenging or demeaning to use.

Aquatech Solutions is involved in the business of water quality monitoring. Their systems allow industrial clients such as breweries, mines, food processing plants, and more to monitor the quality of water used in their processes and effluent discharge in real time. They can access this information via a desktop app mobile app, or even in the form of SMS alerts. This new approach improves the accuracy of readings and cuts down on time taken to apply remedial measures.

Coachpedia is an online learning community for individuals who want to learn from educational videos, ebooks, audiobooks, and from experts in different subjects. The platform allows users to gain 21st-century skills by accessing accredited and non-accredited courses online. Coachpedia also bridges the labour gap in Namibia by creating a marketplace for knowledge and making the relevant data available to stakeholders.

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Connect Africa is a mobile-and-web-format stand-alone application that could serve hearing and visually impaired people in Africa. The app provides amongst others services such as visual guidance support for visually impaired individuals, online sign language interpreters, and an emergency contact database that recognises both key tapping and voice inputs when the user needs emergency services. 

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Dawa Health is a weekly advisory application for expecting mothers accessible via mobile phones. The platform, DawaMom, works together with a self-monitoring kit that empowers mothers to receive remote and self-monitoring maternal health services. With the DawaMom app, mothers can monitor medical parameters like blood pressure, urinary tract infections, sugar levels, and other pregnancy complications. The information is wired to a doctor remotely, and mothers receive a remote diagnosis.

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Doctors E-Consult is a doctor–patient consultation room on your phone or computer that allows you to make bookings instantly. Their mobile application houses doctors from all over Botswana, ranging from general practitioners to cardiologists and other specialists, and patients can book virtual appointments with their preferred doctor. Consultations are done by live video or messenger chats. After the consultation, users can order medication on the platform as pharmacies are also connected. The mobile app also offers health tips, e-prescriptions, e-referrals, and an emergency service with doctors on call 24/7, where patients can receive instant care and medication.

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First-Aid Counselling is an award-winning digital mental health platform that helps people access counselling services instantly and conveniently. Its services include educational and counselling content, community interaction with others who have similar experiences, mental health self-assessments, quotes aimed at motivating and empowering users from time to time, and Tele-Counselling which enables users to speak to professionals within minutes.

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Huduma Smart trains domestic workers and provides a safe job market for them via their online platform. Employers are able to recruit workers of their choice according to the qualifications they requested. Huduma Smart then provides domestic workers with an enrollment and identification platform, practical and soft skills training, health insurance, and wage lobbying (using their pricing algorithm that matches wages relative to job tasks). They also enforce domestic workers’ labour laws and rights against physical, sexual, and psychological violence.

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Hydro-IT’s IoT Water Monitor detects leaks and categorises their severity. If the water leak severity is too high, the water monitor shuts off the valve. No matter the water leak severity, the water monitor communicates all events through its true IoT network.

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LeveragePoint’s flagship software product, BusinessPoint, is a fully-fledged ERP solution developed for SMMEs. The product offers enterprises customer relationship management (CRM), sales, accounting, expense management, human resources, inventory and stock control, customer support, and reporting. BusinessPoint is offered as both a software as a Service (SaaS) and/or a multi tenancy architecture to offer the market flexibility and agility.

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Medikea is an online booking platform that is transforming the way patients and doctors schedule appointments in Africa. Patients can find a doctor by specialty, area, waiting time, and insurance firm; compare doctors by ratings and reviews; and make an instantaneous booking through the Medikea mobile app. The app also provides practice management solutions to doctors and hospitals, allowing them to manage appointments and patient data.

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Nature’s Nectar is committed to producing Zambia’s most sustainable and impactful honey, protecting local forests and creating high value for their producers. They distribute locally and sustainably produced top bar beehives to rural farmers, and then act as the guaranteed buyer of all honey produced from these hives. The honey they source is then processed and exported to markets such as Europe and the SADC Region. Nature’s Nectar uses a gender-inclusive approach, with 50% of their farmers being women, and uses a bespoke data tracking system to ensure the full transparency and traceability of their products.

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NovFeed is a waste-to-value startup company that has developed an innovative process to produce an alternative ingredient to fish meal and soybean meal by growing insects’ proteins with byproducts from Tanzania’s food industry. 

Leveraging the team’s more than seven years of cumulative experience in the food and insect sectors, the company has developed a process using biofactories such Black Soldier Fly larvae to convert food and organic waste into nutritious and protein-dense biomass.

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Scoot Logistics (Pty) Ltd is a citizen youth-owned enterprise that provides transport and delivery solutions through a technology-based platform. Scoot is the first app of its kind in Botswana, and is focused on empowering citizens and small businesses. The platform offers motorbike delivery services of goods; on-demand, safe, and reliable cab solutions; and truck and logistics solutions for the transportation and distribution of large items.

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SOG Water Solutions develops and builds machines that harvest water vapour from the air to produce pristine drinking water, using only electricity to capture the vapour and condense it into liquid form. They offer scalable products that can generate up to 1,000 litres per day. Their micro-grid can be used to harvest water in marginalised communities, which can enable their economic growth and development, and encourage the creation of a circular economy.

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Uku’hamba (Pty) Ltd focuses on improving amputees’ quality of life by using 3D printing technology with affordable materials to produce prosthetic limbs at low cost. These prostheses are lightweight, custom made, water resistant, and aesthetically pleasing, giving amputees greater independence and allowing them to display their prosthetic proudly and change the way others view disabilities.

I’m grateful and delighted to have been given the opportunity to participate at the SA Innovation Summit and Slush Global Impact Accelerator – I receive this honour with deep gratitude and great humility. It’s such an honour to become a part of this amazing group of innovators from across the Africa and beyond who are doing incredible works in their communities and beyond. More so, am grateful to receive tailored trainings on how to improve my solution and grow my startup. I’m excitedly looking forward to meet the best of the best and pitch my solutions on the stage, and this will inspire me and my team to go out and achieve even greater things in the future.”-Isaya Yunge,

“This is a great opportunity for exposure, networkings, learning and funding. We are excited to be a part of both the Annual Southern Africa Innovation Forum at SA Innovation Summit and the Slush GIA. As AgriPredict we are passionate about Africa and our people, we believe this opportunity will be great to get exposure to what other African startups are doing across Southern Africa to deliver impact.”-Mwila Kangwa,

“I am excited and honored to be part of a network of this magnitude. I am looking forward to make partnerships and learn from the industry experts.”-Bobby Ntuthang

“The opportunity to participate in the SA Innovation Summit and especially Slush GIA is very exciting. Solve Namibia looks forward to establish and maintain Namibia as a key Impact Driven and Entrepreneurial country in the Southern African and Global Communities. Solve Namibia is excited to network with the startup community outside Namibia, with focus on impact driven entrepreneurs as well as like-minded investors and potential customers.”-Demetrio Mowes

“Events are incredible opportunities to network with potential partners and like-minded people and organisations, where we can learn best practice and insights into taking a product to market in a way that retains integrity, quality and control of the product while achieving scale at the same time. To share our learnings in the start-up space and understand from others ways to always improve our methodologies and approach.”-Conn Bertish