The extremely expected 2023 edition of the Techmybiz Pitch-a-thon provided a breathtaking screen of development and skill as 22 remarkable digital options emerged winners.
The Techmybiz is an effort of GIZ/Digital Transformation Center Nigeria (DTC Nigeria), which is collectively moneyed by the European Union (EU) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and is carried out by Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.
Following a strenuous evaluation of countless applications from business owners throughout Nigeria, through a “Call for Digital Solutions” campaign that provided a platform for numerous innovators, business owners and start-ups within the Nigerian environment to sign up, 50 exceptional digital options were picked to pitch their concepts in the 3-day hybrid occasion.
The business owners showcased their innovative pitches, mesmerizing the audience and showcasing the disruptive capacity of their innovations throughout different markets
A panel of judges, consisting of market specialists, business owners, financiers, tech lovers, and experienced specialists, examined the pitches and picked the winners.
Here are the winners:
Asoro Automotive
Asoro Automotive is an extensive online platform that functions as a one-stop option for all vehicle innovation requires in Nigeria.
With a user-friendly user interface and user-friendly style, the platform uses a smooth experience for both car owners and vehicle service technicians.
It uses a vast array of services, from repair work and diagnostics to parts procurement, training programs, and specialist suggestions.
With its easy to use user interface and wealth of functions, the website functions as an important resource and a dependable partner for all.
Blualpha Nigeria Limited
EvriSale App is developed to fix the obstacles of micro, little, or medium businesses that it is associated with the sale of good and services.
This option is developed and established to help businesses screen sales operation of physical items and service-based items (no stock items that are not tracked such as Hair Salon, Beauty Shops, or Consultation) in a way that the owner has control of the business in his/her cellphone, and for Business owners to hand over stock inventory and app tasks to his/her manager.
The app supplies the business with reports such as sales reports, and stock reports.
myStash
The Profit app by myStash is a tool for business financing management. The app enables business owners to establish a budget plan for their business, track their business expenditures perfectly, and keep track of capital.
With the Profit app, a business owner can repair portions to be reserved anytime your consumers spend for your product and services.
This is a terrific fringe benefit, specifically for female business owners, a few of whom are not able to gain access to loans due to the fact that they do not have security possessions like land or other costly possessions. So far, myStash has actually empowered over 5,000 business owners.
Echovon Technologies Limited
This option is a SaaS web platform and mobile app that provide information insight and a market for SME merchants to immediately recognize successful local items.
No more waiting to equip high-demand items that increase profits, and take pleasure in 90% cost savings on commission charges on their market.
As a customer on Vevet’s market, you can buy food, groceries, and other items from neighboring grocery stores and dining establishments.
Receive a list of your preferred items which attracts you to position more orders therefore increasing profits for us and our suppliers.
Metro e-Corporate services Ltd
Metro e-Corporate services ltd is a tech-driven business compliance business that uses a one-stop option reinventing business compliance for little and medium businesses by leveraging advanced innovation to streamline legal compliance, conserving time, effort, and resources.
Loyalty Alliance Systems Limited
Loystar is an omnichannel retail commerce platform that deals with micro, little, and medium-sized businesses (MSMEs) by using an extensive suite of tools and options.
The platform consists of a Point-of-Sale (POS) system and stock management software, which empower merchants to efficiently handle their sales, client records, and stock throughout numerous areas, consisting of online channels.
With the Loystar software, merchants can effectively track their sales deals and preserve comprehensive client records.
The platform supports different payment alternatives, enabling businesses to accept payments in numerous methods to deal with client choices
Big Family 360 Foundation
Northwave app is a fintech mobile application that enables MSMEs to take part in money circling around (cumulative cost savings) in a safe and secure way.
The application is developed to alleviate the retrieval of financial investment amongst group members that are participated in money circling around with no breach of agreement.
The Northwave app assists to gather and obtain cost savings from group members(consumers) by means of their debit cards and checking account as due, thus conserving group members from losing their money and financial investment. The group’s financial contribution is based upon one’s monetary capability and strength.
Xchange Box Solutions Ltd
This option supplies both credit gain access to and payments/collections for mainly women-led corner stores where females offer consumables and minor trading by providing as low as 100 USD weekly repayable credit to sustain their trading topic to increase based upon records of payment proven through its payment platform by means of Card Reading gadgets offered to them for getting payments, credit reliability records (based upon payments and deal volumes) for rural neighborhoods’ corner stores.
CDIAL AI
Its item, IndiGenius is an advanced multilingual keyboard that utilizes the power of expert system (AI) to reinvent digital interaction, smart typing input, and translation throughout 160 languages worldwide.
This ingenious keyboard exceeds standard input techniques by using speech-to-text performance, making it an indispensable tool for people with typing obstacles or tiredness.
Developed after 11 months of comprehensive research study of unique characters and missing out on alphabets that are missing from standard keyboards and an extensive understanding of the African market, the cumulative intelligence acquired throughout this research study was ingeniously released into the style and performance of IndiGenius.
Agrovesto Enterprise Ltd
Agrovesto is a platform that supplies smooth Agro-products trading and payment experience for smallholder farmers and crop purchasers.
The platform is developed to digitize the circulation of food from farms to purchasers and offer real-time market information for simple trading choices.
Users can likewise access on-demand basic warehousing and budget friendly logistics options quickly.
The platform likewise developed farmer onboarding software that makes it possible for profiling of farmers and paying out top quality input through our relied on providers and likewise uses advisory services for sustainable food production.
Greenera Technologies LTD
Greenera Technologies concentrates on the production and production of solar standalone systems for both property and business applications.
Its ingenious items harness the power of the sun to offer sustainable and trusted energy options.
By using its solar power, Greenera Technologies systems help in reducing carbon emissions, lower energy expenses, and add to a greener future
Topcity Enterprises Ltd
Topcity is a Nigerian-based start-up that is participated in making use of innovation in onions processing, modern-day Onions storage, connecting farmers to market and training females in onions processing to decrease post-harvest losses to N300 billion($650m), enhance food security, decrease cravings, promote performance and success amongst Farmers/females, enhance nationwide economy and produce work.
Advanced Engineering Centre
Precision moulds are precisely machined equipment utilized for the mass production of plastic items, consisting of mineral water, shoe soles, wall mounts, plates, gallons, and so on. Moulds are utilized to form plastic shapes, profiles and items.
Moulds fabrication needs a high level of engineering competence and abilities which is really limited in Nigeria and Africa. Modern mould fabrication needs Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAMERA) both of which are digital innovations.
Crox Technologies Ltd
Croxapp is a peer-to-peer (P2P) parcel shipment platform that was developed to attend to the obstacles of conventional carrier services in Nigeria.
It links people who require to send out parcels with relied on and validated people who are already taking a trip in the very same instructions as the parcel’s location.
This ingenious platform enables users to send out parcels at a minimized cost and time, while likewise offering a chance for people to make money by getting and providing parcels on their method to their location.
Veritas Imperial Investments Limited
GIFTY – Digital Shop Maker is a SaaS platform that makes it possible for MSMEs to produce e-commerce sites in under 5 minutes utilizing their mobile phones.
The platform supplies a number of advantages, consisting of much shorter, more smooth sales discussions with consumers online, precise sales records, and AI-powered sales development insights.
GIFTY was developed to attend to the obstacles MSMEs deal with when participating in sales discussions with prospective consumers online.
These discussions are typically demanding and recurring, causing longer sales cycles and low or no sales.
Kamel, Inc
Kamel is an all-in-one option to make it possible for anybody to start, handle, and grow a retail business of any size – even without access to capital.
With its item, suppliers can get access to a WhatsApp-incorporated e-commerce website, in addition to tools for handling stock, orders, accounting, client relations, and so on.
Vendors likewise get their items promoted by the Kamel network of resellers who make commissions from every sale they broker.
Retailloop Solution Technologies
Retailoop is a composable retail engine that assists semi-formal merchants build scalable commerce options with remarkable designer tools.
Adashi
Adashi assists unbanked and underbanked consumers specifically MSMEs who have concerns accessing official monetary services to save and gain access to credit.
The platform is not just assisting the unbanked to save more however has actually had the ability to eliminate the inconveniences of troublesome documentation the agent/collector needs to go through every day.
Adashi has actually removed the problem of openness and responsibility which become part of the factors these users don’t rely on official monetary systems.
BIME
BIME is an automatic accounting software developed to make accounting much easier for little businesses.
It consists of functions such as automated bank deal imports, expense classification, invoicing, and monetary reporting to help businesses handle their financial resources more effectively.
One of BIME’s essential benefits is its capability to immediately import bank deals. This gets rid of the requirement for manual information entry and decreases the possibility of mistakes.
The software likewise immediately classifies expenditures, conserving businesses time and making sure that their monetary records are precise.
CreamsonTechnology Company
This option assists sustain an environment-friendly, cleaner and much healthier environment through waste recycling of P.E.T plastic products from the cities into feedstock by releasing ultra-modern fully-automated NANO sensing unit refining lines to sort, crush, wash and recycle up-to-market-top quality 99.7% pureness level for the production of carpets, fibers, plastic clothes and brand-new bottles.
This is done along with ecological sustainability and pertinent SDGs knowledge projects throughout neighborhoods, instructional and spiritual organizations with a concentrate on the 3Rs: Reuse, Recycle and Reduce.
Bitcoops
BitCoop is a user-friendly and user-friendly app developed for handling cooperative societies of all sizes. Whether you’re in charge of a little neighborhood cooperative or a big, multi-location society, BitCoop has whatever you require to simplify your operations and keep things running efficiently.
With BitCoop, you can quickly track your members and their contributions, along with your financials and daily operations.
The app’s member management functions permit you to preserve comprehensive info about your members, including their contact info, contributions, and payment history.
Moon Innovations
This item is the solar clever inverter system, a single-box option offering houses and businesses with solar electrical energy, wifi web gain access to, and AI-enabled security monitoring with a mobile application to keep track of and manage this system from anywhere from another location.
It likewise consists of a trespasser alarm which can be set off when a trespasser is spotted by means of the mobile app.
MSMEs in Nigeria are rather lucky to have all these digital options they can use in their organisations, to make their businesses more effective and reliable.
