Winners
Winners
The MED’INNOVANT AFRICA 2020-2021 awards ceremony, organised by the urban and economic development agency Euroméditerranée (EPAEM), was held on Thursday 8 April in Marseille (France) as part of the EMERGING VALLEY international summit, the major showcase for African Tech in Aix-Marseille Provence Métropole.
After an examination of 183 applications and interviews of the five finalists by the jury on 29 March, two start-ups have been crowned for their innovative solutions. The Madagascan start-up GreenNKool, represented by its founder Marie Christina Kolo, won the Jury Award. The Jury’s Favourite Award was granted to AgroPad, a Cameroonian start-up developed and managed by Erik Gyslain Tiam. Both of these creative innovators will receive a financial endowment and acceleration package from the competition’s affiliated partners as well as excellent visibility and, most importantly, a fantastic opportunity to expand their market share in Europe!
Jury's Favorite Award
Jury Award
Discover all our winners and finalists:
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“SEN OR’DUR is a completely new innovation in Senegal which can be used to solve the problem of plastic waste by updating the plastic bottle collection system with the installation of collecting machines.”
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“The CLINICPLANT application can be used by farmers to rapidly diagnose crop diseases and instantly obtain the appropriate biological treatments based on a simple photograph of the plant. It uses leading-edge artificial intelligence technology for high quality image recognition, and provides farmers with good prevention practices.”
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“Med’Innovant is an incredible competition. You are pitted against other innovative entrepreneurs and appraised by a jury composed of professionals working in the ‘sustainable city’ industry. Winning this competition was a huge privilege for us and we’ve benefited in so many ways. Today, although it is based in Chad, Kouran Jabo is earning a growing reputation in Aix-Marseille-Provence’s entrepreneurship ecosystem boosted by the media coverage MED’INNOVANT attracts.”
Ali Mbodou Youssouf, Founder and CEO of KOURAN JABO, MED’INNOVANT 2018 Jury's Favourite Award |