AMPZ, an online sports community, has been named the winner of the Lagos edition of the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) Africa pitch competition.
The startup provides a platform for talents to curate their sports profile, showcase and connect to the right audience.
The other startups that pitched at the event are:
- Crop2cash
- Edupoint
- Sonocare
- Mudia Project
- Sabi
- Smart hub
- SecureFarmer
Reacting to the win, Abdul-Jabbar Momoh, Co-founder/CEO of AMPZ, said the team is very excited to win the 2019 Lagos edition and look forward to winning the Africa Challenge in Nairobi.
The #MESTAfricaChallenge2019 winners have been chosen! We’re excited to announce this year’s top five startups moving on to compete at the #MESTAfricaSummit2019 in Nairobi in June: @Snode_Tech, @oze, @wayawayaltd, @ampz_tv and @Seekewa. Read more here https://t.co/8LjhajgwVw pic.twitter.com/NuZxP59uZa
— MEST Africa (@MESTAfrica) March 5, 2019
“For us, we are very excited, We have always had a very optimistic approach to push our solutions out there. This tells us people are sharing our vision and have seen the possibility of what we can do.
“Our solution is the first of its kind in Africa. We are looking forward to the final and before then we are putting a lot of things in place to change our narrative before then.
“Sport is a global language and our solution is easily scalable in any region on the continent and we are catering for every sports interest.”
Momoh expressed optimism that the final is going to be a good run for the company as sports is a global business.
This win guarantees AMPZ automatic entry at the MEST’s 2nd pan-Africa Summit in Nairobi, Kenya this June and a chance to win $50,000 in equity investment.
Other startups that pitched at the MEST incubator on Thursday include
The other winners by the city:
- Ghana: Oze, a FinTec working to enable investment-readiness by providing small businesses with the data they need to make decisions
- South Africa: Snode Technologies, a real-time security operations and data analytics platform
- Kenya: Waya Waya, a digital banking platform providing electronic transfer, payments, group savings and peer lending solutions to individuals, developers & businesses
- Abidjan: Seekewa, an Agri-tech startup focused on crowd-farming in Ivory Coast
In 2018, Accounteer, a Nigeria-based cloud accounting company, won the Lagos edition and went all the way to win the $50,000 equity investment at the Africa Challenge in South Africa.
