MEST to invest a total of $700k in these 7 African startups
Summary
Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology - MEST - has announced seven startups that will receive $700,000 in total funding according to Forbes. MESTs 2018 cohort has 7 startups from Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Cote d’Ivoire, and Zimbabwe. The seven startups, as described by Aaron Fu, MD of MEST, to Forbes, are: • ShareHouse; kicking off in Kenya, is on a path towards being the Airbnb for warehouses. • Nvoicia which is launching almost simultaneously in Lagos and Accra will use machine learning to unlock liquidity for SMEs via accessible and consistently assessed invoice discounting. • CodeIn solves a problem everyone in the tech industry in Africa is keenly aware of: efficiently and consistently testing and hiring software developers, by providing an end-to-end testing and hiring platform, CodeIn hopes to unlock work opportunities for freelance software developers in Africa and the world.