Elmarie Perieira – Memeza Shout
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The inaugural AYO Scaling Africa Series recently culminated in an enthusiastically contended and attended Demo Day. The top five technopreneurs selected from a broad spread of excellent entries, competed for a R100 000 cash prize, with the female-led, community-focused Memeza Shout Crime Prevention alarm system taking top honours. The range of sectors included Edutech, Cleantech, Robotics, 3D Printing and Cities of the Future.
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AYO Scaling Africa Series challenge, a collaboration between the SA Innovation Summit and AYO Technology Solutions, is aimed at empowering South Africa’s Technopreneurs, and identifying and supporting South African digital and tech-based businesses that are disrupting the ecosystem with novel ways to solve business and everyday needs of communities across Africa.
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After months of searching, screening, and careful selection, the final five qualifying businesses for the next round of the AYO Scaling Africa Series have been selected. In partnership with the SA Innovation Summit, the series looks to assist tech entrepreneurs in taking their Series A businesses to the next level.
These five finalists have been chosen for their standout proposition within the landscape of tech business in South Africa, as well as for clearly articulating and demonstrating their potential for rapid growth and sustainability.
The founders, and their teams, will now test their mettle against one another with the overall winner claiming the R100 000 cash prize from investment group AYO Technology Solutions (AYO). However, the AYO Scaling Africa Series goes beyond a single cash injection, as these businesses will also be considered for more in-depth investment funding and support from AYO and its experienced management team.
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