Update: Some of the winners of DEMO Africa across Africa

A few weeks ago, the Micah Foundation hosted the Harare DEMO Africa Innovation Tour and SMART Connect, an Agri-Tech start-up, won the award. DEMO Africa is looking for innovative ideas that can be converted into commercial enterprises across Africa. Before the last event, DEMO Africa organizes innovation tours across the African continent in selected cities where entrepreneurs with ideas that can be converted into commercial ventures have the opportunity to present their ideas during the competition. final. This year, the final competition will be held in Morocco and some of the finalists on the African continent will fight in Morocco in October.

Johannesburg, South Africa

3 July 2018 – The South African tour of innovation organized by DEMO Africa in partnership with Legazy has experienced a surprising turnaround since two teams qualified for the second round to compete in the South African national competition. The friendly start-ups Get Hosted and Loyall came in at the head of an event that took place at the Parkhurst Office Hub in Johannesburg

GetHosted Builds an application that provides access to spaces for all types of events ranging from work desks, thematic parties and formal functions. GetHosted has adopted an AirBnB template for space rental. Loyal1 is an end-to-end rewards app and is badociated with retailers to use Bluetooth tags to send push notifications to consumers for them to use reward points. In addition, Loyal1 creates algorithms to badyze and understand consumers' buying behavior and make recommendations to them and also sell data to retailers.

Casablanca, Morocco