This competition is to allow the Radar Community pick their favorite startup. The startup with the most votes (likes) after a 48 hour period will win $500. It is just that simple.
This competition is sponsored by M&S Partners whose Founder and CEO @Hiro , will be visiting Lagos next week. He and @Taro (of M&S partners also) will be looking at the thread also to see the great stuff we have in our tech community.
How to enter:
Pitch your startup to the Radar Community in the following format
Startup Name: Startup Url: Startup Pitch: This is/are the problems we have observed, and we have built this solution. We will make money in the following ways. This is our traction so far. (all should be in 100 words or less to prevent this dissertation ).
It is complex for Nigerian businesses to collect payments online due to the numerous requirements and poor user experience of the existing payment services. Paystack makes is very easy to collect payments online and you can get started in minutes. Paystack makes money by collecting capped percentage of payments made with our platform. We have over 500 businesses using our service.
Note the following guidelines:
Only founders can pitch their startup
Only one entry per founder
Only startups with a working prototype/prototype. (no ideas and local host entries)
Only pitches will be allowed on this thread. No comments, No feedback. Reply to this original thread.
Organizers will have the final say to prevent a Boaty McBoatface
Some startups here will also be invited to pitch at the meetup on the 28th in order to win $2500.
##Please not make us have to disqualify your great entry for not following our simple instructions. Remember, IN 100 WORDS OR LESS was highlighted. Entries will be counted.
Startup Name: Summary News Startup Url: www.summary.ng Startup Pitch: The consumer lives in a distracted world with several things; brands, responsibilities, thoughts, family, work and so on, begging for attention. He therefore has less time to spend harnessing information and has a ridiculously limited attention span. As a result, he becomes less attentive to long content that is not punchy. Summary News present a full news in just 400 characters. You need just 10 seconds to read a whole page! iOS and Android Apps available.
Bassrate www.bassrate.com
There’s a need for us to connect with music. Bassrate allows you to rate the songs(1-6) you love and those you don’t, share music status with your connections,comment on your friends’ rates and share your favorite music on your playlist. Bassrate is the Instagram for music. We can now socialise with music. It is a way for songs to be ranked according to the total rates (Artistes can brag about that) . We would profit from advertising music.
Startup Name: EasyticketsNg Startup Url:http://Easytickets.com.ng Startup Pitch: Easytickets.com.ng is an event ticketing and logistics startup with a focus on Ibadan.
Our primary aim is reducing depression, with as little as 300 naira, you can buy tickets to breathtaking shows on our website and get to forget about your problems, even if it’s just for 3 hours.
We make money by charging a percentage per ticket sold.
We have sold tickets to about 10 shows.
Furnish.NG provides access to the largest online catalogue of beautiful furniture designs and takes the hassles away from you by interfacing with the craftsmen while you face your daily job.
Furnish.NG generates revenue through sales of items and provision of interior designs services.
Our traction goal of cataloguing over 10,000 products is on course. Lots of sales are offline; we are mobilizing an offline salesforce to convert leads.
Lucy.ng is an online store and marketplace for souvenir gifts and promotional items. we supply branded gift items for social and corporate events.
Sourcing for preferred gifts, souvenirs and promotional items in large quantities in Nigeria can be a daunting task, that is why we created Lucy.ng to make it easy for individuals and corporate bodies to source and brand preferred gift items to suit their needs.
We have been in operation for about 8 months, improved sales for several vendors and sold over 7000 products to several individuals and corporate bodies, notable among them are Google, Facebook , Etisalat.
Startup Name: Showroom.ng
Startup URL: www.showroom.ng
Startup Pitch: We are Nigeria’s premier online showroom for furniture and interior decor. For over a year we have helped our customer “sit and relax” while checking out awesome and affordable furnitures on our site. We have sold to many individuals and businesses in our short lifespan and have had repeated sales online. We have done close to $100k in revenue and on course to triple that in the next 12 months. If you call us IKEA of Africa you wont be wrong, but we make you sit and relax while we get top quality and affordable furniture delivered to you in timely manner without stories! We earn money from the markup on every listed product.
Startup Name- Hubrif
Startup URL- www.hubrif.com
Startup Pitch- Hubrif is an online video platform for filmmakers and audiences of African short films. The one-stop community for streaming award winning and thought provoking short films made by Africans. Built and designed by filmmakers, Hubrif’s goal is to enable you easily discover, watch and share stories from Africa on your desktop, laptop and mobile devices. We have over 9000 pageviews since our open beta launch 3 months ago and will begin experimenting with monetization once we reach our milestone interms of monthly unique visitors
Startup Name: Findworka Startup Url:www.findworka.com Startup Pitch: Nigerians are increasingly frustrated with the serious incompetence problem of many artisans and want an easy way to find competent people to do their work well, faster and at the best price. Findworka is an online platform that connects quality service providers to potential clients, and it’s great on both ends. As a client, you are exposed to reliable services that have already been vetted and rated by a community. And as a service provider, you gain access to a group of clients who are willing to pay promptly for your services. Our revenue model includes profits from commissions and service fees. We have over 1000 businesses using our service.
Startup Name: Revova Startup URL:https://revova.io/ Startup Pitch: Revova is a very simple service to help businesses, especially the SMBs with their people affairs and related processes. HR simply. This for us means beautiful tools to take care of payroll, health benefits administration, and hiring. All of these tools are built on our human resource information service(HRIS) which allows us to extract employee-employer data and make the appropriate connection, and build services on them.
Progress so far: Registered 10 HMOs including AXA Mansard, 7 PFAs including Leadway Pensure and Stanbic IBTC. 28 companies at the time of this, are interested already in less than 3 weeks. Due to launch in 2/3 weeks, delay due to an extra meeting with LIRS Director to complete tax automation/collection talk and for distribution to Lagos businesses, in turn helping LASG with a tool for tax collection.
How we make money: Payroll: N1200/employee/month, Brokerage(of 10%) with HMOs, PFAs and employee connected services.
Startup name: awoofbox
Url: Clients.aiotaq.com/awoofbox
Pitch: Awoofbox is revolutionising how households and restaurants buy foodstuff, by allowing groups of people to buy fresh and processed foodstuff direct from farmers and food processors at much cheaper prices.
Problem: food prices are higher than they should be because several middle men operate between farmers and consumers. Foodstuff is delivered stale, and in unsafe condition, and much produce is lost in storage.
Solution: through our group-buy innovation, we enable consumers to organise groups with purchasing power to share bulk farm produce and get them at cheap prices from source. We then deliver each group’s order to one location
Traction: 50 corporate and 100 residential customers in our client base.
Going to the movies can be a gamble - they might not be showing what you want to see, tickets might be sold out, there might be queues when you get there, etc.
Moview shows you what movies are showing in all major cinemas in Nigeria, and helps you purchase tickets online.
No gambles, no queues, just fun.
Moview makes money via commission on ticket sales.
Moview is currently in beta.
Tiketmobile https://www.tiketmobile.com
Many travelers like to book their flight ahead of time. And their hotels too.
But they leave their airport pickup or dropoff to the last minute, then usually have to face unreliable airport taxi or a friend, who’s sometimes too busy to pick them up.
Tiketmobile is closing that loop by letting people schedule airport pickup & dropoff ahead of travel and unlike your friend, we’re never too busy for you.
opened beta Feb 2015.
serviced >100 bookings within the 1st year.
operational in 3 Nigerian cities: Lagos, Abuja & Port-Harcourt.
The average Nigerian consumer with an active lifestyle spends a reasonable amount on airtime and bills monthly, within the same month they also get to spend money eating out, hanging out with friends, shopping and a number of other activities. Jara helps consumers pay their routine bills conveniently and rewards them with cash back in the form of discounts vouchers to fund their other lifestyle activities. We make money from commissions on user transactions and through advertisement from brands.
Jara has 500 beta users and 15+ retail brands who have signed up to offer discounts on our platform, including Dominos Pizza, Puma, HelloFood, Filmhouse Cinemas, Uber, Cafe Neo, Traclist.com, and Printivo.
Startup Name: Kangpe Startup Url: www.kangpe.com Startup Pitch: Verified health advice is difficult to get in Africa due to scarce health professionals and embarrassment discussing private health issues. Kangpe allows people discuss health issues confidentially with verified doctors 24/7 via the ubiquitous mobile phone using SMS, Mobile App or Web. Users pay to chat with a doctor. Users are individuals, and companies and HMOs providing our service to employees and enrollees. We launched in September 2015 and are revenue generating. Our 500+ doctors have answered 15,000 questions for 9,000+ users across 4 African countries. We just joined Facebook’s Freebasics platform and have signed on a major Telco.
Startup: NigeriaFreeAds www.Nigeriafreeads.com Nigeriafreeads.com is a location and community based online directory and classified listing website and app created with the mission to simplify Nigeria.
A simple effective business technology solution that connects all classes of people, professionals, business owners, manufacturers, artisans, industrialist, farmers, traders and organizations with right persons needing their products and services and provides easy direction on how to locate any listed address from their current location either by driving, transit, bicycling or just walking. Nigeriafreeads.com makes money from featured and sponsored listing on pages and individual categories and from advertising networks and customized pages etc.
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