Meet your Winners, South Africa! 🏆 🇿🇦
After weeks of anticipation, thousands of public votes and careful adjudication by our 25-person all-star judging committee, it all came down to announcing the winners of this year's South African Startup Awards last night, in front of a packed house at Cape Town’s Royal Yacht Club (with hundreds more watching online).
Without further ado, we’re proud to present your 2024 winners:
🤖 AI & BIG DATA: Yazi - the WhatsApp-integrated research platform ensuring better responses and insights.
🧬 BIOTECH: Immobazyme - catalysing innovation through precision fermentation, to produce high-value active protein ingredients.
🌱 CLIMATE/SUSTAINABILITY: The Awareness Company - enabling large enterprises to tackle sustainability challenges, while optimising profit.
🙋 CONSUMERTECH: Truvu - Virtual Tours - bridging the gap in online property browsing.
💻 DIGITAL COMMERCE: Hailr - The platform transforming ads into engaging, playable and rewarding user experiences.
📚 EDTECH: Melsoft Academy - Equipping Africans students to launch successful careers in software development.
💳 FINTECH: Float - Africa's 1st card-linked instalment platform.
💼 FUTURE OF WORK: Jem HR - The Whatsapp-enabled HR and employee benefits platform for frontline employees.
🩺 HEALTHTECH: Strove - The integrated wellbeing and engagement platform for the modern workforce.
💵 INFORMAL MARKET: Delivery Ka Speed SA - The delivery service bringing accessibility to townships.
🚚 MOBILITY/LOGISTICS: MotionAds - The delivery bike advertising solution, increasing brand visibility for companies and supplementing driver income.
🙋 PEOPLE'S CHOICE: Happy Pay - Empowering South African consumers with zero-cost credit.
What a showcase of the remarkable potential in our country and we wish all category winners (and finalists) our sincere congratulations! 👏
In case you missed it, you can re-watch the livestream:
https://lnkd.in/grz45WtH, or checkout the event album here: https://lnkd.in/dPPkmzGW.
Thank you again to this year’s entrants, voters, judges and ecosystem partners, FNB South Africa, Momentum Group Limited, E Squared Investments , Paystack, Guardrisk, MakeReign | A Customer Experience Company, Aions Creative Technology, Origen Software | A Product Building Company, ALX Ventures, Injini , South African Future Trust, ONE39 Central | Project & Event Architects, Melon Mobile, Impact Capital Africa, HAVAÍC, Dommisse Attorneys Inc, Manjaro Marketing, Jozi Angels, OfferZen and Jonsson Workwear.