Global early-stage startups competition has announced the 10 startups that will pitch at its final African event of the year in Gaborone, Botswana, on Friday, November 27, with the winning startup to head to the global final next year to pitch for US$500,000 in equity investment.<\/b><\/p>\n

Seedstars World<\/span><\/a> has already hosted African heats in <\/span>Mozambique<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>South Africa<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Nigeria<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Ghana<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Ivory Coast<\/span><\/a>,<\/span>Rwanda<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Uganda<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Kenya<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Ethiopia<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Angola<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Tanzania<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Senegal<\/span><\/a>, and wraps up its African tour this week in Gaborone.<\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>event<\/span><\/a> will take place at the Microsoft Innovation Centre, located within the Botswana Innovation Hub (BIH), with the startups to pitch to a panel of judges. A winner will be selected to represent the country at the final event in Geneva, Switzerland in February next year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pitching startups include livestock farm management application <\/span>Modisar<\/span><\/a>, music service <\/span>Zimbo Music<\/span><\/a>, livestock marketing platform <\/span>Farmconnecta<\/span><\/a>, and employee payment platform <\/span>Richbase<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The rest of the list is made up of taxi app <\/span>Hello Cabs<\/span><\/a>, UAV services company <\/span>Terracam<\/span><\/a>, clinic locator service <\/span>Cryptix<\/span><\/a>, mobile concierge service <\/span>The Event Muse<\/span><\/a>, NGO social network <\/span>DVLP<\/span><\/a>, and recycling startup Earth Love.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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