Five African startups with solutions in the credit scoring space have been selected to pitch for the chance to secure a testing phase for their solutions with ENGIE Africa.
The partnership between ENGIE and Africa Tech Summit Kigali offered credit scoring startups with the potential to provide innovative solutions to both existing and future ENGIE customers the chance to pitch on the Africa Startup Summit stage, which is once again powered by Disrupt Africa.
Happy to be part of @ENGIEgroup startup pitch at #ATSKGL where 5 of Africa’s most innovative credit scoring startups pitched in front of the judges.
— Fenix International (@fenixintl) February 6, 2020
Congrats to the winning team: @SuperFluidLabs!@AfricaTechSMT @YeleBademosi @ENGIEInnov pic.twitter.com/dXrDEo8VdK
ENGIE is looking for credit scoring startups to provide proper, accurate, efficient and relevant business intelligence to improve and optimise the prospection and acquisition of future customers, financing schemes for its existing and future customers, and scenarios to valorise customer data that aim to design customer profiles and match offers to customer needs.
The five startups selected to pitch are as follows:
For early-stage ideas, ENGIE is offering US$5,000 in cash funding to help to finance a prototype, or, for more developed solutions, it is offering a testing phase with ENGIE Africa. The winner of the challenge will be able to test the efficiency and viability of their solution in the relevant environment within the ENGIE Africa business framework over a period of six months. Based on the results of the testing phase, the solution shall be integrated within the ENGIE Africa business portfolio for further co-development of the project. Prospective locations for the testing phase are South Africa, Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Ivory Coast, Morocco, Tanzania and Benin.
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