Orange has launched a new accelerator in Ivory Coast dubbed “Orange Fab Ivory Coast” in a move to facilitate the development of start-ups in the Ivorian economic system.
Mari-Noëlle Jégo-Laveissière, Senior Executive Vice President of Innovation, Marketing and Technologies of Orange said,“With the opening of two new accelerators in Israel and Ivory Coast, the network of Orange Fab is now present on four continents. We believe it is our role to support, internationally, the growth of start-ups, which is a win-win situation.”
The firm has also selected four startups to join the program. The four were selected from 86 submissions basing on their customer experience, digital solutions for the company connected objects, social networks and community services, e-commerce, everyday life, local content, mobile payment and money transfer, e-education, e-agriculture and e-health.
The four will be accelerated for 3 months and will be exposed to valuable mentoring of fifty coaches, including Orange mentors, entrepreneurs and local academics to build their products and businesses. They will also have use Orange’s testing center in Abidjan and will have access to Orange’s APIs and 15 euros in a convertible note.
The startups include;
ICT4Dev.ci: a platform for managing agricultural cooperatives composed of an information web portal (Lôr Bouôr); a distribution system for the agricultural prices via mobile (Djori Djori); a vocal booth (Djassi); and a virtual market.
Samartsell: a management solution for points of sale with the following functions: remote management and automation of inventory, billing with mobile devices and selling of airtime from cash registers in order to solve the problems of currency.
Sycelim: responds to the needs of the insurance and healthcare programmes for asset management, billing management and pension payments. Sycelim also supports the management of the patient’s follow-up: registration of benefits, conditions, prescriptions and medical dispensations pharmacies.
Sportif 225: a sports web agency whose main activity is the sale of web and mobile services adapted to the sport environment, the production of sport contents and the creation of sport events.
The firm also announced a similar move in Israel.