BREAKING: PrepClass Wins TechCabal Battlefield’s $20,000 Grand Prize

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TechCabalPrepclass, an online portal that helps students prepare for popular examinations with an initial focus is on the nationwide JAMB exams has won the TechCabal Battlefield’s $20,000 Grand Prize beating six other finalists.

PrepClass has a database of Q&As, feedback/report sheets plus a student user-friendly interface to help students prepare for Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board examinations. PrepClass was founded by Obanor Chukwuwezam and Ogunlana olumide.

 Callbase  took the 2nd Place with $2,000 + Gifts. Callbase is a telephone system for modern distributed teams that makes it easy, affordable and more efficient for organizations to manage and measure voice communication with customers, partners and AutoBox came third Place. AutoBox is an online shopping platform offering Nigerians genuine auto parts and electrical accessories, a need which is currently underserved in Nigeria’s growing e-commerce industry. AutoBox’s aim is to provide their customers the assurance of high quality in a market filled with substandard products.

According to Tomi Davies, Chairman of the Lagos Angel Network, and a member of the TechCabal Battlefield Faculty,” PrepClass was one startup that everyone had on the list. The reason they won is that in terms of the problems solved and the potential they have to scale. PrepClass was just the best.”

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Other startups included 500Shops, an e-commerce as a service platform that allows any business owner to setup a complete online store in minutes. Adugbo is a digital platform that enables the contextually relevant discovery and promotion of products/services offered by local merchants/small businesses. Via a suite of web/mobile apps offering specific location-based services, Adugbo aims to become the digital interface to your city.

601659_394229577358347_540412417_nCasaGrupo, an online real estate crowdfunding platform that provides exclusive, well curated, safe and profitable real estate investment projects to its members. By aggregating funds over the internet, CasaGrupo is able to reduce monetary exposure per deal to a minimum of N100,000 and Decoded, a music platform that aids in the discovery of African music with a focus on the lyrics. Decoded provides users with the ability to experience the diverse and intricate cultures within Africa through the unique lens of musical and literary composition.

1394338_481805321934105_1265908718_nAll the finalists get payment integration to their websites for free courtesy of Stanbic IBTC.

The TechCabal Battlefield was sponsored by Stanbic IBTC Bank, iROKING, Jobberman, Konga, Etisalat, with support from VC4Africa, Ventureburn, Capital Square, Easy Taxi, Ebonylife TV, YNaija, BellaNaija and RELOADED Magazine.

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Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Sam Wakoba is a pan-African technology journalist, author, entrepreneur, technology business mentor, judge, educationalist, and a sought-after speaker and panelist across Africa’s innovation ecosystem. He is the convenor of the popular monthly #TechNight evening event and the #StartupEast Awards and Conference, platforms that bring together startup founders, developers, entrepreneurs, investors, content creators, and tech professionals from across the continent. For more than 16 years, Sam has reported on and analysed Africa’s technology landscape, covering some of the continent’s most impactful, and at times controversial policies, programs, investors, co-founders, startups, and corporations. His work is known for its independence, depth, and fairness, with a singular goal of helping build and strengthen Africa’s nascent technology ecosystem. Beyond journalism, Sam is a business analyst and consultant, working with brands, universities, corporates, SMEs, and startups across East Africa, as well as international companies entering the East African market or scaling across Africa. In his free time, he volunteers as a consulting editor and fintech analyst at Business Tech Kenya, a business, technology, and data firm that publishes reports, reviews, and insights on business and technology trends in Kenya. Follow him on X: @SamWakoba