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Prepclass, 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.”
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.
CasaGrupo, 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.
All 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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