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South Africa’s digital payment specialist Ozow and AfricArena have partnered to launch a R100,000 challenge a challenging tech talent across the nation to help deliver a new wave of fintech innovation leveraging the new Ozow API, with prize money of
Ozow has teamed up with AfricArena to launch a HackathonChallenge across South Africa. This is aunique opportunity for tech developers to build innovationand work with the world class team of Ozow, by providing a presentation of their idea and code using the Ozow API to demonstrate the application.
Three finalist teams will qualify and compete on AfricArena Summit, the continent’s premier deal flow platform, on 24 and 25 November 2020. The winning team will walk away with a cash prize of R100,000, and the finalists will earn R25,000.
Thomas Pays, Founder and CEO of Ozow, says, “The growth of the fintech industry has beenaccelerating throughout the pandemic, and digitization of payments is at the forefront of the economic transformation of many businesses. Since its inception, Ozow has been an incredibly dynamic and innovative South Africa based company. Our world class tech team is putting the best developer minds in the country to the challenge with the AfricArena Ozow challenge. We are looking forward to receiving very disruptive ideas using our new Ozow API and to work with the finalist teams to continue to deliver amazing innovation to the market.”
“We are very proud of partnering with the Ozow team, a challenge winner at AfricArena 2017, to work on this amazing Hackathon and engage with the brilliant tech community in South Africa for applications using Ozow technology. Ozow has been an incredible success story since its creation and has become a reference in fintech. We hope this will unlock further innovation and enable many developers across the nation to show their metal” says Christophe Viarnaud, AfricArena founder.
South African-based AfricArena, which has established itself as a leading ecosystem accelerator and deal flow platform across Africa since it launched in 2017, is anchored and endorsed by major international sponsors. These include La French Tech, Silicon Cape, United Nations , AirFrance KLM, Sanofi, Methys, City of Cape Town, Wesgro, Proparco,along with several major investment networks such as EuroQuity, SAVCA, EAVCA, AVCA andABAN.
