Kola Market, the B2B fullstack e-commerce startup, has been selected for the Google for Startups Accelerator Africa: Women Founders Cohort.
Led by Marie-Reine Seshie, the platform leverages AI and other digital tools to provide marketing, consistent sales and blended finance to SMEs across Africa. Their RaaS (Results-as-a-Service) intelligent forecasting uses machine learning and proprietary, predictive models to generate the most accurate orders for your stores.
With Kola AI, SMEs understand their buying trends and cash flow cycles, uncover smart inventory management insights and ascertain credit scores that enable access to adequate financing. Kola seeks to help SMEs sell out and grow their income.
Google for Startups Accelerator: Women Founders is designed to bring the best of Google’s expertise, products, people and technology to women-led tech startups up to the Series A stage, based in Africa or building Africa-centered solutions with technology. The overarching goal of the accelerator program is to discover and empower women founders who are paving the way for the digital transformation of Africa.
The 15 selected startups come from 8 African countries, including Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Congo, Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, and Cameroon. The solutions range from technological solutions that detect crop pests and diseases to a cooperative inventory procurement and financial services platform for bulk buying merchants of consumer goods.
Source: Techcabal
