MultiChoice Group has announced the selection of 11 startups for the next phase of its Accelerator Program. The startups, including Tendo from Ghana, will have the opportunity to pitch to international investors at an event in Dubai.
Led by Felix Manford, Tendo is a social commerce startup that enables anyone to sell online with zero capital investment. Tendo curates a catalogue of popular products for drop shippers or “resellers”.
Once resellers select the items they like, Tendo provides them with digital marketing tools and materials, which the resellers can use to sell products at a price of their choosing. Once the reseller secures a sale, Tendo takes care of the rest: handling the payment, making the delivery, subtracting the cost of the item, and depositing the profits into their account.
The other selected companies include Dojah (Nigeria), taskmoby (Ethiopia), Botlhale AI (South Africa), Mighty Finance (Zambia), Tupuca (Angola), MaTontine (Senegal), Zuri Health (Kenya), StarNews Mobile (Ivory Coast), Gradesmatch (South Africa) and Crop2Cash (Nigeria).
The MultiChoice Africa Accelerator programme, the brainchild of the MultiChoice Group and part of the MultiChoice Innovation Fund, in collaboration with Dubai-based business incubator Companies Creating Change (C3), technical partner EOH, and Galelo Africa, has been designed as a platform to help grow startup businesses from across Africa.
Source: MultiChoice Group
