Yesterday, at a very brief event held at the Airtel Headquarters in Banana Island, Airtel announced the seven winners of its Catapult-a-Startup event.
The winners were:
Yuzah
Yuzah is a diesel delivery service that allows anyone to request immediate delivery of diesel to their home or office through the Yuzah mobile app
ChopUp Games
One of the most popular games developers in Nigeria; of Table Soccer, Sambisa Assault, Jumpology and Oya Runwith friends fame.
PushCV
PushCV is an online recruitment, and capacity building, service looking to revolutionize the recruitment scene in Nigeria. They launched their El;ite Employee Quest 2015 yesterday at a cocktail held at Melarossa, Ikoyi.
SonBim Games
Sonbim Games is Nigeria’s Pioneer Game Development Company dedicated to building fun and exciting games around Africa’s Rich Culture. You should check out their Valentine’s Rush.
MatchUp
Online dating’s said to be the future of relationships, now that we’re all too busy to meet people in real life. Matchup has created an algorithm that pairs you up with people of like interests.
BluBird
Blubird is an affordable, easy to use and intelligent retail management platform that enables retail businesses in Africa’s fastest growing economy to easily carry out all aspect of their daily operations such as sales, cash collection and inventory management.
Pass.ng
Pass.ng helps students prepare for Nigeria’s most important admission examination, JAMB among others.
We live tweeted the event; but here’s an accumulation of the entire tweetstorm:
Announcements of the Catapult-a-startup winners is Underway. #airtel #Catapultastartup
— Techpoint Africa (@TechpointAfrica) February 12, 2015
Second winners of the One million naira prize is Yuzah. pic.twitter.com/aJwgd5Sceo
— Techpoint Africa (@TechpointAfrica) February 12, 2015
MatchUp also won at the competition! #airtel #Catapultastartup pic.twitter.com/PcoedqpYnB
— Techpoint Africa (@TechpointAfrica) February 12, 2015
SonBim games also won for the games category. Well done guys! #Airtel #Catapultastartup pic.twitter.com/3rWdYU280v
— Techpoint Africa (@TechpointAfrica) February 12, 2015
BluBird, a retail management app, is one of the announced winners. #airtel #Catapultastartup pic.twitter.com/ntoJVWtIVl
— Techpoint Africa (@TechpointAfrica) February 12, 2015
And the next winner is ChopUp games. They don't really need introductions. Remember Oya Run with Friends! pic.twitter.com/gpRUHVsjRh
— Techpoint Africa (@TechpointAfrica) February 12, 2015
The final set of winners at the airtel catapult a startup are the folks at @Push_CV well done guys! pic.twitter.com/NXGpN9hLAf
— Techpoint Africa (@TechpointAfrica) February 12, 2015
We wish all of these winners success in their future endeavours!
