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The Migration Entrepreneurship Prize 2022

Enhancing socio-economic rights and reducing vulnerability of migrants in the Middle East and Africa

April 1, 2022 - May 31, 2022

About the Program

The Migration Entrepreneurship Prize is a program focused on the identification and technical support to socially-driven businesses on a mission to enhance the economic inclusion of migrants in the Middle East and Africa. Supporting startups that harness the positive benefits of migration and reduce the vulnerability of migrants by improving their livelihoods, contributing to their social and economic rights, and thereby reducing the pressure for irregular dangerous migration routes.

Global Winners 2022

EGYPT • OTHER

Neqabty

Neqabty is a comprehensive FinTech platform build on the automation of syndicate's services to their members in a seamless integrations through our standard APIs at Zero cost for the syndicates or unions

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NIGERIA • CONSUMER SERVICES

Tech & Identity Solutions Lab Ltd.

xTID is an automated digital background check platform that solves the problem up to 1 million within and 100k+ people outside Nigeria face every time they request a police character certificate PCC.

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LEBANON • TECH

CONCAT Tech LTD

CONCAT is the first web development agency led by talented refugee and female developers. We empower marginalised developers by providing them with long-term, sustainable employment whilst also creating innovative tech solutions for our clients.

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GHANA • FINANCIAL SERVICES

H28 Technologies

H28 is a platform that increases the percentage of successful home finance applicants in Africa. They provide the easiest way for a customer to create a savings plan based on their current financial reality.

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NIGERIA • FINANCIAL SERVICES

Flance

Flance is a benefits platform for gig economy workers; freelancers, digital nomads, contract workers, software devs, Uber and matatu drivers, etc, so they will have access to healthcare, loans, savings, and wealth management amongst other benefits.

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NIGERIA • FINANCIAL SERVICES

AjoMoney

AjoMoney is a digital platform that digitizes the centuries-aged rotating savings and credit associations in Africa to promote financial inclusion. Since its beta launch in September 2021, AjoMoney has processed about $450,000 in grand transaction volume and onboarded about 9,000 users with over 5,000 users actively paying. All this was achieved at a 0% marketing budget.

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NIGERIA • FINANCIAL SERVICES

Joovlin

Joovlin is a B2B social commerce platform, enabling African retailers to sell online with zero capital, by using technology to provide them access to on-demand inventory and connect them to a pool of vetted suppliers.

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NIGERIA • TECH

Sidebrief

Sidebrief helps SMEs get their business started in 5 minutes on a single form with a few basic questions and an identification upload. They provide an automated tax and regulatory compliance process for businesses onboarded on their platform.

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ETHIOPIA • FINANCIAL SERVICES

Chapa Financial Technologies

Chapa is a digital financial tool that empowers MSMEs in Ethiopia to access local and international markets they're otherwise excluded from.

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NIGERIA • EDUCATION

Edusko

Edusko Africa is a social enterprise that helps low and middle-income earning families in sub-Saharan Africa access quality education for their wards by creating access to good schools, finance, and education marketplace. Currently placing hundreds of children in over 4,000 listed schools every week.

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GHANA • FINANCIAL SERVICES

Gigmile

Gigmile is building the financial infrastructure for mobility-based gig work in Africa. We are democratising access to opportunities in Africa’s rising Gig Economy by enabling mobility-based gig workers with productive assets (motorcycles, smartphones, etc) to enable them to improve their livelihood from day one.

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NIGERIA • FINANCIAL SERVICES

Vesti

Vesti is a mobile and web app for immigrants who want to get a bank account, US debit, and Credit cards in Nigeria. Currently, Vesti have helped 44k users and they have crossed $1m in Gross sales volume.

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EGYPT • EDUCATION

iSchool

iSchool is the first accredited Egyptian African EdTech startup by the international STEM organization, an online coding platform for 6 to 18 years old students that offer 1:1 or 1:6 live coding classes in artificial intelligence, data science, game development, VR, AR, with more than 8,000 graduates in 10 different countries helping them to start a technology-based career, freelancing, or even launch their own startups.

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NIGERIA • FINANCIAL SERVICES

Infibranches Technologies Limited

Infibranches Technologies Limited is a design thinking company with expertise in Product Development, Business value chain, and Agent Network Management Services with a commitment to taking energy and financial access to the last mile.

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NIGERIA • FINANCIAL SERVICES

TouchandPay

Touch and Pay (TAP) is a financial technology startup focused on simplifying microtransaction payments in West Africa. They have onboarded over a 1.7million customers within 10 months and generated over $200k in monthly recurring revenue at a growth rate of 28% monthly.

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Tunisia winners 2022

TUNISIA • ECOSYSTEM ENABLER

Freelancy

Freelancy is a new Social Freelance Platform that connects created African freelancers with high-value local & international customers DIGITALLY, SAFELY, and LEGALLY.

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TUNISIA • FINANCIAL SERVICES

ITIA

Our company is providing an accessible, modern, and unified alternative payment network for 2.8 million African international students. the users can send/spend & receive money (regardless of currency), pay for goods/services (online or offline), save, and invest, all in a single one-stop-shop.

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TUNISIA • AGRICULTURE

Robocare

Robocare is an agritech providing precision agriculture services from crop disease prevention to crop monitoring. They use proximal sensing and AI technologies to optimise costs and minimize environmental impact.

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TUNISIA • ECOSYSTEM ENABLER

WeRebase

WeRebase is an online platform that enables African tech talents to work with international startups remotely.

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TUNISIA • ECOSYSTEM ENABLER

IPA Switxboard

IPA runs a large Migration program throughout Tunisia providing individual counseling to Migrants, refugees, and youth. They have mapped 14.000 social service providers in Tunisia and built the ecosystem between institutions, associations, and civil society.

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Meet the winners of 2021

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Boosting economic inclusion

Supporting startups from the Middle East and Africa that harness the positive benefits of migration and reduce the vulnerability of migrants.

Make and Impact!

Get support, learn and contribute to the social and economic rights of migrants.

Photos: Seedstars entrepreneurs & Life Shelter

Migration Entreprenurship Prize 2022 Timeline

STEP 1

Launch of Open Call

1 April 2022

STEP 2

Close of Applications

28 May 2021

STEP 3

Startup Training

June / Jan 2023

STEP 4

Startup Screening

15 June 2022

STEP 5

Finalists Interviews

15 July 2022

STEP 6

Winners Announcement

15 August 2022

STEP 7

Investment Readiness Program

September 2022 - March 2023

Program Benefits

SEEDSTARS IRP

Join the Seedstars Investment Readiness Program

SEEDSTARS WORLD COMPETITION

Be part of the Online Seedstars World Competition activities including educational program and access to Seedstars network.

VISIBILITY

Increased visibility and web presence via various media and social media channels.

Project Team

About us

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FDFA's Peace and Human Rights Division (PHRD)

The FDFA's Peace and Human Rights Division (PHRD) is responsible for the promotion of peace and human rights as set out in the Federal Council’s foreign policy strategy. It focuses on the security of the individual and protecting people against violence, war and acts of arbitrary treatment. The PHRD is part of the State Secretariat.

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Seedstars

Seedstars is an investment holding company founded in Switzerland in 2012 with the mission to impact people's lives in emerging markets through entrepreneurship and technology.

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The Migration Entrepreneurship Prize 2022 announces twenty startup winners from Africa and MENA

GLOBAL •

The Migration Entrepreneurship Prize 2022, a program designed for socially driven startups with a mission to enhance the inclusion of migrants in the Middle East and Africa, announces the 20 startup winners of its second cohort.

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA • TECHNOLOGY

The Migration Entrepreneurship Prize, a program designed for startups with a mission to enhance the inclusion of migrants, opens applications once again.

The Migration Entrepreneurship Prize 2022

About the Program

Global Winners 2022

Neqabty

Tech & Identity Solutions Lab Ltd.

CONCAT Tech LTD

H28 Technologies

Flance

AjoMoney

Joovlin

Sidebrief

Chapa Financial Technologies

Edusko

Gigmile

Vesti

iSchool

Infibranches Technologies Limited

TouchandPay

Tunisia winners 2022

Freelancy

ITIA

Robocare

WeRebase

IPA Switxboard

Meet the winners of 2021

Migration Entreprenurship Prize 2022 Timeline

Program Benefits

SEEDSTARS IRP

SEEDSTARS WORLD COMPETITION

VISIBILITY

Project Team

About us

FDFA's Peace and Human Rights Division (PHRD)

Seedstars

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