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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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Global Winners 2021

NIGERIA • FINANCIAL SERVICES

Glade Inc

Glade is a FIntech startup building a modern business banking service, that helps small businesses automate and run their finances effectively.

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NIGERIA • FINANCIAL SERVICES

Toju

We are digitising the bank of the unbanked

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SINGAPORE • FINANCIAL SERVICES

Datacultr Fintech Limited

Risk Mitigation & collections management platform that uses the borrower's smartphone in a very effective manner, that results NPAs by over 67%, making the 'new to credit' a viable segment for financial institutions.

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EGYPT • EDUCATION

EYouth

We offer an educational solutions for underprepared youth in MENA in field of entrepreneurship, career development and personal skills, online interactive learning programs to help youth to go for the labor market or start their own business.

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TURKEY • FINANCIAL SERVICES

Fatora.io Store

Anyone can get an online store in 5 min

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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES • EDUCATION

eFlow Education

eFlow achieves quality and accessible education worldwide by utilizing a smart and interactive educational chatbot that runs on common apps and needs no learning curve or high bandwidth.

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JORDAN • WATER & EDUCATION

Salasil solutions LLC

We provide video and live podcasting authoring tool (Desktop application) for educators to generate and publish e-content as video. our busies module based un subscription

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QATAR • FINANCIAL SERVICES

CWALLET

Cwallet is a blockchain powered mobile money wallet that evolves in 3 basic principles. Payroll. Payment and Remittance. Allowing over 80% of the unbanked population to access online and offline financial services that creates value within economies and business ecosystem.

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SOUTH AFRICA • TECH

BotsZA Projects (Pty) Ltd

Hazie is a platform that provides a seamless application process for first-time candidates applying for employment. It also enables companies to move from a manual candidate screening and sourcing process to an AI-enabled, HR software and Intelligent Business Solution. This solution saves critical time and resources for its clients.

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ISRAEL • FINANCIAL SERVICES

CONFIRMU

ConfirmU is a B2B2C startup that enables lenders to underwrite people who are new to borrowing using a 3 minutes game which is mapped to the loan repayment

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NIGERIA • CONSUMER GOODS & SERVICES

Get It Done Now

Access to Everything, Everyday. Get It Done Now is a marketplace that allows the users to get home services, food, access to finance solutions, insurances and digital consumer goods, all in the same App, aiming the African people.

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SOUTH AFRICA • FINANCIAL SERVICES

abela.app

abela.app is a mobile payments company building an ecosystem to enable people to digitally send, receive, use and save money, creating access to the most basic of financial services. Our platform is cost effective and easy to use, providing our customers with financial autonomy and security they deserve.

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TURKEY • FOOD & BEVERAGES

CraveHome

CraveHome is an online homemade food ordering and delivery platform that connects home cooks with users, creating opportunities for people at home to generate income by linking them to consumers willing to pay for their healthy home-cooked meals.

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Tunisia Winners 2021

HEALTH

Sghartoon

Did you know that 1 on 5 children have educational trouble that leads to them leaving school if not detected, and parent lack of information to be able to know about it and what to do, we offer a platform that helps detect children using games, link them to the nearest therapist to do sessions online that way we can help more than 300 thousand children only in Tunisia and more in the MENA region where we are the first movers in this area.

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TECH

iCompass

"The iCompass team is composed of academics and engineers specialized in Information technology, mathematics and linguistics. The team's services cater to the needs of public and private institutions, as well as public figures and groups in order to assist them with their digital strategic plans, communication and marketing. They work around the clock using the latest technologies, such as digital reputation analysis and evaluation, Chatbot, Churn identification, and other consulting services. ICompass is also unique thanks to its innovative language processing technology; and linguistic barriers are no longer an obstacle for the team. Indeed, they have developed a program that makes it possible to process even Arabic and African dialects."

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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

Global Winners 2021

Glade Inc

Toju

Datacultr Fintech Limited

EYouth

Fatora.io Store

eFlow Education

Salasil solutions LLC

CWALLET

BotsZA Projects (Pty) Ltd

CONFIRMU

Get It Done Now

abela.app

CraveHome

Tunisia Winners 2021

Sghartoon

iCompass

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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