TEF alumni

Vacay Holiday Deals is allowing travelers to be their own agents by selling inventory from over 500 airlines and 500,000 hotels globally under one website. This reduces the hustle of searching or calling different providers plus provides convenience of 24/7 service available to anyone with internet access.

Africar Logistics Limited has been providing logistics services for the last seven years, but now we have a big challenge in meeting the door to door delivery needs for our customers, so we have expanded our services to include an end to end solution called \ one stop \ services.

Dr. Adereni Abiodun is the founder and CEO of HelpMum on a mission to reduce maternal and infant mortality in Nigeria.

During the covid-19 pandemic, HelpMum began the distribution of 10,000 face masks to nurses and traditional birth attendants in primary health centres and rural areas, as well as pregnant women and nursing mothers in underserved communities. The HelpMum face mask was also included in the HelpMum clean birth kits to protect nurses, traditional birth attendants and community health workers to ensure safe and hygienic delivery in rural and underserved areas during the pandemic.

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Edmond Nonie’s father built a house in Sierra Leone whilst teaching as a lecturer abroad and during this process, he lost thousands of dollars to unscrupulous contractors. This gave birth to the idea of developing a service that made that story a thing of the past.

About Track Your Build

Track Your Build is the leading service in Sierra Leone for land and construction surveying using drones. They have become experts in topographical mapping for crisis and response.

Track Your Build was launched with the aim of providing reliable, transparent and cost-saving service to monitor construction on behalf of clients living overseas. After realizing that drones have become a superior tool for land surveying where GPS points and various land measurements could be taken with more accuracy, they began using drones as tools to improve the pictorial updates of building progress.

On the 14th of August, 2017, Sierra Leone was ravaged by a series of landslides with the most terrible occurring at the Mount Sugarloaf mountain complex. The UN country team called the Track Your Build team to provide mapping support for the response efforts. Over a period of 3 weeks, they mapped 9 sites and provided risk assessment images and videos for an additional 5 sites. Their work was instrumental in reducing the damage of the landslides by providing the ground-truth data needed to back up the Satellite maps generated by the UN.

Currently, Track Your Build is operational in Sierra Leone and Nigeria.

DirectPay Group SA is a company founded in 2014 with a capital of 10 000 000 F CFA. The business is an innovative solution that facilitates électronic trade across all online platforms. To this end, it created the OwoPay platform to aggregate all means of payment. In doing so, it maximizes the chain of values of e-merchants .

Cape Verdean entrepreneur Erico Pinheiro Fortes founded PrimeBotics to develop versatile drones that deliver customised technological solutions to farmers, governments & non-governmental institutions related to agriculture in Africa and around the world.⁣

With the global COVID-19 crisis, Erico and his partner are refocusing PrimeBotics with new solutions to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in Cape Verde. Their idea involvess the use of drones to disinfect streets, deliver medical & non-medical supplies, and produce 3D-printed face shields for hospitals. ⁣

With PrimeBotics’s current production capacity of 20-30 face shields a day, he seeks partners to upscale his impact in Cape Verde.

Realtime Fifty Four Holdings is a graphic design, printing, branding and publishing company that offers cutting edge solutions to all visual communication needs. Over the years Realtime54 has distinguished itself as a visuals communications provider of repute handling heavy and demanding work volumes. We also have a training centre where we produce high quality professionals in the areas of graphic design, branding, print technology, communication and publishing.

Flavien Kouatcha is a young engineer who is the head of Save Our Agriculture, a company specializing in aquaponics, a system that allows the cultivation of plants and the breeding of fish in the same device. Using fish droppings he is able to create a natural fertilizer for plant growth. Through the Save Our Agriculture system they are able to create organic gardens with produce such as tomatoes, lettuce, peppers, okra, but also catfish. Flavien Kouatcha markets its aquaponics units to individuals and professionals in urban areas. The advantage of his solution is that it makes it possible to obtain larger productions than in traditional agriculture, using fewer resources. For example, his urban aquaponics units help smallholder farmers grow 2 to 3 times more volumes of organic food by using only 10% of the water used by traditional agriculture on the same space. Since completing the TEF Programme, Flavien Kouatcha has achieved a turnover of over $120,000 and employed 18 people directly and 42 indirectly.

Gravity Rwanda is a hub of Digital Arts and Design specialized in Animations and Tv commercials, It is organized by students at the university of Rwanda while pursuing their bachelors degree of media design with the mission to use Creativity and innovation as a tool of development in the private sector.

Sperie Integrated Services is an apparel manufacturing, promotional branding, and printing company that provides printing and branding solutions for businesses.

Gravity Rwanda is a marketing and branding company providing and visual designs: website design, Logos and Design consulting services: marketing campaigns, delivering eye-catching brand identity and creative visual design that attracts viewers to businesses.

Gaone Ditsele’s business Green Packaging is centred around the production of biodegradable plastic bags and bottles. Gaone’s business works to eliminate problems of land pollution, and minimise waste volume at landfills to ensure they not fatal to animal life.

Botswana entrepreneur Geofrey Olekile provides animation and television content to be sold to the local, regional and international content distributors. He Started Curio Media Commons Animation to fill the gap in the industry with cartoons made with an African flair.

Gofaone Mokgethisi is the founder of Utick Online, a company providing secure access control and zero ticket fraud using RFID wristbands as tickets.

The company has covered over 400 annual events (sports, conferences, exhibitions, music concerts), 360 000 attendees and has at least BWP 150 000 000 in capital investment injected into the event business annually.

Hamadou Daouda, a Niger-based entrepreneur and beneficiary of the Tony Elumelu Foundation discovered a solution to connect his community with relevant information.

He launched a free service, by his company Novatech, in March, which allows the entire population in Niger to call and get advice on how to prevent COVID-19 in the 5 national languages.

The platform received over 4,000 telephone calls from all over Niger and was validated by the Ministry of Health in Niger.

Harun Abubakar Ibrahim is the founder of Haigha Tech, a company that provides a one-stop automated solution for trade and industry. The company caters to various sizes and fields of organizations with different products and services to meet their preferred requirements.

Haigha Tech began its business operation as a hardware and software solutions providing company in January 2017. It focuses exclusively in high quality and cost-effective software development and implementation of services.

Harun Abubakar Ibrahim is an ICRC-sponsored entrepreneur.

Africa’s insured population stands at just 2% of 1.2billion people. To drive up the numbers, Co-founder/CEO of Curacle Systems, Henry Masco is focused on insurance inclusion in emerging markets across the African continent.

Curacel Systems, an AI-powered claims management and fraud detection system for health insurers is helping insurers reduce fraud, fast-track claims processing while helping health providers get their payments faster through a series of end-to-end validation processes.

Now, the company has secured insurers like Hallmark HMO and Old Mutual, and employs up to 65 people directly and indirectly.”

While he was at the ideation stage for his business, Hoda Kouakou Steve applied for the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme. Being a part of the programme enlightened him to better understand his idea; structure it and to formalize the company. The seed capital enabled him to launch business activities and conduct various tests on their solutions.

His enterprise, Afririce, enables producers who are frustrated and stressed by the difficulty of threshing-winnowing an easier solution with their thresher-winnower. Originally intended for rice, the machine is now suitable for threshing and winnowing soybeans, which is most suitable as in recent years, Benin has seen a rise in soybean production.

In 2018, the solution was presented at the Innovation Symposium in Rome at FAO headquarters, where Steve and his team were ranked among FAO’s 20 Success Stories in hunger-reduction. The team has been selected by the American Government through the USADF to benefit from the funding of approximately $100,000 to mechanize agricultural operations in 3 large rice and soybean production zones in Benin. The project, planned for 2 years, will also make it possible to digitize the Agricultural Council in the cereal sectors.

From a Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur, straight to global domination!

Ibrahim Mohammed Aboki is an award-winning social entrepreneur, business development consultant and CEO of Fatara Farms – a business that specialises in providing low-in-come farmers with an affordable, accessible and easy comprehensive solar solution to use for their farming activities;

Since receiving the seed funding from the Tony Elumelu Foundation, Fatara Farms has empowered 5,642 smallholder farmers and reduced Nigeria’s northeast unemployment rate and food insecurity to 0.5% and 0.3% respectively.

Ilesanmi Olalekan is the Founder and CEO fo Wocman – an ICT solution that connects customers to nearest artisans, freelance professionals and local suppliers of household repairable to help execute construction, repairs and domestic works with just a tab on their mobile phones.

Since he received the seed capital funding from TEF, Olalekan has been able to increase his staff strength and commence the design and development of the Wocman website and mobile app.

Total School Assistant (TSA) caters to all the data processing and information management needs found in any type school, such as general human resource data, student biodata, financial data and so on. TSA also diversifies by completing a number of other applications that use the same concept of integrated biometrics with wireless connections but in very different implementations. This includes: general human resource and payroll applications, biometric university cafeteria management system, etc. We are currently in the process of making further technological advancements to our initial concept by incorporating iris recognition biometrics to the current setting.

Zai Vet Centre Company Ltd Increases Income Of People Through Livestock Keeping Specifically Dairy Cow,Pigs And Local Chicken By Enabling Farmers To Access Inputs At Cheaper Prices And Providing Them With Skills Regularly.

As a seasoned Brand Strategist and Multimedia Designer professional with over 8 years of experience, James Strauss decided to launch a 360 Media company in Namibia in 2019 to assist companies with their digital marketing needs.

The Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme gave him the much-needed support he required to make a commitment of such magnitude. He knew Nasmalust was a viable business opportunity when digital marketing and media began to trend in Africa. Most brands were adopting the US and Europe-based approach to marketing to Africans, and his vision was to change that and make it more authentic by adding Afrocentric elements.

During the 2020 State of Emergency in Namibia as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, Nasmalust was registered as an essential service company, making it among the very few companies that could assist public organizations with the distribution of information relating to Covid-19.

For James, his greatest challenge has been his desire to scale the business and become the digital media giant he plans for it to be. He is constantly contracting jobs to young videographers, photographers, and marketing professionals and providing Namibians with local content through their work with local brands.