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Vèna Ahouansou

Joshua Praise — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 10:59:56 +0000

Arielle is a 23 years old medical doctor who has a vocation to enhance the healthcare system in Africa by providing technological solutions through her startup KEA Medicals Pharmaceutics & Technologies. Her start-up currently provides a range of services, including the possibility of consulting a patient’s records online and the creation of a Universal Medical Identity (UMI), a sort of individual data file on each patient. Through her company, patients are prompted to create an account on the platform, by providing basic information such as their identity, known allergies, chronic illnesses, blood type, etc. Once registered, each patient receives an individual UMI signature in the form of a QR barcode. This barcode can be printed on different media and devices: wristbands, patches, cards and other portable devices. The doctor only has to scan the patient’s QR code to access his or her entire medical history within a matter of seconds. No more time wasted.

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Hoda Kouakou Steve

Joshua Praise — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 10:55:32 +0000

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!

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Norbert Dazogbo

Joshua Praise — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 20:34:54 +0000

Norbert Dazogbo is an agripreneur and member of Societe Internationale de Negoce et de Realisation (SINERA). He completed his academic training in France in 1972 as an agronomist.

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Tania Conforte Ismene Attiba

Joshua Praise — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 18:07:57 +0000

Tania Conforte Ismene is the founder of Connexences and an entrepreneur in the fruit juice sector and capacity building sector.

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Elie Houessou

Joshua Praise — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 17:53:08 +0000

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 .

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Jean-Hugues Houinsou

Joshua Praise — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 07:04:36 +0000

Jean- Hugues is the Founder of La Vedette, a media agency in Benin that specialises in social media marketing, search engine advertising and display networks affiliated with Google, website development. Since Jean-Hugues completed the TEF Programme, he has been able to set up a physical location for La Vedette, employ 4 people, develop the targeted communication and online sales service using an application and generated a revenue of $2,700.

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Vital Sounouvou

Joshua Praise — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 10:54:45 +0000

Sounouvou founded Exportunity, a site that promotes export opportunities for Africans by connecting producers with traders. It allows a farmer in Benin to sell his produce to a buyer in South Africa – or the United States – through a cell phone. Through the trade events, Sounouvou has engaged over 750 clients, and built a database of 85,000 companies trading with Africa. He also employs 32 people.

Exportunity is an online platform that promotes export opportunities for Africans by connecting producers with traders. It allows a farmer in Benin to sell his produce to a buyer in South Africa – or the United States – through a cell phone

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