Ghana Agric Start-up, Qualitrace Wins Ghana Innov8Agric Challenge… Qualitrace, a traceability and anti-counterfeiting startup that uses track and trace technology to authenticate product farm inputs and outputs has emerged winner of Ghana edition of Innova8Agric Challenge of the Meet the Farmers Conference, MTFC 2018, and will now compete at the grand finale of Meet the Farmers Conference, Dubai for up to US$5,000 grant price.
Accounteer, E-pump and Termii Win Lagos Leg of Demo Africa 2018… The three emerging start-ups will compete with other West African regional winners for a shot at the Demo Africa finale in Morocco. The regional finalists will be announced in August.
Meanwhile, IBM Has Launched Blockchain Starter Pack For Startups… American multinational technology company, IBM has launched a blockchain starter pack designed to make it easier and more affordable for startups and developers to quickly begin building blockchain applications.
Let’s digress a little bit to China. Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can write 20,000 lines of advertising copy per second.
Nigerian micro-lending start-up, Paylater has launched “PayVest”, a fixed-interest investment product that allows users “invest” for interest rates of up to 15%.
That’s all for today. See you tomorrow.
