Kenyan enterprises have claimed the top two spots at the recently held Sankalp Africa Awards 2024.
- The top spot went to Toothpick Company, an Agri enterprise focused on reducing chemical pesticide use and improving safety, affordability and effectiveness.
- The 1st Runner Up was Keep IT Cool, an Agri enterprise from Kenya which provides proximate refrigerated cooling boxes and transport to smallholder fishermen and fish farmers in East Africa.
- There were 11 promising finalist startups at the Sankalp Africa Awards 2024, with 7 hailing from Kenya.
“Winning this award is an opportunity for us to showcase an innovation which opens the eyes of the new styles of weed management. We are proud of our strong ability to work with farmers on the ground, enabling us to move from a super high-tech innovation to actually delivering for Kenyan farmers, and African farmers as a whole,” said Claire Sands-Baker of the Toothpick Company.
The 2nd Runner Up went to MedTrack, a healthcare enterprise from Ghana who are centralizing access to patient information by linking it to national biometric IDs, easing the process of transfer of health data across multiple care points by patients and health providers
The Ecosystem Award Winner went to Agrosahas International Private Ltd., an Agri enterprise from Uganda that works with 10,000 farmers through their proprietary tech-driven platform.
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