PIVOT EAST 5th-6th JUNE 2012 OLE SERENI HOTEL
Pivot East is a mobile applications competition culminating
in a pitching conference where 25 of East Africa's top mobile entrepreneurs
pitch their products to an audience of over 300 people. Contestants have a
chance of winning cash prizes and exposing their work to local and global
investors, media and prospective clients.
- Opportunities of
entrepreneurship in the East Africa Region
- Financing
challenges in the regional technological scene
- Role of corporates in
stimulating innovation
- Social impact and
the Social enterprise
- Role of innovation
in driving the regional economy
Categories and Finalists
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| App. | Description | Company |
| Changamka | A crowd funding platform aiming at pooling funds from the community to finance promising creative or social change initiatives and projects. | Roverscompass Enterprise Ltd |
| mCollector | An app based on the use of mobile money to send bulk payment from a group to the Micro Finance Institutions. | Software Group Ke Ltd |
| Pay4Us | An app that unites mobile money and micro-finance by offering financial collaboration. | Zege Technologies Ltd |
| SchoolBursar | Streamlines the process of receiving and managing payments at schools through M-Pesa. | Fomobi Solutions |
| Chamapro | A platform that helps informal financial self-help groups and savings clubs digitise their information management and record keeping. | Bityarn Consult Company Ltd |
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| App. | Description | Company |
| Get-it! App | An app that enables people to locate restaurants on the go. | Sail Ltd |
| Dairy Sacco App | A mobile credit tool for agricultural cooperatives that provides inputs and merchandise to their members on credit against produce deliveries. | Infocentra Ltd |
| Bei Nafuu | A platform that integrates money transfer and delivery of goods and services. | Bei Nafuu Ltd |
| Easy Order | SMS based ordering and supply chain management application that simplifies the way customers order for goods from manufacturers and distributors. | Easy Order Operations |
| SMS Based Health Insurance Members Verification | Verification system for health insurance of members when they go to access services at hospitals. | Multics Systems Co.Ltd |
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| App. | Description | Company |
| TUBET | Enables users especially football fans to place and collect bets. | Squad Digital Ltd |
| Ma3racer | A racing game set on the busy Nairobi highways. | Planet Rackus Ltd |
| Mingle | A chat app | Dotideas Technology Ltd |
| Run For Afrika | A game that takes you through the African jungle with the task of finding a wife. | Run For Afrika Ltd |
| Tough Jungle | An action game app with an african jungle setting. | Elan Telemedia Ltd |
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| App. | Description | Company |
| MPrep | An SMS-based study solution for students, teachers, and schools. | M-Prep Ltd |
| eLimu | An ed-tech initiative that is focused on primary school education. | Elimu Foundation |
| StorySpaces | A digital storytelling portal. | The Kuyu Project |
| mpoultry | Brooder poultry monitoring using a mobile phone. | MLFocus (U) Ltd |
| Sarura | An application which provides weather updates and agricultural advice to farmers. | Osca Connect Ltd |
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| App. | Description | Company |
| Crowdpesa | Location based service that enables its users to find the nearest financial and retail services. | Space Kenya Networks Ltd. |
| Mafuta Go | Helps users find the nearest fuel stations with the prices and services that best suit their needs. | AppsDivision Ltd |
| 6ix degrees | A system that allows users to back up all their contacts and later restore them when need arises. | Binary Science Ltd |
| mTracker | An app that enables users manage security of their possessions. | Fomobi Solutions |
| m-verified | An application that verifies a document's legitimacy. | Mobilab Ltd |
Speakers
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Judges
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Alumni Mentors
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