And the Winner’s are!!!
Two days that saw 25 exciting Pitches, 5 Category winners and 1 overall Winner: Congratulations to the winners: 1) Applications in Mobile Payments and Commerce – Mshop 2) Applications in Mobile Entertainment, Gaming and Utilities – Whive 3) Applications in Mobile Business and Enterprise – Uhasibu 4) Applications in Mobile Govt: Agriculture and Education – SchoolSMS 5) Applications in Mobile Health: MEDKenya OVERALL WINNER: MEDKENYA Congratulations to all the winners!!! We will be updating this blog with more news on the winners as well as Photos from the event. A...
read morePivot 25 has arrived!!
With Pivot25 only a day away, the excitement is really starting to build here in Nairobi. The finalists submitted their final pitch decks and have been through intense rehersalst, and we are really impressed with what they have brought to the table. We have a few exciting things we’d like to share with you here before Pivot25. It seems like every day a new investor or member of the media contacts us sharing how much they’re looking forward to the event. This is great for Pivot25, but even better for the finalists. The sole motive behind this event was to give the top-tier mobile...
read moreMore on PIVOT25 Competition Finalists
A week ago we announced names of 25 finalists for PIVOT25. The finalists are now preparing to pitch their mobile applications at the conference in June 14th and 15th. Among the finalist are 2 entries from Rwanda, 1 from Uganda and 1 from Tanzania. More information about the finalist applications is availed below. Applications in Mobile Payments and Mobile Commerce Kopo Kopo by Kopo Kopo, Inc – A software-as-a-service mobile payment gateway for small and medium sized enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa. The service is available on a pay-as-you-go basis.Jamobi by OTB Africa Limited –...
read morePivot 25 Partners with Afri-Tech to jointly promote Events
Pivot25 and Afri-Tech have partnered to jointly market both Events. The Afri-Tech summit on ‘Digital and Internet Marketing’ to be held in Kenya (June, 2011) is most appropriately timed considering the resurgence of Africa as one of the most untapped business destination. Outstanding business luminaries, philanthropists, government decision makers and one of the greatest NBA players of all time (Dikembe Mutombo) will be participating in this four day historic conference. The spotlight in this year’s conference in Nairobi (Kenya) will be on ‘Internet and Digital’ marketing. It is...
read moreThe 25 companies are selected!
25 companies in five categories have been selected to compete in the pivot25 competition scheduled for June 14th – 15th 2011. The selection was very competitive with many high potential and high quality entries. The selection committee expressed that they had a very difficult task coming up with a final list for this reason. Below are the 25 companies and their applications Application in Mobile Payments and Commerce Kopo Kopo Inc. Jamobi Zege Technologies (mPayer) Nyaruka (Bizito) – from Rwanda M-Shop Applications in Entertainment, Gaming and Utilities Websimba Ltd (Eat Out...
read moreAnnouncement of Pivot 25 Contestants
We have been overwhelmed with the number of entries that we have received. The judging committee has had a hard time coming up with the best applications. This says a lot for the caliber of entries that we have received. We must take this opportunity to congratulate all those that made the effort to enter the competition. We only wish that we could showcase all your wonderful Entries. The announcement of the top 25 will therefore be made on May 5th 2011. Stay Tuned!!!
read moreCompetition Entries are in!!
What a final rush to meet the 15th of April deadline for entry submission for Pivot25. We are truly impressed with the response. There is no doubt that the East African Mobile Developer community is strong. The hard work now begins, and we are excited to go through all the entries. We are very impressed with some of the quality of Entries and it’s going to be very hard to come up with the top 5 Companies in each Category. We only wish that we could give everyone an opportunity to showcase their applications at the event. I recently came across an article in the Forbes Magazine titled...
read moreOVERALL WINNER GETS TO GO TO DEMO
More Great News!! Our good friends at DEMO have just announced that the Overall Winner of Pivot25 will get a free pass to Pitch their Applications at DEMO. What is DEMO? – The feel you get when you enter the ballroom at DEMO is unlike any other conference. Each company is given just six minutes on the DEMO stage to truly demonstrate how their product will change the world. No PowerPoint or flashy corporate presentations allowed. Just the founders and the technologies many are staking their careers on… it doesn’t get any more straightforward and fast paced than that. While the DEMO...
read moreIT’S RAINING PHONES!!!
As we get closer to the event the good news for entrants to the Competition keeps getting better. Nokia has just announced that all 25 Participants will receive a brand new N8 Nokia Phone!!! We would like to thank Nokia for their continued support of the developer community and hope to see more Companies come forward. We will be announcing some more great prizes...
read morePivot 25
It gives me great pleasure to welcome you all to the Pivot25 website. Pivot25 is a one of a kind Conference and Competition. Spread over two days, on the 14th and 15th of June at the Ole-Sereni Hotel, Pivot25 will showcase developer talent and applications from across the East African region. So why now and why the name Pivot25? Well it’s quiet simple. The Continent and the region is at the cross-roads of a technology revolution. A revolution that is able to propel it and it’s citizens out of the often seen cloudy crystal ball of poverty, corruption, wars, famine, doom and...
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Pivot25 is an mlab initiative to bring focus on the Mobile developer and entrepreneur community in East Africa.