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Eight Nigerian Startups Make Google For Startups Accelerator Africa Class 5

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Eight Nigerian Startups Make Google For Startups Accelerator Africa Class 5

Google for Startups Accelerator Africa is an initiative launched by Google for top-seed stage African startups. The program supports early-stage African startups via mentorship and financing.

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Google for startups accelerator 2020

Google recently announced its fifth cohort of selected startups and disclosed new developments for the program, stating that it would now proceed online due to the ongoing pandemic.

The selected pool of startups for the 2020 program are from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia, and Zimbabwe. As part of the cohort, 8 startups are participating from Nigeria: Crop2Cash, Curacel, Festival Coins, Judy, Send, Stears Business, The Smarthub and Credpal.

Credpal develops consumer credit infrastructure to ease consumer credit purchase and enable retail businesses to provide on-demand credit for consumers in Africa. Visit https://credpal.com/ to learn more.

Credpal

Curacel is a startup focused on Claims & Fraud Detection Platform for African Insurers. Visit https://curacel.co/ to learn more.

Crop2Cash has created an accessible platform for farmers, making it possible for them to pay, get paid, access agricultural credit via USSD while assuring financial institutions of their lending capital in Nigeria. Visit https://www.crop2cash.com.ng/ to learn more.

Judy is a legal startup offering a smart, comprehensive database of African case laws and legislation. Visit https://www.judy.legal/ to learn more.

Legal startup Judy

Smarthub provides quality trainings in the form of online courses and offers services in the areas of food and health, digital marketing and automobile design. Visit http://thesmarthub.com.ng/ to learn more.

Festival Coins provides technology solutions for live events. Stears business is committed to providing quality information on Africa in an easily accessible way and Send handles cargo shipping across the air and ocean with an improved innovative system. Visit https://www.getfestivalcoins.com/ to learn more.

Stears Business –  is a digital media company that set out to provide quality information on Africa in an easily accessible way. Visit https://www.stearsng.com/ to learn more.

Send handles cargo shipping across the air and ocean. It also involves in delivering cargoes from suppliers, handling customs clearance, trucking and warehousing. Visit https://www.send.ng/ to learn more.

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The program will run for the 3 months with equity-free support access to google engineers and intensive mentoring from 20+ teams, access to Silicon Valley experts and top local mentors, PR training and global media opportunities, close partnership with Google for three months, with a one week ‘virtual bootcamp’ per month, from June 29 until September 11, 2020.

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