Google Invests in Delivery Science, Three Other Nigerian Startups

Google has invested on four Nigerian startups through its ‘Launchpad Accelerator’ programme.

The four startups include Delivery Science, led by a team of indigenous technology entrepreneurs and offers ‘Enterprise Supply Chain Software as a Service (SaaS)’ solution to companies operating robust logistics and supply chain business processes and Gidi Mobile Limited: gidimo is a mobile learning platform that uses mastery learning & social gamification to deliver personal advancement, in a fun way, and at unprecedented scale.

Others are, Flutterwave: Flutterwave is building technology and infrastructure for digital commerce across Africa starting with Rave, an app that helps merchants accept mobile money, cards and bank account payments across 4 African countries and Paystack: We help businesses in Africa accept payments from their customers.

Launchpad Accelerator is a six-month acceleration program that includes mentorship and access to Google Product Managers, a startup package of equity- free support, product credits (e.g., Google Cloud), and access to our full suite of Launchpad initiatives and connections.

This includes an all-expense-paid trip to Google HQ in Mountain View to collaborate with Google engineers/product managers and regional VCs.

While announcing the fourth class of Launchpad Accelerator featuring new countries, Roy Glasberg, Global Lead, Launchpad Program & Accelerator, said, “We're back at it again and excited to welcome an inspiring group of startups from all over the world for the 4th class of Launchpad Accelerator.

“This time around, startups from Asia and Latin America will be joined by peers from Africa and Europe.

“In addition to expanding our reach, we’re also expanding our curriculum. We’ll help the startups dig deeper into machine learning and AI, to help them leverage Google’s latest technologies to scale their apps”.

Class 4 kicks off July 17th, 2017 at the Google Developers Launchpad Space in San Francisco and will include 2 weeks of all-expense-paid training.

Other startups drawn from Africa, Asia and Latin America include,

Kenya
Twiga Foods Ltd: A tech-enabled sourcing and distribution platform that replaces informal wholesale markets for the millions of small and medium size food and FMCG retailers in Africa's urban markets.

South Africa
JUMO Marketplace: Jumo is the largest scale, lowest cost financial services marketplace for emerging markets

Asia
India: EdGE Networks: HR solutions provider powered by Artificial Intelligence

FastFilmz: The Super App for Super Fans of South Indian movies!

IndiaLends: Credit underwriting and analytics platform for unsecured consumer lending

RailYatri: Intelligent, big data platform that leverages crowd-sourced content to help long distance travelers

RecipeBook: Intelligent solutions in food and retail powered by deep learning computer vision

SigTuple: Smart screening solutions powered by data driven intelligence

Indonesia
NADIPOS: Restaurant Management Platform helping simplify operations and analytics

SIRCLO: Empowering businesses to sell online

Malaysia
HealthMetrics: Assisting companies managing their employee health benefits efficiently and cost effectively

Philippines
BLOOM: Transforming remittance businesses with blockchain technology

Honesty Apps: A Do-it-yourself mobile application platform for both iOS and Android

Singapore
Cicil: We allow Indonesian university students to purchase items online, and pay for them in monthly installments without a credit card!

Thailand
Piggipo: An application that helps users manage and monitor credit card spending more easily and effectively

QueQ: Helps users manage time more wisely at crowded places

Vietnam
eDoctor: Allows users to consult doctors anytime, anywhere

Europe

Czech Republic
Gamee: A social gaming platform

Spendee: Helps users understand their finances

Hungary
PublishDrive: Intelligent SaaS enabled ebook publishing platform to increase sales globally

Poland
DrOmnibus: Multimedia tools that support special needs education and therapy for children with developmental and behavioral disorders

Latin America

Argentina
Increase: Simplifies and modernizes how merchants and companies understand, control and manage their income.

Brazil
Arquivei: Empowers companies with smart data from fiscal documents fetch & analysis

Contabilizei: Tax reporting and accounting SaaS for small businesses in Brazil

Contratado.ME: The marketplace that puts candidates at the center of their job search

Guiche Virtual: The app for booking bus tickets in Brazil

Chile
ComparaOnline: The best and the most transparent marketplace for financial products in Latin America

Mexico
InstaFit Workouts: Mobile fitness subscription platform for Spanish speakers

Switch: Low cost, mobile bill pay.

Benefits
Launchpad Accelerator offers you an unparalleled opportunity to scale your technical startup. The program lasts six months and is done on a scale that leverages all that Google has to offer; including expertise of Google engineers, product managers, and trusted experts in Google’s extended network.

Through Launchpad Accelerator, you can utilize this mentorship and privileged product access to scale your business and better capitalize on local markets, while also tapping into new global opportunities.