Designed to provide startups with essential support from Africa Technology Expo (ATE) partners, the event is a platform for innovative startups to gain global recognition even as they receive insights to sharpen their solutions.

From a pool of 200 applications, 10 startups were chosen to present their business ideas to a panel of esteemed judges, which included Fola Olatunji David, Investor and Founding Partner at Kickoff Africa; Arinze Obeizue, VC at Future Africa; Damilola Teidi Ayoola, Head of Platforms & Networks at Ventures Platform; Victor Sada, Head of Ventures & M&A at Interswitch; and Teslim Babatunde, Manager/Team Lead for Fintech and Telecoms at Fidelity Bank Plc.

Selected startups at the ATE 2024 were:

1. Bunce: A Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) startup founded in 2021, Bunce offers a comprehensive platform for business management, including CRM, project management, and analytics tools tailored for small and medium-sized enterprises. The customer engagement platform’s innovative solutions aim to simplify business operations and enhance productivity.
2. Flowmono: Founded in 2022, Flowmono is a B2B SaaS startup providing automation solutions for workflow management. The company helps businesses optimize their processes by integrating various tools and applications into a single, cohesive system, reducing operational inefficiencies.
3. Innocul8: Established in 2022, Innocul8 is a digital health startup focused on providing preventive healthcare solutions through innovative digital platforms. The healthtech offers personalized health recommendations and monitoring services, leveraging AI and machine learning to predict and prevent health issues before they arise.
4. Pasby: Launched in 2023, Pasby is a data and AI startup that specializes in predictive analytics and data visualization tools. The platform helps businesses make data-driven decisions by providing insights and forecasts based on real-time data analysis.
5. Raize: A fintech startup founded in 2023, Raize offers innovative financial services aimed at improving financial inclusion and seamless cross-border payments. The platform provides digital banking solutions, and investment opportunities to underserved populations, leveraging technology to simplify financial transactions.
6. Sync!: Founded in 2021, Sync! is an IT SaaS startup that offers synchronization and integration services for various software applications, enhancing project management, among other offerings. The platform ensures seamless data flow and connectivity between different systems, enhancing operational efficiency for businesses.
7. Pioneon: An AI startup founded in 2024, Pioneon develops cutting-edge artificial intelligence solutions for various industries, including healthcare, finance, and retail. The company’s AI-powered products aim to solve complex problems and improve decision-making processes.
8. RootsHive: Established in 2022, RootsHive is a fintech startup enhancing the business industry with its comprehensive suite of tools. The platform enables businesses to understand trends, analyze customer behaviours, segment customers, track transactions, monitor fraud, manage spending patterns, and facilitate payments and payouts. 
9. The Adulawo: Founded in 2022, The Adulawo is an arts, culture, and tourism startup that promotes African heritage. The startup offers tours, cultural experiences, and a marketplace for African art and crafts, aiming to preserve and showcase the continent’s rich cultural diversity.
10. BeautySpace: Launched in 2024, BeautySpace is a beautytech startup that combines technology with beauty services. The platform connects users with beauty professionals, offers personalized beauty recommendations, and provides virtual makeover tools, enhancing the beauty industry and building brands.

At the ATE 2024, Bunce emerged as the winner of the Africa Pitch Battleground, showcasing outstanding potential and innovation in the Software-as-a-Service sector.

Sync! referred to as an innovation where “projects meet progress,” offers users features like talent sourcing, gig management, progress tracking, and communication management.

Quick look at the product:

Sync! – an all-in-one toolkit for managing teams and processes is revolutionarily designed to reduce anxiety for employers and project owners, while simultaneously empowering employees and freelancers.

Sync! Accountability at its Finest

It is a simplified all-in-one toolkit for managing teams and processes. With this solution, you can bid farewell to the chaos and resentment that comes with managing a team and welcome synergy and accountability.

Where Projects Meet Progress

In any successful endeavour, alignment is key. Sync! Is designed to ensure everyone on your team shares a common understanding of the mission, purpose, and the urgency of tasks. No more miscommunication missed opportunities or excuses. With Sync! you’ll build a cohesive team ready to tackle any challenge.

Why you need Sync!

Your people are your most valuable asset. It helps you leverage their talent and capital effectively, so you can meet your goals and drive results. It’s like having a personal efficiency expert at your fingertips. 

Speaking during the product launch, Princess Edokpayi, the Co-founder of Spurt!, expressed her excitement about the features.

She emphasised Spurt!’s dedication to building accessible and affordable digital tools that enhance productivity.

Sync! is designed to simplify every aspect of business operations, save time, reduce errors, and allocate resources efficiently, especially for Micro, Small, and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs).

“When we founded this company, we set out with a different mindset, one that was not solely focused on gaining market share, raising capital or achieving rapid growth, instead, it started as a commitment to building sustainable, self-sufficient businesses, using technology in every area of business that we could imagine. We did not need to merely replicate what has been done before, but explored new ideas, creating experiences that truly enhanced the productivity of entrepreneurs and their team.

For us, MSMEs became the canvas of our dreams. We were truly convinced that by building a tool to simplify and streamline every aspect of business operations can enhance the efficiency of tasks like project management, team collaboration and document organization,” she said.

Sync! has officially transitioned from beta to a fully-fledged tool. Spurt!’s journey began with a commitment to creating sustainable and self-sufficient businesses through technology. Their focus on enhancing efficiency, productivity, and innovation led to the development of Sync!

Spurt!’s community played a crucial role in shaping Sync! providing valuable feedback and insights. The tool evolved with major updates, making it more robust and inclusive. Sync! is not just about task assignment; it also enables tracking, quality checking, and efficient team management.

Sync! offers a range of features, including team collaboration, group and private messaging, team process management, milestone assignment, progress monitoring, and talent sourcing from a freelancer marketplace. It features a redesigned dashboard for a smoother user experience, enhanced security, bulk team member invitations, a dollar wallet for earnings, project reminders, and more.

Kristin Wilson, one of Spurt!’s Founders, highlighted Sync!’s role in team communication, milestone feedback, and engagement. The Marketplace feature helps users find suitable team members based on project requirements.

“Within the context of your project, there’s team communication, you have team chat feature, milestone level feedback and milestone level engagement. You can reject a milestone and send feedback on why it was rejected or accept and give feedback too. 

Once a milestone is completed, it can be marked complete. That’s the idea of end-to-end Sync as Sync! for team collaborations.” Kristin Wilson, explained.

As noted by Aminat Amoo, Spurt!’s third founder, businesses that have embraced Sync! report improved productivity, efficient tracking of deliverables and progress, and seamless project management, communication, goal setting, scheduling, and payments.

Sync! by Spurt! is more than just a tool; it’s a catalyst for businesses to thrive and succeed in today’s fast-paced digital landscape.

As a business owner, you know the struggle is real. Coordinating schedules feels like herding cats, and keeping track of tasks and payments can make even a Zen master lose their cool.

But Sync! is designed to bring order to the chaos, making you feel like you’ve just gained superpowers in team management.

Don’t just take our word for it—experience the magic yourself by attending the Sync! launch.

The solution will definitely enable freedom and accountability for employees and freelancers alike.

Spurt! the company behind the innovation is notable for facilitating a new wave of socioeconomic growth across the continent by enabling entrepreneurs with resources, skills and insights.

The company develops technology solutions to make businesses more efficient, more strategic and more profitable and that is exactly what Spurt! will do for the end users.

Where Projects Meet Progress

In any successful endeavour, alignment is key. Sync! Is designed to ensure everyone on your team shares a common understanding of the mission, purpose, and the urgency of tasks. No more miscommunication missed opportunities or excuses. With Sync! you’ll build a cohesive team ready to tackle any challenge.

Sync! Accountability at its Finest

Let’s give you a snippet about Sync!

It is a simplified all-in-one toolkit for managing teams and processes. With this solution, you can bid farewell to the chaos and resentment that comes with managing a team and welcome synergy and accountability.

Why you need Sync!

Your people are your most valuable asset. It helps you leverage their talent and capital effectively, so you can meet your goals and drive results. It’s like having a personal efficiency expert at your fingertips. 

So, come Thursday, September 28th, 2023, Sync! will be unveiled to the world. We Can only tell you, anticipate!

Register here to attend.