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Nigerian startup emerges winner in African Space-Tech competition 

Ehime Alex by Ehime Alex
February 19, 2021
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Nigeria’s FieldDev Group, an agribusiness-focused geographic information systems mapping provider, has emerged winner in the ‘2020 Space-Tech Earth Observation Innovation Challenge’.

According to a statement on Friday, the startup was joined in third place by Rwanda’s HeHe, which uses remote sensing technology to forecast post-harvest demand for crops.

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The competition, organised by the South African National Space Agency in partnership with other agencies, was aimed to develop early-stage African tech startups that utilise downstream applications of space technology in the agriculture, insurance, retail, and sustainability and conservation industries.

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The statement said the companies won SecureWatch Premium 2GB, valid for three months to the value of $5,000.

It also stated that the startups won access to a four-month online incubation and virtual mentorship and ongoing access to a peer-to-peer network through the TechTribe Accelerator.

The first-place winner was South Africa’s Hydro Blu, a geospatial data science company established to increase borehole drilling accuracy. It received a SecureWatch Premium 5GB valid for three months to the value of $12,500.

Coming second was South Africa’s Smart AgrIoT, a cloud-based farm management platform.

The next iteration of the Space-Tech challenge in 2021 is expected to promote new entrants and entrepreneurs across the industry value chain.

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