We’re happy to announce the 2nd edition of our #TechMarchMadness Challenge which kicks off on March 4th on Tech Labari’s X page.
Modeled after the popular university basketball tournament in the US where fans take part in a “Bracket Challenge” to guess which team will win the tournament, we at Tech Labari came up with our tournament.
About The Challenge
We’ll be pitting African tech companies against each other in an “Ecosystem battle” and the audience and readers decide the winners at the end.
How to Play
To play the tournament, you have to be following our Twitter page where we’ll be having a weekly poll where we pit two tech startups against each other. The audience votes on their favorite startups in the match-up.
Polls will close after one week and the startup with the most votes advances to the next round.
A new poll will go up for the next matchups for the week after, where the audience will vote again on which startup goes to the next round.
This will happen until the final where an eventual winner will be crowned.
The Match Ups
For our 2nd edition, we looked at companies not only in Ghana but in other tech ecosystems.
We matched up companies by similarity and ranked them. So you might see a larger company (Ranked #1) go against a smaller but well-known company (Ranked #16). But don’t be surprised to see a fintech company go against a logistics company
The winner will depend on how readers and the audience votes so the rankings don’t have that much pull.
In total, 32 companies are competing. So here are the matchups and the rankings:
Eastern Division
- (1) Flutterwave vs (16) ANKA
- (2) Paystack vs (15) Zeepay
- (3) ChipperCash vs (14) LemFi
- (4) Moove vs (13) Achieve
- (5) Bamboo vs (12) Hubtel
- (6) Yellow Card vs (11) Glovo
- (7) Risevest vs (10) Express Pay
- (8) Piggyvest vs (9) Yoco
Western Division
- (1) Bolt Food vs (16) Chowdeck
- (2) Fingo vs (15) Djamo
- (3) Jetstream Africa vs (14) Shaq Express
- (4) Kuda vs (13) Swoove
- (5) Tix Africa vs (12) NokNok
- (6) Kora vs (11) Menu Finder
- (7) Solar Taxi vs (10) WeWire
- (8) Wahu Mobility vs (9) Oze
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