We are pleased to announce the 2nd edition of the #TechMarchMadness Challenge starting on March 4th at Tech Labari’s X page.
Modeled after the popular US college basketball tournament where fans participate in a ‘Bracket Challenge’ to guess which team will win the tournament, we at Tech Labari have come up with our own.
About the challenge
We will pit African tech companies against each other in an βecosystem battleβ and the audience and readers will decide the winners in the end.
How to play
To play the tournament, you must follow ours Twitter page where we will have a weekly poll pitting two tech startups against each other. The public votes for their favorite startups in the match-up.
The polls will close after one week and the startup with the most votes advances to the next round.
A new poll will be held for the next matches next week, where the public will again vote on which startup will go to the next round.
This will happen until the final where a final winner will be crowned.
The Match Ups
For our 2nd edition, we looked at companies not only in Ghana but also in other tech ecosystems.
We matched companies based on similarity and ranked them. So you might see a larger company (Rank #1) going up against a smaller but well-known company (Rank #16). But don’t be surprised if you see a fintech company going up against a logistics company
The winner will depend on how readers and the public vote, so the ranking doesn’t have that much traction.
A total of 32 companies are competing. So here are the matches and the ranking:
Eastern Division
- (1) Flutterwave vs. (16) ANKA
- (2) Paystack vs. (15) Zeepay
- (3) ChipperCash vs. (14) LemFi
- (4) Movement vs. (13) Accomplish
- (5) Bamboo vs. (12) Hubtel
- (6) Yellow card vs. (11) Globo
- (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) Kunda vs. (13) Swoove
- (5) Tix Africa vs. (12) Knock Knock
- (6) Crust vs. (11) Find menu
- (7) Solar Taxi vs. (10) WeWire
- (8) Wahu Mobility vs. (9) Oze
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