After announcing earlier last week that it’s about to launch a seedspace in Cairo, Seedstars conducted its first Cairo event for the startups’ pitch in which 7Keemaa took the award home, followed by Odigo and the third place taken by Hitchhiker.
What a night!; we've officially opened our first Seedspace in MENA, Seedspace Cairo, and chose our Seedstars Cairo 2018 winner !! Congratulations to our first place winner 7keemaa, our second place winner Odigo and the third place winner hitchhiker from #SSWCairo18. pic.twitter.com/Ia4aunZraP
— Seedstars (@Seedstars) May 4, 2018
Romulo Navarrete, head of operations at Seedspace, described the move as a “strategic step” for Seedstars which will help the organization to get closer to the community that it has helped forge over the last years. Seedspace currently has seven hubs: two in Geneva, Switzerland (La Chevillarde and La Praille); one in Lagos, Nigeria; another one in Abidjan, Ivory Coast; one in Cape Town, South Africa and two in Colombia (Bogota and Medellin).
@7keema just finished pitching stay tuned for the rest of the startups. #SSWCairo18 pic.twitter.com/Mr8en2Mgey
— EgyptInnovate (@EgyptInnovate) May 4, 2018
