BonBilloโ€™s Social Entrepreneurship Newsletter

December 2020 - Soga Oni won $250K at Africa's Business Heroes 2020

Written by Mischke Le Cordeur | Dec 1, 2020 6:25:00 AM

Wishing you and yours happy holidays and a healthy, prosperous new year!

We had the joy and privilege of collaborating with many of you this year and appreciate your support. 

As a reminder, BonBillo is an accelerator for startups contributing to the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. We provide structured training programs with mentorship, tools and networks to help founders grow their social impact startups.

We are delighted to welcome the Geaux Network, Mentorli and PartRunner to the BonBillo community!  ๐ŸŽ‰

The Geaux Network creates and curates multicultural content for and by people of color, including podcasts, radio shows, video streaming service, and soon, e-commerce.

An on-demand delivery service provider, PartRunner, caters to the Trades, Construction, and Service Industries. enabling these businesses to move materials in a more efficient manner. 

Mentorli helps companies recruit diverse candidates through a continuous virtual career fair and aids individuals in landing their dream job.

 

A big thank you to all our guest speakers over the last quarter!  ๐Ÿ™Œ

Our teams have had the opportunity to hear from several awesome founders and investors who shared their journey and key learnings.

A big thank you to Genevieve Oni, Soga Oni, Sid Goyal, Swapnil Shah, Nick Patel, Cullen Schwarz, Rukaiya Rangwala, Nick Nanakos, Neil Kothari, Vinay Ganti, Anum Hussain, Kunal Paymaster, Sunay Shah and Alberto Gomez-Obregon!

Congrats to BonBillo alumni and community members on their wins ๐Ÿ†

Soga Oni, CEO of MDaas Global, a tech-enabled diagnostics chain in Nigeria, was selected as 1st Runner Up and won $250K in the Africa's Business Heroes competition.

  GreenChoice, simplifying healthy & sustainable grocery shopping, was selected by Google Play Apps & Games as one of the Best Apps for Good of 2020

LULA, a corporate commuter ride-sharing service in South Africa, won Digital Startup of the Year at the Africa Digital Awards 2020!

 

3DIMO, enabling early detection of diseases in livestock, was Runner Up at the UCAN Startup Awards Agri-Foodtech track & won a $25K grant.



































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