Four outstanding African enterprises won accolades at the Sankalp Africa Awards 2024 during the 11th Sankalp Africa Summit 2024, at the Kenya School of Monetary Studies (KSMS) in Nairobi.

The Sankalp Africa Summit that took place from February 28th to 29th, focussed around Entrepreneurship and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The four were recognized for their efforts in innovation and ideas that will surge the African continent forward and pave the way for shaping the economy.

The premier convening started 11 years ago, pioneering entrepreneurship led development model.

Sankalp Africa is blended with popular flagship convening that focuses on building the entrepreneurial ecosystem, to help the development ecosystem gather and work towards achieving the SDGs. 

Now with chapters in East Africa and West Africa, Sankalp highlights how complex social challenges can be addressed with decisive action by a gathering of changemakers through conversations, and collaboration with a view to drive innovation, ideas, investments and impact. 

Every year, Sankalp Africa showcases outstanding enterprises and this year the organization showcased 11 promising finalist startups at the Sankalp Africa Awards 2024. 

The Ecosystem Award Winner, which is uniquely chosen by a democratic voting system, went to Agrosahas International Private Ltd, an Agri enterprise from Uganda.

Agrosahas aided 10,000 Ugandan farmers through their proprietary tech-driven platform, proving beyond doubt that tech driven ideas can make a transformative impact.

The 2nd Runner Up went to MedTrack, a healthcare enterprise from Ghana who are centralizing access to patient information by linking it to national biometric IDs.

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MedTrack played a key role in easing the process of transfer of health data across multiple care points by patients and health providers, thereby proving yet again that health and tech when blended makes a great impact.

The 1st Runner Up was Keep IT Cool, an Agri enterprise from Kenya which provides proximate refrigerated cooling boxes and transport to underserved smallholder fishermen and fish farmers in East Africa. 

Keep IT Cool has end-to-end cold chain logistics solution they are leveraging while using technology to scale their business

The winner of the 11th Sankalp Africa Awards went to Toothpick Company, an Agri enterprise from Kenya,  that focuses on reducing chemical pesticide use and improving safety, affordability and effectiveness. 

One of Africa’s largest convening on impact entrepreneurship and sustainable development, the 11th Sankalp Africa Summit 2023, hosted by Aavishkaar Group and Intellecap took place from February 28 to 29, 2024  at the Kenya School of Monetary Studies (KSMS) in Nairobi.

The Summit has positively engaged over 1,500 different stakeholders from across 60+ countries in over 35+ sessions featuring 200+ speakers.

The summit covered the development ecosystem,  with discussions on how to drive forward the critical levers of catalysing impact and igniting Africa’s potential for a just potential.