Technology small businesses to showcase technology projects in Paris to manage healthcare in Africa

Health and medical technology innovators in South Africa will showcase their creations at Afric@Tech’s annual conference to global investors and tech leaders at Viva Technology in Paris.

The entries to the Afric@Tech challenge officially closed on 21 February 2020. Small businesses in the technology sector will not only present their technologies at Viva Tech but also gain access to an investment partnership with Sanofi. This will be done through a system of coaching and mentoring.

Small business owners in the technology sector won’t just present their advancements at Viva Tech but will additionally have an opportunity for an investment partnership with Sanofi, a leading pharmaceutical company.

All African countries will participate in the challenge. This contest is aimed at identifying, rewarding and accompanying the best start-up businesses in their goal of changing practices in the health sector in the whole of Africa.

Sanofi country chair, Thibault Crosnier Leconte said, “This is the third year that we’ll be hosting Afric@Tech at Viva Technology and we’re excited with the sophisticated level of entries we’ve received from South Africa’s tech innovators. We’re proud to say that out of several African countries that enter the challenge, South Africa has emerged with one winner and several qualifying contenders for each year that we’ve hosted Afric@Tech.”

Chosen businesses will have the option to go to the Sanofi in Africa Lab in Afric@Tech. They will display their projects before a jury and will have the option to showcase their solutions before the audience of VivaTech.

This annual technology event will take place from 11 June 2020 until 13 June 2020.

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