Agri-food entrepreneurs, you have 50 000 reasons of real money to give this competition a serious consideration.
What?
Yeah, there is 50k USD to be won by the best Agrifood entrepreneur in Africa. The competition is via GoGettaz a competition platform for innovative, young entrepreneurs pursuing the trillion-dollar opportunity of Africa’s agri-food sector.
Who?
Any agripreneur with a pioneering business venture is eligible to win one of two US$50,000 cash prizes that will help you change your world and transform the agri-food business. It’s open to every African who resides on this rich continent. The limiting factor is the age as the participants have to be younger or 35 by the time they send their first pitch. Any African who is in an African country that is in the African Union is free to enter the GoGettaz Competition
One male and one female winner will be chosen from the participants. The participants to be chosen’s ideas must be:
- innovative
- original
- scalable
- environmentally sustainable
How?
You have to pitch your idea by submitting it to GoGettaz.
Application Process
- Go to the GoGettaz website
- Set up your profile either using social media or by entering an email or username.
- On the top right corner select Enter GoGettaz competition
- Download the competition questions and go through them in preparation of the final
- Before you apply, go through the questions and possibly prepare appropriate, well-thought answers.
- When satisfied that you are ready with your answers, then apply and answer all questions satisfactorily to convince the judges
- Prepare a 3-minute video answering questions on the video section and upload it via Whatsapp, Vimeo, Google or YouTube and sent the link to GoGettaz.
According to GoGettaz, carefully go through the process before applying without rushing to ensure you convince the judges.
Please review the questions early in the process so you have enough time to prepare thoughtful responses
I would encourage that you create a physical checklist so that you tick off every small stage you have completed. Have notes to the notes you will use for the final pitching. When you are satisfied that you have done justice then send in your application.
Material To Help You Pitch Your Idea
These few sites will help you in prepping and pitching your idea in order to convince the judges. Remember, there are many great ideas that are not properly pitched and these sites will help eliminate such eventualities.
• Entreprenuer
• Adjust production House
• Indiegogo
• American Express
• Venture Burn
When?
This is the timeline of the events for the competition.
Applications
Preliminary Rounds
Finale
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