Four African enterprises win big at the 11th SankalpAfrica Awards 2024

The journey of Sankalp Africa has been one of milestones and impact. The premier convening started 11 years ago as we took our pioneering entrepreneurship-led development model and blended it with our popular flagship convening with a focus to build the entrepreneurial ecosystem, to help the development ecosystem gather and to work towards achieving the SDGs.

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

Every year, Sankalp Africa showcase outstanding enterprises and this year we showcased 11 promising finalist startups at the Sankalp Africa Awards 2024. This year each of the 4 winners highlighted promise and business premise.

The Ecosystem Award Winner, which is uniquely chosen by a democratic voting system, went to Agrosahas International Private Ltd., an Agri enterprise from Uganda that aids 10,000 Ugandan farmers through their proprietary tech-driven platform, proving beyond doubt that tech driven ideas makes for 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, 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 for a great impact story.

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. What makes their idea compelling is the 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 who are focused on reducing chemical pesticide use and improving safety, affordability and effectiveness. 

The story of Toothpick Company is inspiring to say the least. Led by Claire Baker, the genesis of the idea was around an innovation her father had dabbled in for over 40 years. Today they are not only improving food security for farmers but also becoming a player of repute in a 34 Billion USD billion global synthetic chemical weed management industry.

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

This year the Summit has positively engaged over1,500 different stakeholders from across 60+ countries in over 35+ Sessions featuring 200+ Speakers with 20+ Hours of Learning, covering the development ecosystem,  to discuss, define, and drive forward the critical levers of catalysing impact and igniting Africa’s potential for a just potential.