According to Sputnik. Africa, a research platform, this accomplishment not only earned the startup the title but also an award of $8,000 in acknowledgment of its innovative solutions and approach to e-commerce.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfrica is rapidly emerging as the largest market for merchants to succeed in. To fully capitalise on these opportunities there is a need to harness innovative and advanced technologies, thus revolutionising the e-commerce industry on the continent,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
Victor D. Akpan, CEO of GIFTY AI said, \u201cI only talked about technology, Africa, and the future. And I won! Representing Africa in the Middle East was a tough one for me. I guess I followed my star from Africa to Expand North Star, Dubai.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe company\u2019s achievement for Africa and the global tech community puts Africa on the map as a hub for innovation and entrepreneurship,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
GIFTY is Africa\u2019s first AI sales growth assistant for medium, small and micro enterprises using e-commerce platforms.<\/p>\n
The startup empowers small business owners, who often need more resources to invest in conventional marketing and sales teams, to establish their e-commerce sites in under five minutes and secure orders from customers who are willing to buy from them.<\/p>\n
According to Akpan. the competition was with 1,799 participants from over 100 countries. In the Africa Fast Award category, there were 20 African startups competing in the semi-final stage.<\/p>\n
Akpan stressed that out of all the 14 categories, he \u201cemerged as the only winner from Africa who made it to the finals.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe believe the timing is perfect for us to leverage emerging and cutting-edge technologies to disrupt the e-commerce industry for over 90 million MSMEs within Africa. We are building gifty.com.ng to let the world know that Africa is taking over!\u201d Akpan added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
GIFTY AI, a Nigerian startup that provides an AI-powered sales growth assistant for e-commerce businesses, has won the top prize in the Super Nova Challenge by North Star at GITEX 2023, the world\u2019s largest tech event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12963,"featured_media":34670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,21],"tags":[7,26,22],"class_list":{"0":"post-34673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-technology","9":"tag-apie-project","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-technology"},"yoast_head":"\n