The Presidential Innovation Challenge Pitchfest was held at the Kenya Innovation Week 2023 which was held at the Edge Convention Centre, Nairobi, to figure out the recipients of the Presidential Innovation Award (PIA)which is a module of the Talanta Hela program under the umbrella of the Ministry of Youth Affairs, Creative Economy and Sports that planned to establish the entrepreneurial capability of innovators throughout the nation.
It acknowledges and grants the ingenious work of leading innovators in the nation within the nationwide concern locations of Food Security and Agriculture, Digital Transformation, Healthcare, Climate Action and Green Energy and Entertainment and Gaming.
Winners Per County
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1. Bioafriq Energy Limited (By James Nyamai) MAKUENI COUNTY: This ingenious innovation addresses food security obstacles by effectively dehydrating farm items year-round, getting rid of the restrictions of standard solar clothes dryers that have a hard time throughout Kenya’s rainy and winters. By substantially lowering post-harvest losses for farmers.
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2. Signvrse (By Elly Savatia)KAJIADO COUNTY: Signvrse is an assistive innovation start-up using AI (Computer Vision) and automated 3D innovation to translate text and speech, developing natural indication language avatars with real-time accuracy.
3. Agritech Analytics (By Marryann Gichanga)KIAMBU COUNTY: AgriTech Analytics Ltd has actually produced a crop & & soil management tool that leverages AI-powered satellite images information & & information from our IoT sensing unit to stop soil destruction, crop insects and illness to increase yields for little holder farmers.
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4. Piquant Spices (By Stephen Machua)MURANG’A COUNTY: Piquant spices is a Manufacturing business that is doing worth addition of herbs and spices for regional and export markets. These spices are grown by smallholder farmers in dry and semi-arid locations of Kenya hence supplying an alternative high worth crop for ASALs.
5. Farmer Lifeline Technologies (By Alice Kayo)NAIROBI COUNTY: Farmer Lifeline is an early-stage Kenyan based business that empower smallholder farmers through AI to allow them spot crop insects and illness in time and understand the options to applys.
6. Ruphids Autotech Solutions (By Philip Nganda)KITUI COUNTY: Ruphids autotech supplies a biometric presence gizmo that minimizes truancy cases and other associated issues such as the increasing pregnancy cases among school going kids by sending out sms to the moms and dads on arrival and leaving time at the school facilities.
7. Bevis Africa (By Victor Mburu)LAMU COUNTY: Bevis Africa Integrates nature-based options with tech-based options to make sure fair and sustainable incomes. We are leveraging the power of web3 and Blockchain to make it possible for farmers and pastoral neighborhoods to take advantage of environment funding specifically the voluntary carbon market.
8.M-Taka (By Primafacie Mutua)KISUMU COUNTY: M-taka is a pioneering social effect recycling endeavor situated in Kisumu, Kenya, on the coasts of Lake Victoria. It was established to resolve the alarming waste management concern in the area, by leveraging innovation, information analytics, and neighborhood engagement to construct a sustainable zero-waste circular economy.
9. Suwa Bleaching Chemicals Limited (By Benjamin Baya)KILIFI COUNTY: Suwa Bleaching Chemicals Limited and produces uses an alternative high-standard whitening representative from sugarcane wastes for refining crude palm oil.
10. Banana Fibre Extraction (Bafiex) Products (By Kenton Mutethia Muthaura)MERU COUNTY: Bafiex from Meru County is drawing out natural fibers from the banana pseudo stem and pass it through boiling water, dried and color into various colours according to customer’s choices. This natural fiber is utilized in style and fabric markets in making wigs, braids, weaves, mats, eco-papers and Eco bags and home designs.
11. Wymbee (BY Jack Oloo) SIAYA COUNTY: Wymbee is an innovation service for MSMEs indicated to assist them tackle their deadstock issue. We link sectoral micro-retailers through service neighborhoods & & utilize these neighborhoods to funnel their quality dead-inventory in order to re-allocate them to locations where need exists.
12. Greenium Energy (By Kevin Otieno)KAKAMEGA COUNTY: Greenium Energy is a social business supplying cost effective and tidy energy. We produce briquettes out of water hyacinth from Lake Victoria. One tone of briquettes produced conserves more than 80 fully grown trees for this reason we dissuade reducing of trees and more increasing the forest cover.
13. Fibertext Green Paper Limited (By Rose Sikulu)BUNGOMA COUNTY: Fibertext Green Paper Limited makes eco-friendly documents from banana waste which we turn them into product packaging bags. And in so doing we are lowering logging and greenhouse gas emissions.
14. Rhon (By Douglas Rono)KERICHO COUNTY: Rhon is a fintech business that combines company and casual traders onto one platform enabling sustainable intake of services.
15. Jayit productions (By Peter Achieng)BUSIA COUNTY: Sawdust developing block development uses a cutting-edge service for sustainable building, resolving the pushing requirement for environmentally friendly and economical structure products. By making use of sawdust, a waste item from wood.
16. Stockplug (By Rhyl Cruz Kiio)MACHAKOS COUNTY: Stockplug is the ingenious service by Agrilla Enterprises, it’s a multivendor online animals market. Customized for farmers, it supplies economical listings and ads for animals, beginning at an attracting rate of Ksh10. This platform flawlessly links farmers to the extensive online market throughout Kenya, changing the landscape of animals trading.
17. Finda (By Amos Onyonka)KISII COUNTY: Finda is an ingenious, easy to use online platform that supplies smooth digital marketing options for organizations of all classifications thus promoting effectiveness and digitization in business environment.
18. Greener Waste Converters (By Abraham Karani)THARAKA NITHI COUNTY: Greener waste converters have actually created an Artificial-Intelligence-based wastepaper recycler efficient in recycling about 1,200 A4 documents per hour. For extremely infected waste documents, we produce environmentally friendly and economical secondary items such as paint and shoe polish.
19. Leafylife Innovation Hub (By Johnson Mboya)WAJIR COUNTY: LeafyLife, established a distinct energy effective diaper recycling procedure. We created chemical innovation that utilizes benign natural chemicals to tidy breakdown diapers into specific constituents and makes helpful items from them.
20. Eco-Glass Innovations (By Peter Kinyua)NAKURU COUNTY: Eco-Glass Innovations leads a green transformation by repurposing disposed of glass into premium items, lined up with our objective to minimize waste and conserve the environment. Beyond recycling, our dedication to ecological sustainability actively promotes regional financial development.
21. Jakey (By Gillian Nyangaga)HOMABAY COUNTY: JAKEY streamlines licensing for developers, strengthens copyright security through blockchain, makes cross-border deals smooth and worldwide availability for artists and innovators.
22. Tft Grit (By Loroo Emmanuel)TURKANA COUNTY: Smart Climate Stool resolves Deforestation Menace.
23. Teen and Young People Mental Health Champions (By Kirui Emmanwel)BOMET COUNTY: Mental health champs for youths and sexual reproductive health. We focus on supplying psychological health options in a budget-friendly and available way to youths in and outside Bomet county.
24. Digital Farmer (By Victor Ndaba)NYERI COUNTY: Digitalfarmer is a B2B and B2C platform simplifying the farming supply chain. Utilizing our digital platform, we aggregate supply from our farmers and need from our consumers then bridge the 2. We are on an objective to digitize African farming, every action of the method.
25: Carss Technologies (BY Maina Mburu)NYANDARUA COUNTY: The car security system is the only existing system of its kind offering security in cars and homes. Included functions for automation functions by utilize of an application set up in the phone and an encrypted password.
26. Akili Sawa (By John Njiru)EMBU COUNTY: Akili Sawa looks for to democratise psychological health care to all neighborhoods in Kenya through its data-driven options that will make wellness available, destigmatised, and prioritised.
27. Go Green by Blazing Barrys Youth Coffee (By Victor Murei)BUSIA COUNTY: Sawdust constructing block development uses a revolutionary option for sustainable building, attending to the pushing requirement for environment-friendly and affordable structure products. By using sawdust, a waste item from wood.
28. Marinecatch Africa Limited (By Kenndy Kitavi)KWALE COUNTY: MarineCatch Africa is an African seafood Marketplace which effortlessly incorporates IoT and blockchain innovations, guaranteeing an end-to-end transparent and traceable supply chain. Empowering seaside neighborhoods, especially females in the processing sector.
29. Wafugaji Digital (By Kenneth Kimathi)ISIOLO COUNTY: In northern Kenya & & other animals neighborhoods, the animals market is an important part of the economy. Our platform simplifies the procedure of purchasing and offering animals, offering a combined market available to everybody.
30. Speaker Sam (By Samwel Bob Mogire)UASIN GISHU COUNTY: Panda logo design is an effort that we began 2023 that utilizes art to eliminate result of environment modification, where youth purchase a tree and get a logo design, image or tattoo of his/her option totally free.
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