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The Startup Battlefield Africa event will take place October 11 in Nairobi, Kenya at a location to be announced. We hope to see you and your promising social good, productivity and utility or gaming and entertaining company there.

More info about eligibility criteria and the event itself is found below .

Here’s how to participate

Startups must fit into one of three categories (social good, productivity and utility or gaming and entertainment) to participate. Five startups in each category will be selected to join us onstage for the Battlefield Africa in Nairobi.

Apart from clear relevance to one of the three themes, should BarCode Sticker:

    Be early-stage companies in “launch” stage
    Be a resident from our eligible countries
    Have a fully working product/beta, reasonably close to or in production
    Have received limited press or publicity to date
    Have no known intellectual property conflicts

What do the winners receive?
Apart from the exposure that comes from pitching to the global TechCrunch audience, as well as the live audience of distinguished technologists, entrepreneurs and investors in Nairobi, the overall winner will receive US$25,000 in no-equity cash plus an all-expense paid trip for two to San Francisco to compete in the Battlefield at TechCrunch’s flagship event, Disrupt SF in 2018.

Are costs to attend the pitch-off covered Next Generation Firewall?
No, but TechCrunch will try to find financial assistance for a startup in need of assistance to reach the Nairobi event.