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Dropifi, a Ghana Tech startup wins top spot in International startup open
Dropifi founders.,Kamil Nabong (l), David Osei (c) and Effah Philips Mensah (r). PHOTO/Dropifi
Dropifi, a startup tech company in Ghana has taken the top spot in the 2012 Startup Open, beating 49 other competitors from around the world, including Canada.
“Each year, thousands of new startups come to life through their experiences in Global Entrepreneurship Week which officially starts today in 130 countries,” said Jonathan Ortmans, president of Global Entrepreneurship Week. “By winning the Startup Open, Dropifi is at the top of that list and has a very promising future.”
Dropifi is the result of an encounter that Dropifi’s team leader David Osei had while meeting a business executive.
“I requested his business card after a meeting and the piles of cards he had to wade through was enormous. He was looking for his card amongst others” he recounted. “In 2006 I conceptualized a mobile app that will help people to share, store and organize business cards better.”
Dropifi replaces “contact us” buttons with a smart widget that allows companies to analyze and organize incoming messages more efficiently. The widget allows companies to gather analytical data about the people sending the messages and whether the messages content is positive or negative.
David Osei is a graduate from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology with a degree in Mathematics. Effah Philips Mensah is Dropifi’s Tech lead. He graduated from the University of Cape Coast with a Bachelor of Education in Computer Science. Kamil Nabong is the team’s financial man and also a graduate from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
As the grand prize winners, Dropifi’s co-founder, David Osei, receives an all-expenses-paid trip to Rio de Janeiro to serve as an official delegate to one of the world’s largest startup community gatherings, the Global Entrepreneurship Congress in March 2013.