STARTUP WATCH- Two Egyptian entrepreneurs are among the 10 finalists of the Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative’s 2019 grand finale,which will be held in Ghana next month,Alizila reports. Waleed Abd El Rahman, the CEO of Mumm, and Omar Sakr, the founder and CEO of Nawah-Scientific, will join contestants from Nigeria, Liberia, Rwanda, and Cote d’Ivoire to make their final pitches at the event. The contestants are competing for a share of the USD 1 mn prize pool, which will be determined by four judges, one of whom is Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma. The initiative is his flagship entrepreneurship program in Africa, led by the Jack Ma Foundation.

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