22 local start-up founders shortlisted for Guyana Innovation Prize
Twenty-two Guyanese start-up founders with outstanding ideas in science, technology and agriculture have been shortlisted as the new cohort of Venture Fellows for the 2022-23 Guyana Innovation Prize programme.
Launched in 2018, the Guyana Innovation Prize is an annual, nine-month-long programme, offered by !nnovate Guyana and funded exclusively by Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT).
The 22 Guyanese start-up founders who have been shortlisted for Venture Fellows for the 2022-23 Guyana Innovation Prize programme
The Innovation Prize programme provides expert international business coaching, technical support, and capital that help build upon and improve the Fellows’ efforts to bring their commercially viable ideas to fruition.
Since its launch, the programme has trained and coached over 50 Guyanese scientists, technologists and agriculturists, and has awarded eight of these innovators with US$10,000 each to scale their ideas.
CEO of the Guyana Economic Development Trust (GEDT), Oslene Carrington, the company under which !nnovate Guyana operates, said that the Guyana Innovation Prize was created to fill the gap between ordinary Guyanese who have breakthrough ideas and the opportunities to bring real and new products to market.
“From our perspective, there are no barriers to innovating new, commercially viable ideas. This programme has been designed to support “innovation for all,” which is in keeping with one of GTT’s brand pillars,” Carrington noted.
This year’s cohort began the Innovation Prize programme in July 2022 with 31 shortlisted Venture Fellows, and is now further shortlisted to 22, who are currently going through the second phase of the programme.
The stand-out Venture Fellows, who joined the programme in July 2022 are Master Grillers Charcoal Briquettes by Euclid Samuels, Geometry Tiferet Ugdala LLC by Gavin Palmer, Interlocking Construction Bricks by Abdul Subhan, Created Hands-Created Things by Verlyn Collins, Bringgy by Jay Carter, Vaxxil by Andrew Garnett, Dragonfly Geospatial by Brian Smith, Bug Feeds by Sarwan Scarce, Andy Investment Company by Quinn Smith, Click-n-Learn by Anthony Wills, Ctxog Design by Sean Griffith, Innovation for All by Feiasie Baksh, FemCare by Jaya Edwards, the Moringa Shop by Issac Safi, Infinity Power FDAP by Jamal Farley, Anahata Inc by Kelly Brassington, CME Prep by Raule Williams, Fizuro Inc by Dorwin Kingston, GuyMart by Shaquille Moseley, Tamarindus Indica by Dwayne Harris, To Go Services by Albert Jessemy, Urban Agriculture by Neisha Vantrompe, and Biomaterials by Isidro Ubaldo Espinosa.
