The winners of the hackathon segment at the Second Edition of the Zenith Tech Fair, themed “Future Forward 3.0,” have been announced.

The event, held on November 23-24, 2023, at the Eko Convention Centre, Eko Hotels & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, saw participants competing for a total prize pool of N59 million.

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Out of over 500 contestants, ten finalists emerged, with Sync, a team collaboration and workflow management platform offering project management, task planning, messaging, payments, scheduling, and people operations, securing the top spot. Sync claimed the grand prize of N20 million.

The first runner-up, Skill Up With Kahdsole, a social-tech startup providing an end-to-end platform for learning technical and vocational skills, received N15 million and a mentorship program with Seedstars.

Tribapay, the second runner-up, specializing in a payment processing gateway for cross-border transactions in Nigeria and Ghana, secured N10 million and a mentorship program with Seedstars.

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Dr. Ebenezer Onyeagwu, the Group Managing Director/CEO of Zenith Bank Plc, expressed his enthusiasm for the Hackathon in his welcome address at the Zenith Bank flagship Tech Fair, highlighting it as a high point of the overall event.