Mydoorhandle wins the Blackbox jackpot
June 14th, 2013
Cape Town based startup, mydoorhandle, has been chosen to attend the Blackbox Accelerate program in San Francisco. An initiative by Google for Entrepreneurs, pays for 8 startups from around the world to check in to the self-proclaimed mansion in the San Francisco suburbs and partake in a 2 week learning experience that aims to help international startups do what Silicon startups do best – think big.
Mydoorhandle is already well on its way, with a mission to fill the gap of shoddy African infrastructure, it gives users a way to generate their own addresses across emerging markets and aims to become the default way of sharing addresses or finding your desired destination.
As e-commerce, mobile penetration and connecting via mobile is on the rise in Africa, individuals and businesses alike are finding the offline infrastructure lacking. By creating a “doorhandle”, like @88mphcapetown, users save their unique latitude and longitude, add some basic information, and can share it via a number of ways, including a simple URL.
Mydoorhandle was funded by our accelerator program in Cape Town earlier this year, and has since received an angel investment allowing it to continue building and growing. Hopefully, the lads out in Silicon Valley will give this startup an even better shot of survival, or if nothing else, a chance to breath the infectious air in the Mecca of the startup world.
Bon Voyage.
