Facebook, TechCrunch host contest for Africa's top start-ups in Nairobi

Pinterest, winners of the Best New Startup Award pose backstage at the 5th Annual Crunchies Awards at Davies Symphony Hall on January 31, 2012 in San Francisco, California. Facebook has partnered with TechCrunch, an American technology news site, to find the most promising African start-up in a competition that climaxes on Wednesday in Nairobi. FILE PHOTO | AFP

Facebook has partnered with TechCrunch, an American technology news site, to find the most promising African start-up in a competition that climaxes on Wednesday in Nairobi.

The TechCrunch Startup Battlefield will see 15 companies from sub-Saharan Africa pitch their ideas with the goal of winning Sh2.6 million ($25,000) in non-equity funding.

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