The Ghana Startup Summit Pre-selection event was a by-product under the Pathways to Sustainable Employment (PaSE) Project for this year where Dansyn Innovation Social Organisation (Dansyn ISO) in partnership Ghana Tech Lab (GTL) with a support from the MasterCard Foundation Young Africa Works, The World Bank, and the Ministry of Communications Ghana was to grow grassroots innovations and create sustainable employability skills among young people.
This program focused on equipping young people with digital skills that would support them develop their ideas. The PaSE program ran for a period of sixteen weeks (Six-weeks training and Ten weeks incubation).
Having participated and a successful completion of a free six-weeks training program in wed development organized by Dansyn ISO in partnership with Ghana Tech Lab (GTL), the trainees were to identify a problem and develop a feasible, viable, desirable and innovative solution to solve the problem identified. With thirty trainees who participated in the program pitch their ideas through Bolgatanga Local Startup Pitch Summit on 8th September,2020 where it saw Asa Yentelbah and Dorcas Mbona (Yensoft co-founders) emerged as winners and Sabina Akaluti and Judith Nmabila (Eazy Hatch co-founders) being first runners. These two startups journeyed into Ten weeks of incubation where they were given both technical and business support to help them further sharping their ideas and give it a voice.
As a forward looking organisation with efforts to promote or build startups that are future ready, Dansyn Innovation Social Organisation (Dansyn ISO) on 10th December, 2020 organized its Ghana Startup Summit Pre-selection event where one of the startups (Yensoft) emerged as the winner. In the event saw a keen competition between two startups; that’s Yensoft and Eazy Hatch, a panel of judges scored the startups based on their performance where Yensoft came victorious after having defeated their contender Eazy Hatch.
Making it into Ghana Startup Summit in Accra meant that, Yensoft is further going to compete in a pitching event with about Fourteen (14) Hubs across the country where the best startup will be selected from the Fourteen (14) Hubs. The Ghana Startup Summit will expose Yensoft to wider community of potential investors and other interested stakeholders in EduTech.
Yensoft as an Education Technology (EduTech) startup seeks to help schools in Ghana and beyond. Their baseline is that, Ghanaian schools have falling behind those from other countries in term of data management systems, hence improving our school’s data management system has become increasingly urgent need for the nation. With four (4) years’ experience as school administrator, Asa Yentelbah together with his co-founder realized that schools in the country data management systems are disorganized, and trends in individual student performance as well as overall student body were very difficult to assess and analyse. To them, this is attributed to the fact most of the schools operates manual system which makes it technically difficult to assess and analyze student performance with ease and high accuracy.
To solve the manual system practiced in our current schools, the team researched and spoke to a number of schools such as Blessing Educational Complex, Eastbrown Community School, Christ the King School, Northspring Academy, Great Famous Academy, Great Victory Academy, Sanabas Miracle Academy, Ola Academy, Central Lyceum and Mount Sinai etc. to be able to develop a product market-fit for the schools. Yensoft School Management System will become a forefront push for technology-driven Management System in schools.
With the current school’s management systems, teachers and parents are not able to monitor their students’ success at a go. Yensoft School Management System connects both parents and school together, allows flexible payments of fees, generates report on pupils’ academics. Yensoft management system are highly secured, flexible and easy to use. Yensoft management system have user-friendly interface, flexible fee payment through MoMo at parents’ comfort and user support. The system calculates with accuracy the student grades and sends alerts to parents and school administrator regarding payment of fees and summaries terminal report. Not only that, when students begin to deviate from their normal academic patterns, like getting a rash of poor grades, the system sends alert to parents and school administrator for quicker response enough to help the student reverse course before failing.
With access to appropriate funding, Yensoft is looking to capture the market and provide jobs as they grow into a huge organization. And also seek to evolve into a great learning platform in the future.
