Educational portal PrepClass emerged winner of the maiden edition of the TechCabal Battlefield startup competition at the just concluded Social Media Week (SMW) Lagos, claiming the US$20,000 prize.

HumanIPO reported last month Nigerian tech blog TechCabal had partnered with Stanbic Bank, Jobberman and Social Media Week (SMW) Lagos to launch Battlefield, with Stanbic’s US$10,000 contribution doubled to US$20,000 after online music service iROKING pledged US$10,000.

PrepClass, which provides users with study materials including practice questions, beat voice communication firm Callbase and electrical and motor e-commerce platform Autobox, who were first and second runner-up respectively, to the top prize.

According to the judges, PrepClass was selected based on the problem it solved, the amount of work on the project completed so far and its market feasibility.

In an interview with HumanIPO after the competition, Aniebet Willie, web designer for PrepClass, said the team was happy with its victory.





“We are happy we won because everybody had a chance of winning and our chance was as equal has every other person’s,” he said.

“We have a product that is scalable and we’ve been doing it over time and this was just our big win.”

According to PrepClass the project started in June last year, although work had started on it earlier, and it has gained traction among users.

“We now have $20,000 and we’ve been looking for money since. There are lots of things – projects, debts. Basically we will pay our debts and just move on,” Willie said.

“We are going to improve on the quality and number of our contents, offline and online works, more apps and other stuffs.”

He advised individuals with ideas to build their team based on their dreams.

“It depends on your dream and what you want to do. For us it was more than building PrepClass, it was solving a need. At some point we wanted it to be free because we just wanted people to use it,” he said.

While pitching, the team said

📌 PrepClass wins TechCabal’s Battlefield (Mon Village)
🏢 HumanIPO
📍 Mon Village