On Friday, August 29, 2025 the National Pitching Ceremony of the Orange Social Venture Prize (OSVP) 2025 was held at Orange Liberia’s headquarters, 16th Street, with visionary entrepreneurs stepping up to showcase bold ideas and groundbreaking solutions designed to drive real impact in Liberia.
From passion-driven pitches to inspiring success stories, each presentation reflected resilience, creativity, and the promise of a brighter, more sustainable future for communities.
The Orange Social Venture Prize is a means of encouraging innovation, where Orange rewards the positive entrepreneurial spirit of dynamic start-ups within the framework of its Social Venture Prize. Since 2011 this International Grand Prix competition has welcomed start-ups from 17 countries in Africa and the Middle East. It identifies, rewards, and supports business propositions that make a positive social and environmental impact.
To encourage sustainable, responsible, and inclusive development, the International Women’s Prize was introduced in 2020, promoting business ventures led by women entrepreneurs.
At the 2025 ceremony held over the weekend, GoLocal won the Third Place Prize, walking away with US$1,500.
GoLocal was established to address food insecurity and malnutrition by providing value-added processing, packaging, and distribution of high-quality food products, starting with nutritious processed Farina, with groundnut, milk and coconut; while also empowering local farmers and entrepreneurs with training, credit, and market information.
Making its case, GoLocal observed that despite Liberia’s rich agricultural potential, food insecurity and malnutrition remain pressing challenges. Smallholder farmers, women, and youth face persistent barriers such as limited access to agro-processing facilities, weak market linkages, lack of business education, and minimal financing opportunities. As a result, significant post-harvest losses occur, local food products remain underdeveloped, and communities continue to depend heavily on imported goods for basic nutrition.
The Second Place Prize was won by HealthMate, winning US$2,000. HealthMate is a mobile health application that tackles health-related barriers using mobile technology and AI. It provides patients and providers with a secure digital health record on a smartphone, ensuring medical histories travel with the patient.
Liberia’s healthcare system struggles with fragmented paper records, making it hard to maintain continuity of care across facilities. Patients often carry only partial histories, and hospital record rooms overflow with paper. In emergencies, this gap can be fatal: clinicians lack instant access to allergies, past treatments, or lab results. These challenges are worsened by infrastructure gaps—unreliable power and internet—which hinder digital solutions.
For bridging these barriers, Orange Liberia awarded HealthMate the second place.
The prestigious First Place Prize was won by Finndex Africa, walking away with US$3,000.
Finndex Africa is a digital real estate and housing services platform committed to making it easier, faster, and more reliable for people to find rental homes and trusted service providers across Africa. The target market is the urban rental search market in Liberia, which is growing due to urbanization, internet adoption, and mobile penetration. The company’s target audience includes home seekers (students, professionals, and families) and agents/landlords.
The Special Category, National Women’s Prize, was won by Voices of Tomorrow, walking away with US$500.
