South African travel app Go Metro has won the Cape Town leg of the Get In The Ring competition, with founder Justin Coetzee to represent the city in the regional finals in September
Get in the Ring was hosted at on July 22, and saw eight of the most promising Cape Town startups competing.
During the battle each of the startups were paired, with two contestants facing off through five rounds with different pitching topics.
The Get in the Ring South Africa challenge was aimed at startup business owners and budding entrepreneurs and represents a global podium to raise investment capital for their company.
Originally initiated by the Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship (Rotterdam) in 2009, the GITR concept brings together promising entrepreneurs, investors, customers and potential business partners.
In second place was Wumdrop, an on-demand courier application that summons a courier at the click of a button, while third place was taken by NerveData, which installs smart devices into company operations to collect and provide clean operational data.
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