Local prop-tech startup Vantage Properties has been accepted into the Google for Startups Cloud Program.
As a participant in the program, Vantage Properties will receive Google Cloud credits, training, business and technical support, and more Google-wide offers.
The incentives, valid for 2-years, will total $100,000 for the first two years and then 20% on total usage costs (up to $100,000) for the second year.
Speaking on being accepted for the program, Sethebe Manake, founder of Vantage Properties, stated that, "This is truly great for us because it enables us to introduce new features using Google APIs, and cloud tools with the comfort that the cost of the explorations is covered."
Vantage Properties' flagship product "Gosmartvalue" is an online property valuation platform that gives users the choice to automatically value their property or instruct a qualified and registered valuer to carry out a detailed valuation. It also provides various market research reports covering various locations around the country that help guide real estate decision-making.
According to Manake, the platform has valuers from panels of the country's top financiers including ABSA, FNB, Standard Bank, Stanbic Bank, and Bank Gaborone.
The startup raised P480,000 last year August from Angel Network Botswana.