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AWIEF Growth Accelerator for South Africa, in partnership with Nedbank is calling for application for the 2024 cohort. 

AWIEF Growth Accelerator is a flagship enterprise development programme designed to support early-stage and high-growth-oriented women-owned and women-led small and medium-sized enterprises (WSMEs) with growth strategy training, corporate advisory, mentoring, networks, and access to finance.

Applications are invited from WSMEs operating in; 

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Katorus T Electricity Specialist CC is a technology company with innovative  Energy and Information Communication Technology departments. 

Energy Department includes;

  1. The innovation of electric vehicles self-charging Dynamo devices that are installed in EV wheel to allow the EV to self-charge itself while in motion or driven and IIt makes all electric vehicles and other devices to self charge while in motion or moving and operated.
  2. The innovation of electric generation power stations that use electric motors to produce 3,600 rpm speed that is connected to a generator to spin and drive the
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Startup-Culture in partnership with GrowthWheel and 4th Industrial Revolution Incubator is calling for young entrepreneurs to join a 4 - 6 months high growth renewable energy Accelerator programme. The programme aims to build 30 Gauteng-based businesses to focus on the installation and maintenance of solar energy and energy management products in the City Regions of Gauteng Province. 

Intake pitch to be hosted in January 2024. 

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The Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) is calling for the submission of funding applications for developing innovative natural resource and energy technologies. The technological focus areas include:

Natural Resources

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The Mpumalanga Green Cluster Agency, supported by GreenCape in partnership with the UK PACT (Partnering for Accelerated Climate Transitions), invite innovators and entrepreneurs with economically viable green economy innovation business in Mpumalanga to enter the first Mpumalanga green solutions pitch challenge.

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Start-Up Culture in partnership with 4IRI are looking for looking to recruit our first cohort of 30 entrepreneurs for our 4-6 months Accelerator Program aimed at building:

  1. Solar Product Installation Businesses
  2. Digital Energy Management Systems Businesses
  3. Smart Meter Installation Businesses

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Rheinmetall Denel Munition (Pty) Ltd specialises in the development, design and manufacture of large- and medium-calibre ammunition families and is a world leader in the field of artillery, mortar and infantry systems as well as plant engineering.

From an Open Innovation point of view, we are interested in Venture Clienting with startups to pilot technology and or products and services with a value proposition we are interested in.

The startup company was founded to create battery packs or units for households and businesses to help reduce their reliance on Eskom. As we all know, Eskom is struggling to meet the nation's demand, which is where our batter units come in to pick up the slack during peak hours, reducing loadshedding stages and giving Eskom time to increase its capacity.

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GreenCape, in partnership with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, invites innovators and entrepreneurs with economically viable green economy innovation business ideas to enter the 2023 GreenPitch Challenge.

The innovators and entrepreneurs stand a chance of pitching to a panel of esteemed judges at a “shark tank-style” hybrid networking event, hosted in Cape Town in July 2023. Network with potential investors, business incubators, local government decision-makers and green economy experts.

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3 Years of innovation design and commercial solar modeling delivered a seasonal tracker that enhance solar system efficiency by 25% in our medium to large agricultural business target market. We are the the only scaled manual tracker (2 x seasonal settings) that we know of. Our design integrates with latest bifacial panel technology that require higher installation to absorb reflective light. We have excellent thin steel manufacturing skills to manufacture the tracker. Solar panel producers rejoice at achieving 2.5% better efficiencies, 25 percent is game changing to result in a below 5 year