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Aruwa Capital Management

Aruwa Capital Management is a Lagos-based, female-founded and led, growth equity, impact investment company.

Aruwa Capital Management invests in companies that have strong management teams and meet the following criteria:

Provides essential goods and services that cater to women.
Founded or co-founded by a woman, has women within its workforce, senior management team or value chain.
A positive attitude towards and active support of a diverse team.
An annual turnover of at least $300-500k.
Proven management team with a history of delivering the underlying business plan.

Acumen Capital Partners is an impact investor that has spent the last nearly 20 years leveraging philanthropy as patient, high-risk capital to support social enterprises creating solutions to the problems of poverty.

Renewable Energy Accelerator: Call for Applications

Overview of your opportunity

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.

Click here to apply.

Natural Resources and Energy Technologies

Overview of your opportunity

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

Closing date

Friday, October 13, 2023 - 12:00

MPUMALANGA GREEN SOLUTIONS PITCH CHALLENGE 2023

Overview of your opportunity

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.

Closing date

Friday, September 22, 2023 - 12:00

Renewable Energy Accelerator 2023

Overview of your opportunity

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:

Solar Product Installation Businesses
Digital Energy Management Systems Businesses
Smart Meter Installation Businesses

Click here to apply.

Closing date

Wednesday, August 30, 2023 - 12:00

Stone Bread Projects Pty (Ltd)

Biotechnology development company

Electrolysis Cell Comprising Sulpher Dioxide-Depolarising Anode and Method of Using the Same In Hydrogen Generation

This technology involves a method for generating hydrogen in an electrolysis cell. A proton exchange membrane (PEM) is used to separate anode and cathode chambers of the cell. The space between the anode and the PEM is filled with aqueous sulfuric acid. In use, gaseous sulphur dioxide is fed to the...

A Method and Apparatus for Hydrogen Generation

This process is used for generating hydrogen by providing a hydrogen chemical carrier in the presence of an active catalyst in a reactor vessel and elevating the temperature inside the reactor by electromagnetic process to allow a dehydrogenation reaction to generate hydrogen. The active catalyst is...

Activation Compounds for Hydrogen Generation

The North-West University (NWU) has developed and patented a method for producing hydrogen via hydrolysis, using an activated aluminium compound.

Technology Benefits:

Aluminum also can be recycled after the hydrogen production process.
Hydrogen can be produced under high pressure.
By...