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Africa Leading Edge Limited
United States of America
Africa Leading Edge Limited is into real estate development of affordable homes with technology to cool the houses using Insulated concrete forms (ICF) thereby saving the home owners 60 70% the electricity bills. Our goal is to seek funding for $280000 to purchase land and build various gated communities using our technology ICF. It is the plan to build across West Africa starting from Ghana. We will add solar energy later on to light up the houses by using the abundance of the sunshine in Africa. We will employ young brilliant Africans from polytechnic who will research the products and improve on them.rnOur company is a start up and well prefer equity investment. If we have to borrow we will pay good interest rate and retire our debt in 36 months. We are ready with our crew in Kasoa Ghana.
| Acommodation & food service |
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Afrigrid
Lesotho
AfriGrid brings location based services to consumers by tying their homes or properties unique identifiers (such as water metre number electricity metre number plot number etc) to their latitude and longitude coordinates (GPS coordinates). In that way we are able to bring emergency services (ambulance fire & rescue) delivery services and cabs as well as other location based services to areas with no (clearly defined) street addresses.rnrnWe have created a system that enables us to locate a house property establishment or physical structure by simply typing in the electricity meter number of that particular property. From our database we extract the GPS coordinates matching the provided identifier of the house or property. We then use these GPS coordinates to create an interactive Google Map showing the location of the house or property.
| Information, communication & technology |
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Basic Water Needs
Netherlands
Basic Water Needs is recognized for its impact in the field of clean and safe drinking water for the Base of the Pyramid (BoP). BWN has provided over 1 million people with clean and safe drinking water in over 30 countries holds a network of more than 100 agents and its customers include Jica Red Cross USAID Water Aid and Unicef.
| Water & Sewerage |
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Dechets a L’Or
Guinea
Growing cities of Sub-Saharan Africa are faced with multiple challenges, including lack of energy, lack of employment opportunity, threats to public health and safety that arises from stagnate water blocked by tons of trash in waterways. Creating a centralised system of waste collection and treatment system, allows us to clean the environment which improves public health, create jobs which increases economic opportunity, create bio-fertiliser/compost which increases agricultural yields, and obtain biogas which can provide sustainable energy to communities.
| Waste Management & Recycling |
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GCP Solar
Ghana
Ghana Capital Partners ( GCP ) is a boutique private equity firm and project developer investing into companies and projects in Africa. They distribute solar light bulbs to end consumers in Africa with no electricity. Their model is a B2B model working with partners with existing networks such as NGOs mobile phone operators etc.
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Go Metro
South Africa
The MOST accurate transit app for emerging markets GoMetro provides contextual public transport information combining trains buses rapid transit and taxis into one app using multiple data sources. We supplement official datasets (which are often lacking) with user generated updates by enabling commuters to connect with each other InApp to share updates experiences and tips making the app hyper local and globally scalable. In parallel modes are able to direct message their commuters in an efficient and targeted manner closing the communication gap in major city systems.
| Transportation & storage |
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Green Energy & Biofuels
Green Energy & Biofuels has successfully launched one of the first commercial cellulosic ethanol operations in Africa. GEB will invest in waste to ethanol plants and will feed some of the largest and fastest growing renewable programmes on the continent while serving wide range of industries to meet the growing need for fuel grade ethanol.
| Energy |
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Mellowcabs
South Africa
Mellowcabs manufactures and operates attractive high tech electric pedicabs. Mellowcabs are public transport devices providing first and last mile transport services. Our main source of income is not carrying passengers but selling advertising space on and in the vehicles. Our Mellowcabs have been designed to be very safe and extremely visible and to offer optimum advertising space on an aesthetically pleasing design. Mellowcabs will typically operate in a limited urban radius of 3 4 km and will not compete with other transport systems such as trains buses or taxi s but rather feed into and complement existing networks. A single Mellowcab can provide over 120km of transport per day. All our vehicles are also equipped with on board tablet computers which offer an interactive experience to the passenger. The tablets feature our own propriety software which includes an augmented reality facility geo activation advertising and full social media integration. Our vehicles are manufactured from recycled materials and feature state of the art electric motors and batteries.
| Transportation & storage |
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Mobile Solar Kiosk
Rwanda
We developed a Mobile Solar Kiosk that allow franchisees to sell different type of products and services at the base of the pyramid. Our primary service is a built in charging system for small electronics using renewable energy technology but will be able to sell cell phones solar lights airtime and do mobile money transfer therefore becoming a one stop shop for telecom customers. Free Standing Mobile Phone have been around for a few years now However what we notice is that the customer has to be in proximity of a device to be able to utilize their service. Why not change that and create a mobile device that can actually go where the customers are therefore creating convenience increasing customer traffic which in turn will increase revenue.
| Energy |
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Shamba Technologies
United Kingdom of Great Britai
Shamba Technologies is a renewable energy technology company based in Tanzania and the UK. We design our products from the ground up coming up with innovative solutions for the 115 million families in Africa without power. Our work has spanned bioenergy solar dehydration fuel briquettes and for the last 18 months we have been exclusively focused on solar photovoltaics.rnrnWe are a small agile team who believe that energy poverty in the developing world should be tackled head on by the provision of high quality low cost products sold at a profit. Our team is dedicated to combining the best of high technology with the depth of practical understanding gained by living in rural East Africa.
| Energy |
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SolarCap
Solar Water Heating is fast being recognised and accepted as viable alternative energy that provides substantial cost savings to consumers and benefits the entire planet by reducing harmful carbon emissions released into the atmosphere.rnrnCurrent Solar Water Heating systems generally consist of a storage tank with either evacuated tube or flat plate solar collectors that are mounted on top of residential roofs. The resultant effect is that the aesthetic value of the houses is reduced with these totally obtrusive systems.
| Energy |
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WoddyB Power
South Africa
Our business model is predicated on energy generation using Gasifiers with woody biomass as feedstock.rnrnThe CHP properties of gasifier type generation will enable this type of client to benefit from both thermal and electrical output significantly reducing their overall energy costs.rnrnThe distributed generation pattern of gasifier operations will enable us to site the units across the timber and sugarcane belt thereby providing sustainable jobs in rural areas while securing the country s energy needs going forward.rnrnIn electricity generation configuration NO WATER IS REQUIRED.
| Energy |
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Zed Bionic
Zed Bionic Enterprises Limited is an organization that is involved in the production of branded organic fertilizer through the usage of biodegradable waste as a raw material and advanced technology that breaks down this waste into core chemical elements that will aid the agriculture industry. There are a number of benefits of using organic fertilizer and some of these includes improving soil tilth and aeration increasing water retention appropriate for landscaping less danger involved with over fertilization reduces the usage of chemical fertilizer improves quality of crop in relation to nutrient content increases growth of crops and improves taste and flavor of the farm products.
| Waste Management & Recycling |