Daily Digest Wednesday, 24 June 2020
Funding In Southern Africa
Zimbabwe’s Centragrid to Scale Up Solar Output
Zimbabwean solar power company Centragrid plans to increase generation capacity to 25 megawatts (MW) by October 2021, helping the country chip away at a huge electricity deficit that has hurt mines and kept households in the dark for hours. Read more
Funding In West Africa
Atlanta Solar Firm Connects More Villages to ‘Mini-Grids’ in Nigeria, Kenya
Atlanta-based Renewvia Energy Corp. has taken new steps toward its dream of bringing solar energy to off-grid communities in Africa, building a scalable business in the process. Read more
Funding In North Africa
Egypt’s Sakneen gets Y Combinator’s backing for its online real estate platform
Cairo-based online real estate platform Sakneen announced today that it has been backed by Y Combinator. The startup was part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2020 batch that graduated earlier this year with a virtual demo day. It has raised $150,000 from Y Combinator as part of joining the program. Read more
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Calls For Funding & Other Events
UNICEF Funding Opportunity for Blockchain Startups
The UNICEF Innovation Fund is looking to makeup to $100K equity-free investments (in USD and/or cryptocurrency) to provide early stage (seed) financing and mentoring to for-profit technology startups that have the potential to benefit humanity. Read more
Private LTE communications empowering North Sea wind farm
Join this live discussion and learn about the use cases and benefits a wind farm operator is realising with their private LTE/5G network. Read more
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