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C3 EmpowerHer Climate 2026 is a six-month programme supporting women-led and women-benefitting climate resilience ventures across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

Funded by the Resilient Futures Fund (RFF) and delivered by C3 – Companies Creating Change, the programme combines business support, technical expertise, mentorship, market access and catalytic funding to help early-stage climate resilience ventures strengthen their solutions and become investment-ready.

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Tourism Uncovered is a South African tourism technology company that uses gamification and storytelling to help tourism authorities promote destinations and convert digital engagement into real travel. The company offers 26-week, story-driven treasure hunt campaigns featuring destination landmarks, culture and heritage, with interactive challenges, trip-planning and booking features.

1. How the solution works
Tourism Uncovered is a gamified engagement concept built around story licensing. A tourism authority licenses a 26 week treasure hunt built around their destination's landmarks, culture

The ZacMulti-Kiosk™ Mobile Express is an all-in-one, self-service digital services hub brought to market by Zac-Mokoena Trading and Investment. It consolidates multiple premium capabilities—including document services (printing, copying, and high-speed A4/legal scanning), digital identity...

About Kasana Computer School and Repair Centre

Kasana Computer School and Repair Centre CC is an established information and communications technology (ICT) service provider and accredited training institution based in Cala, Eastern Cape. Founded in 2001 by entrepreneur Loyiso Kasana, the organisation provides digital skills training, technical ICT support and business services to communities, individuals and organisations across the Eastern Cape.

The institution holds accreditation with MICT SETA (Accreditation No. ACC/2011/02/561), Services SETA and W&R SETA, enabling it to provide recognised

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Applications are now open for the Common Good Cyber Fund (CGCF) Grant Program, a global funding initiative established by the Internet Society Foundation to strengthen the public-interest cybersecurity ecosystem.

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Applications are now open for UPSTREAM Open Call 2: Prevention & Zero-Waste, a cascade funding opportunity under the UPSTREAM Horizon Europe project that supports regional and local public authorities in designing, piloting and scaling innovative solutions to prevent plastic pollution in rivers and connected waterways.

With €140,000 available under this call, UPSTREAM aims to help regions implement circular economy and zero-waste measures that reduce plastic leakage at source while contributing to the objectives of the EU Mission Restore Our Ocean and Waters.

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Business Overview

mirsv.io is a South African AI-native cybersecurity company founded in 2026 with a mission to transform how organisations defend against evolving cyber threats. We develop intelligent, autonomous cybersecurity solutions that proactively detect, analyse, and prevent cyberattacks before they disrupt business operations.

As cybercrime continues to increase across South Africa and the African continent, many organisations particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) lack access to affordable, enterprise-grade cybersecurity. mirsv.io addresses this challenge by making

IBP Growth trading as IsoGuard.ai is a South African technology company delivering AI-driven safety and machine intelligence solutions to the mining and heavy industrial sectors. The company's core offering comprises two complementary product lines: IsoGuard, a computer vision platform that analyses a site's existing CCTV infrastructure in real time to detect PPE non-compliance, restricted-zone breaches, and unsafe behaviour; and Pulse, an OEM-agnostic underground mining machine intelligence platform using CANbus/J1939 data acquisition with a store-and-forward architecture suited to

Locallio (Pty) Ltd is a South African technology company developing a digital marketplace that connects customers with local service providers and small businesses.

The company was established to address the difficulty many consumers face when searching for reliable local services, while also helping informal, semi-formal and emerging businesses improve their visibility, credibility and access to customers.

Through its mobile-friendly platform, Locallio enables service providers to create digital business profiles displaying their services, skills, operating areas, images and contact information

Finding a reliable local service provider in South Africa is still largely a matter of word-of-mouth or guesswork. Households struggle to find vetted, trustworthy professionals, while skilled service providers and small tradespeople often lack visibility and consistent access to customers. The result is a fragmented local services market where trust, discovery, and booking are all inefficient.

ServeSA solves this with a two-sided marketplace connecting Johannesburg residents with verified local service providers, from home repairs to personal services, through a mobile-first platform. Providers