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Start Up Energy Transition (SET) is where bold climate-tech ideas meet real-world impact. We’re the global platform connecting the world’s most innovative start-ups with investors, industry leaders, and policymakers who can turn big ideas into even bigger action. Since its launch, the SET Award has evaluated 3,900+ innovators from over 100 countries, showcased 900+ groundbreaking solutions on the SET100 list, and crowned 42 winners. These aren’t just fancy numbers—they represent real people, solving real problems, from cutting emissions to bringing clean energy to communities that need it most. Powered by the German Energy Agency (dena) and backed by the World Energy Council, SET is the hub for climate-tech pioneers. Whether it’s through our SET Award, SET Tech Festival, or the SET100 list, we’re all about fast-tracking the ideas that will reshape industries and revolutionize the way we power our world. Ready to be part of the movement? Jump in, we’re building a greener tomorrow—one disruptive idea at a time. Legal information https://www.dena.de/en/legal-information/

Growth hacking is the strategic "part art/part science" of unlocking rapid, scalable growth using lean resources and creative experimentation. For startups, it’s not just a buzzword—it’s a mindset. At its core, growth hacking blends data, marketing, product, and customer insight to drive measurable results. It’s about identifying the highest-leverage opportunities to grow your user base, increase engagement, and amplify impact—without waiting for massive budgets or long timelines. From A/B testing and viral loops to referral programs and onboarding optimisation, growth hacking is how startups compete, validate, and scale in today’s fast-moving market. We help educate founders and teams to design growth systems that are repeatable, testable, and aligned to traction by providing resources to help them start, grow and scale their business. Early—stage growth isn’t about doing more; it’s about doing what works.

Start Up Mum is a community for mums in business. You might already have a business or perhaps are looking to start one. It’s place where you can come for inspiration, advice and resources to help you run a successful business while maintaining your number one priority: your family. We offer: • A community: We’re a bunch of mums just like you. Come to us to celebrate your wins or ask us to help you with your challenges • Tools and resources: From articles, forums, local groups and events…we are here to offer our consolidated expertise You might say we are mums helping other mums in business.

We help thousands of struggling entrepreneurs in South Africa who want to setup a successful business, create a Start Up Plan for their business success. We do this through proven and tested strategies in a process that is cost effective.

Start VR is a dedicated Virtual Reality content and production studio, devoted to the creation of beautiful and immersive Virtual Reality experiences. We create branded entertainment, educational and training experiences, games and original content for all virtual reality devices, as well as distribution across online platforms. Our team consists of passionate, specialised VR designers, developers and producers with a wealth of experience working with this frontier technology. Creating breath taking, engaging VR and 360° content for your company shouldnt be a headache. Together, we can create compelling virtual experiences that will delight your customers, inspire your staff and realise new value from your existing expertise. We develop 360° video, game environments, animation and productivity enhancement tools for the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, GearVR, Google Cardboard, PSVR, Google Daydream, Oculus Go and other (as yet unreleased) VR HMDs.

Startups.co is the world's largest startup platform. We help over one million startup companies find customers, funding, mentors, and world-class education. Our platform is a family of five products: Startups.co, Clarity, Fundable, Launchrock and Zirtual.