“OMNIVAT was basically born out of ideas and previous work that all of these co-founders had worked on with the hopes that one day, someone somewhere will see Africans’ potential to our own problem-solving and the very real impact that we can have in actually affecting climate change and impacting our own people.”

— Randy Kabuya, Co-Founder, OMNIVAT

OMNIVAT, a South Africa-based, pan-African company, was awarded the $250,000 runner-up prize for its containerized electricity generation and storage system for remote communities.

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