{"id":183974,"date":"2024-11-05T13:14:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T11:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypts-viridia-tech-wins-mega-green-accelerator-with-ai-solution\/"},"modified":"2024-11-05T13:14:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T11:14:15","slug":"egypts-viridia-tech-wins-mega-green-accelerator-with-ai-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypts-viridia-tech-wins-mega-green-accelerator-with-ai-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt&#8217;s Viridia Tech Wins Mega Green Accelerator With Ai Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><em>TLDR<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Viridia Tech from Egypt wins 2024 Mega Green Accelerator, $100,000 prize for AI-driven crop efficiency platform.<\/li>\n<li> Mirai Solar of Saudi Arabia secures second place with $30,000 prize for solar-powered shade system.<\/li>\n<li> Mega Green Accelerator, launched by PepsiCo and partners, supports startups in food security, clean energy, and circular economy challenges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Egypt-based Viridia Tech emerged as the winner of the 2024 Mega Green Accelerator, securing the $100,000 grand prize during an industry Demo&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411040473.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TLDR Viridia Tech from Egypt wins 2024 Mega Green Accelerator, $100,000 prize for AI-driven crop efficiency platform. Mirai Solar of Saudi Arabia secures second place with $30,000 prize for solar-powered shade system. Mega Green Accelerator, launched by PepsiCo and partners, supports startups in food security, clean energy, and circular economy challenges. Egypt-based Viridia Tech emerged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":183975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[38574,258,256,415,6989,12626,7561,257,6167,254,8437,49900,6552],"class_list":["post-183974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-accelerator","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt-news","tag-egypts","tag-green","tag-mega","tag-news","tag-solution","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tech","tag-viridia","tag-wins"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}