{"id":229021,"date":"2026-03-30T14:06:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-launches-program-linking-startups-to-150m-climate-fund\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T14:06:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:06:46","slug":"botswana-launches-program-linking-startups-to-150m-climate-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-launches-program-linking-startups-to-150m-climate-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana Launches Program Linking Startups to $150m Climate Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Botswana Innovation Fund and Scalar International launched the Scalar Botswana Innovation Program, a 12-month initiative to support climate and digital technology startups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">The programme, launched on March 10 in Gaborone, will select 10 startups and connect them to a $150 million decarbonisation fund aimed at scaling solutions across Southern Africa. It forms part of Botswana&#8217;s strategy to position itself as a regional hub for climate and technology innovation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The initiative comes as countries in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603300085.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Botswana Innovation Fund and Scalar International launched the Scalar Botswana Innovation Program, a 12-month initiative to support climate and digital technology startups. The programme, launched on March 10 in Gaborone, will select 10 startups and connect them to a $150 million decarbonisation fund aimed at scaling solutions across Southern Africa. It forms part of Botswana&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":229022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[44202,258,256,4718,2462,6239,5111,5957,18758,257,5163,254,8269],"class_list":["post-229021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-150m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-climate","tag-fund","tag-launches","tag-linking","tag-news","tag-program","tag-south-africa-today","tag-startups"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/229021","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}