Rob Walter

Africa New Energies was founded in 2011, after Stephen Larkin was invited by the Namibian government to propose a solution for its pending electricity shortages. We were funded by the United Nations affiliated African Innovation Foundation to perform a pre-feasibility study into creating a mechanism to bring about universal clean electricity access to Namibia, in a way that could be repeatable to the half a billion Sub-Saharan Africans who currently lack access. After considering all potential sources, we came up with our Stranded Natural Gas to Solar strategy – where we use our proprietary surface exploration algorithms to locate smaller deposits of stranded natural gas to generate electricity and use the profits to replace the gas with solar over a 20 year period. We were able to make this offer, as we had spent over 7 years in research and development developing these techniques for this purpose. You can imagine our amazement when the first surface geochemical results indicated that not only was there a strong indication of gas, but also of light crude. Our first reports were indicating that we could be sitting on a major hydrocarbons province with billions of barrels rather than a marginal natural gas deposit, which was what we first expected. Even with a conservative view of a payzone(depth) of just 10 foot thick, this equates to a gross unrisked prospective resource of over 1.6 billion barrels on the top seven prospects alone. The company is currently embarked on a pre-drilling exploratory programme involving our surface exploration technique technology with the intention of spudding our first well in 2016.

AddVentures.io is building the global marketplace of the FinTech world. At one end of the value chain are the banks, their SMEs and their consumers. At the other end are the FinTechs. The FinTech connects once to Addventures.io gaining access to the banks on our marketplace and their customers.

Mapcite is a world leading, disruptive, software product and data company. We specialise in helping companies make use of location based data to make better decisions, gain new insights, create value and solve problems. The value differentiation of the Mapcite platform is the ease by which clients’ large spatial and other disparate data sets can be aggregated, then harmonised with open and other proprietary data to unlock hidden insights and present that in a visually compelling manner. The benefits to be gained therefrom are many and varied depending on the specific use case e.g. insurance risk, personalized marketing, mortgage assessment, emergency services resourcing, bushfire risk management, urban planning, etc. We like to focus on industries and solutions where our innovation can disrupt a market and change how it works. We can operate across multiple markets because “Location” is common across most markets: everything happens somewhere! Currently, most of our client work is in Banking, Payments and Insurance.

Shard Capital is an independent financial services company headquartered in London, offering a full range of broking, asset management and corporate capital services. Our strength lies in the balance we strike between established business and start-up attitude, and the ability to provide clients with a truly tailored approach. Our business areas are distinct from each other but benefit from shared expertise, networks and resources to suit a diverse range of private, institutional, intermediary and corporate client needs. Shard Capital services include Fund Management, Investment Management, Capital Markets, Institutional Broking, Corporate Capital and Investor Visa. https://www.shardcapital.com/