UpbeatA Nigerian startup's solar battery just won $10,000 — by making power people can control
Acecore, a Nigerian clean-energy startup, has won the $10,000 grand prize at TC Battlefield 2026, TechCabal's startup pitching competition held during its Moonshot conference in Lagos. Its winning product, Powercell, is a locally manufactured solar battery, paired with the Powercore app, which lets homes and businesses see and manage how they generate, store and use electricity. The company grew out of the 'Light Up Africa' initiative and its founders' own experience of unreliable power. The prize is equity-free — the founders keep their company — and Acecore's ambition is to make dependable, intelligent energy an everyday standard rather than a luxury.
The upbeat factorthe people who know unreliable power best are building the fix themselves — and investors just backed them to do it.
SDG 7 · Affordable and clean energy — Mechanism: tech innovation
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