Accelerators and Incubators

An innovative business, PRD Logical Solutions, focuses on identifying market gaps that are essential to daily life. It identifies a problem and addresses it with creative solutions that are affordable, accessible, and available to every economic class, giving everyone an equal opportunity to handle basic daily difficulties without difficulty.

PrepaidWealth.com is a FinTech platform that provides 80% of the margins made by retailers, on data bundles and airtime, back to the consumer as discounts or as accumulated cash. The platform also provides a way for a group of people to accumulate the margins together, while they are spending their data bundles and airtime discretely. This makes the platform powerful for passively fundraising without members of a group directly contributing money. Groups such as stokvels, schools, churches, residential complexes, work departments, friends, families, etc. can use the platform for fundraising

eGolibio is a South African life science incubator supporting SMEs with products and business development. It supports enterprises in the life science sector with product refinement, market access, networking, training and access to funding.

Its activities are aligned with the Department of Science and innovation (DSI) National Biotechnology Strategy (NBS) in the development of the bioeconomy.

The NBS reflects the government's commitment to biotechnology as an important source of future economic growth and is aligned with many developing and developed countries which invest heavily in

Founded in 2008, The Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) is a non-profit program established by Meltwater with the goal of equipping high potential young Africans with the skills required to launch globally successful software companies, enabling them to create jobs and wealth locally to stimulate economic growth across the African economy. Every year, aspiring entrepreneurs with a strong interest in technology & entrepreneurship from Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, and recently Cote d'Ivoire, apply and compete for 60 open spots in the program. MEST entrepreneurs have

Artificial Intelligence as a Service

Founded in 2016 and based in Johannesburg, South Africa, Solzen Energy is an energy company and a start-up specializing in R&D, design, and manufacturing of disruptive energy storage technologies for application in renewable energy, automotive (electric vehicles), grid storage (on and off the grid) and telecommunications industries. We are currently in the prototype development and application phase of a robust Ultracapacitor built on nanotechnology and manufacturing proprietary processes. Our technology stores as much energy as in a lithium-ion battery but can be recharged in seconds or

Thobela Industries (PTY) LTD is a company that develops and manufactures an energy storage technology (MESA). Our goal is to introduce an efficient, affordable, and environmentally friendly storage solution that will improve the efficiency of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar.

The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) is primarily a science council that funds and conducts health research. Established in 1969 with the aim to deliver on a mandate to promote the improvement of the health and the quality of life of the population of our country through research, development and technology transfer. SAMRC focuses on the ten highest causes of mortality in South Africa including TB, HIV, chronic diseases, alcohol and drug abuse.

Bradley Aviation offers an aviation focused Technology Business Incubator. We create and foster an environment to capacitate and empower people in the aviation industry. Our new state-of-the-art interactive training facility for pilots for up to Air-Transport Pilot License (ATPL) and Multi-Crew Pilot License (MPL), aviation technicians and aviation technology managers, with applied learning paths leading to a qualification at National Qualifications Framework (NQF) level.

The Department of Science of Innovation (DSI), in collaboration with Water Research Commission (WRC), established the Water Technologies Demonstration Programme (WADER) to pull together applied research and development and pre- commercialisation stages of the water innovation continuum. Acting as an innovation intermediary, the Programme’s mission is to facilitate cluster-aligned, demand-driven, collaborative technology demonstrators from the public and private sectors to maximise the potential of the water innovation value chain. WADER promotes the early adoption of promising technologies and