South Africa

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

The Institute for Advanced Tooling (IAT) is based at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), Soshanguve South Campus.
IAT-TUT key objectives are to:

• Improve the competitiveness of SMEs in the tooling industry through the growing of highly skilled and educated workers with challenging jobs, which are capable to deliver quality products and processes that meet the OEM requirements.
• Deliver a new paradigm of high added value tools and tool-making business models that will reposition tool and diemakers as key strategic partners in the value chain in accordance with relevant industry needs

We are a South African medical technology business that has developed Bluetooth sensor technology for measuring movement and Range of Motion (ROM) for implementation in the Allied Health Sciences (Podiatry, Physiotherapy, Biokinetics / Biomechanics, Sports Science, and Chiropractor). We are The Movement Data Company (TM) and are passionate about tracking and monitoring movement and assisting with predictive medicine using our technology.  We have been nominated - and were finalists for - 2 innovation awards in 2018 including the MTN App of the Year (Healthcare) and Gauteng Accelerator Project

This Institute of Advanced Tooling (IAT) is based at Walter Sisulu University (WSU) Buffalo City, satellite Campus in East London. IATWSU focuses mainly on mechanical design,  concept and product development, metrology (3rd party measurement), analysis, skills development and more recently, advanced manufacturing and reverse engineering.

The strategic objectives of the station are to provide technology support services and training to the (predominantly) regional manufacturing sector, SME's, inventors, individuals, academic partners and in some cases large companies.

Technology Competencies

Umuzi works with top employers to support young people to access high-value tech and creative careers.

Young people can discover high-value tech and creative careers through our community content platform, Ez’Ntswembu. Anyone interested can start learning immediately through our online learning application process. The most successful candidates from our online learning are interviewed and assessed in-person. If selected, these young people enter our full-time, paid, on-the-job training programme where they learn human-centred design, Agile, and specialise in a scarce tech and creative skill

Our platform can connect to any device with an electronic heartbeat, to be utilized to trigger an alert.  The SaaS has various alert types namely:Rapid Emergency Response,  Rapid Tourist Response (Dept of Tourism), Rapid Woman 911 (Domestic Violence alert), Rapid Asset Protection and more.The technology has three unique characteristics:-    it tracks and trace the victim/asset crime/injured and can determine its location a eight-meter radius every 15 seconds;-    It provides essential information to security and medical personnel detailed information about you e.g. age, allergies, medical aid

The VSG Consulting Group is a financial planning firm, which is passionate about financial education and ensuring that we alleviate the cycles of poverty through innovative products, and diverse thinking.

LNK Innovations, is an innovation company, established in 2012. LNK is a product development company with headquarters based in Los Angeles, California. LNK Innovations products cover a range of industries including hotel/leisure, hardware, fashion, phone chargers, automotive, and GPS. LNK Innovations launched its first product Label-Label Key Caps - the all-in-one stretchy key cap and tag. This launched in January 2014 throughout the U.S. LNK Innovations is now finalizing 2 more innovative keycap designs to the product line that will be due for launch in mid-2015. Our other products are in