Smartfill is a socially conscious smart retail solution for the modern retail environment; a sleek IoT dispenser that revolutionises retail.

The Smartfill IoT dispenser reduces the need for single use plastic packaging delivering a variety of food and cleaning products, streamlining the logistics process, and providing increased margins for retail store owners. All while reducing the impact of single use plastics on the environment.

A digital interface and built-in sensors allow customers to choose the exact amount of produce they would like dispensed by value or by weight. Seeing that there

Iraka Biotech (Pty) Ltd is a biotechnology company providing technology solutions that further One-Health Solutions. The company has developed a novel reactor for producing inactivated vaccines. The reactor enables an innovative production method which not only reduces the cost of production of vaccines by (50%) but does not comprimise the qaulity of the vaccines.

With the vision of being a key enabler of socio-economic development through innovation, KeNIA was set up to develop and manage the national innovation system.

The Kenya National Innovation Agency (KeNIA) is a State Corporation established under the Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Act, No. 28 of 2013 under the Ministry of Education. The core mandate of the Agency is to develop and manage the National Innovation System. The Agency is therefore responsible for co-ordination, promotion and regulation of the National Innovation Ecosystem.

Working with partners, KeNIA strengthens

Platform Entrepreneurial Hub exists to upskill entrepreneurs. We focus primarily on skills related to new venture creation and entrepreneurial leadership, and we provide high impact entrepreneurship education. 

Entrepreneurship education provides our students with the knowledge, skills and motivation to encourage entrepreneurial success in a variety of settings, including starting a business, or creating value within a working environment.

Through our accredited skills training courses and programs, we facilitate knowledge transfer that empowers all our students with skills to create value

Aselukhanyo is an infant born into aggregation space as of June/July 2018, and has been involved in the aggregation of mainly smallholder farmers into quality conscious food companies especially other upcoming food startups. The company focuses narrowly on the smallholder farmers utilising market access and logistics enablement as services to farmers in need of both.

The company was established as a manufacturing concern into Agri-tech formerly through trying to attain the storage of meat products without refrigeration. The initial product was Frizile Package - storage container made up of

Marula Oil processors go through 300 tonnes of Marula fruit pulp to extract just 12 tonnes of cosmetic oil. We asked ourselves, what exactly happens to all that fruit?

At Maungo Craft we make Award-Winning, preserves and sauces using indigenous fruits like Marula and Baobab. We work with oil processors that extract Marula oil while we save the fruit, turning it into award-winning preserves and sauces. By working with the Indigenous Oil processors we help to employ around 1000 mostly female harvesters down the value chain in the villages like Gabane.

As Maungo Craft we also work with local

The Bambara Groundnut, or round bean, is widespread in Africa where it is known by various names. It has potential as a cash crop, owing to its nutritional composition, functional properties and antioxidant potential. 

Consequently, we at CPUT have used the Bambara Groundnut as a raw material to...

Sentian Aerospace (Pty) Ltd is an award-winning, fully fledged drone manufacturing company.The company`s BBBEE status is level 2 with 51% Black ownership.

In 2014 the team embarked on a project to design and build a fixed wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with Vertical Take-Off and Landing capabilities. The idea behind the project was to design and manufacture a locally produced UAV that was versatile in function, affordable and yet globally competitive.

The drone is called the Sentian UAV. What makes our system unique is that it was designed to have multi role mission capabilities. The UAV

Circle of Global Business Women is a global network of intelligent and innovative Women who are authentic in their endeavours to create a leadership shift globally. 

Circle of Global Business Women supports the rise of Women leaders globally and urges them to shatter the glass ceiling in various fields. Circle of Global Business Women embodies a female wave of change and a power circle of Women leading that change.

Programmes; 

Empowerment

  • Enterprise Development Programme for Business Women
  • Empowerment Programmes for Corporate Women, Entrepreneurs and Professional Women
  • Science

AET AFRICA  is an 80% BEE and 55% women-owned start-up sustainability company based in Eastern Cape Dimbaza Industrial Park. AET AFRICA innovates, manufactures and supplies energy efficiency products for water heating and cooling systems and also conducts research on innovating those technologies. The company designs innovative products that would reuse wasted heat, provide accessibility and affordable hot water to all households and commercial users and further pasteurises the water.