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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.

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

Akili Labs is an award-winning biotechnology company specialising in molecular diagnostic systems development, founded by Charles Faul and Lucas Lotter in 2017, with Dr Farhan Pervaiz joining as a co-founder in 2018.

Based in South Africa with international affiliates, Akili Labs was established after realising the need for easy access to fast-paced diagnostics in the healthcare system.

With innovation and collaboration at the forefront of its company purpose, Akili Labs constantly forges partnerships with organisations around the globe for the development, creation and implementation of

The Fourth Industrial Revolution Incubator (4IRI) is a registered non-profit organisation. The 4IRI was established through funding from SEDA as a response to assist and enable small businesses to participate meaningfully in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. This is an initiative that further aims to inspire young South African entrepreneurs to develop into successful leaders of industry. We are looking to assist these budding inventors and entrepreneurs to develop their ideas into business concepts, prototypes, and possibly into a fully-fledged business.

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

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

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.

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