Funded Startups & Projects

Abiri Innovations provides livestock tracking and monitoring for rural households and smallholder farmers to protect their animals against theft, detecting diseases and preventing sudden deaths.

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African Applied Chemical (Pty) Ltd is a bio-technology company that specialises in the manufacture of a proprietary slow release fibres (Bi-KoTM). These fibres are made mainly from polypropylene copolymer. The fibres are specially engineered to store a high amount of liquid within their matrix and slowly release small amounts over a long period of time.

This technology is aimed at slowly releasing high value actives in order to prolong their residual effectiveness and reduce the overall cost of their use in practical applications. 

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Application of algorithms from SARAO & SAAO to generate novel algorithms for the medical imaging using 3D reconstruction from multi-view X-ray images.

The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) is a National Facility managed by the National Research Foundation and incorporates all national radio astronomy telescopes and programmes.

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Bambili Energy is a South African black-owned and managed clean energy solution provider. It is committed to providing clean and flexible energy solutions. It holds interest in Hyplat, which produces MEAs, the most critial and valuable element in a fuel cell.

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