Funded Startups & Projects

Pelebox also known as Technovera (Pty) Ltd is a South African health-tech company offering smart lockers to radically cut patient waiting times at clinics, from over three hours to under two minutes. Their “Think Inside” philosophy emphasises designing for local realities: they view constraints not as setbacks but as catalysts for creative, frugal, contextually relevant innovation.

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Vitruvian aims to put pathology in the cloud, allowing for reliable, affordable, accessible, and scalable diagnostics. Vitruvian introduces efficiencies into the diagnostic arena by leveraging Artificial Intelligence-enabled diagnostics to provide remote pathology services and reporting that are cloud-based.

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Welo Health is a healthtech platform providing home health services intended to South Africa, the rest of the African continent and to emerging economies at large. Welo Health offers home health care, home virtual consultation, home blood samples collection, home medicine delivery, and online pharmacy services.

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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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