Funded Startups & Projects

North-West University's Backchat  is a computer software program developed at the North-West University (NWU) designed to provide personalized, interactive, and large-scale audio feedback for student assignments, easing the burden on lecturers. The program allows lecturers to record audio comments that can include both pre-recorded feedback for common errors and unique, specific comments for individual students, integrating them seamlessly for efficient and effective feedback delivery.

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Newform Foods is a producer of cultivated meat intended to reinvent how people think about food, for the benefit of the planet, human health, and animals' lives. The company utilizes cell-harvesting and serum-free culture medium and growth factors to engineer optimal scaffolds and develop the traditional mouthfeel and textures of meat, enabling customers to purchase healthier meat products while making its consumption more sustainable at the same time.

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Locstat is a graph intelligence platform with customer driven industry and point solutions, incorporating graph-based AI, analytics and event processing, that enables organisations to rapidly scale next generation data solutions.

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Qwili is a vibrant, African-run company specialising in the creation of a digital sales ecosystem that empowers merchants to offer value-added services to consumers who often face barriers to accessing these services. Originating in Cape Town with deep roots in the rural Eastern Cape, our digital sales ecosystem has expanded its footprint, now serving Merchants across South Africa.

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