Call for Proposals: 2018/1

Biotech startups succeed when three essential variables work together effectively: scientifically sound and market-oriented product, a competent entrepreneur, and the right financial support.

Call for Proposals: 2018/1

By establishing an AM ecosystem that makes use of the network’s existing state-of-the-art AM platform's work, knowledge, and skills base, this project gives patients who would otherwise not receive treatment or the necessary interventions a new lease on life.

Call for Proposals: 2018/1

This project provides an easily accessible platform to creative and business-minded individuals who would usually not have access to their market.

Call for Proposals: 2018/1

From the bottom up, there is need to strengthen innovation ecosystems at the nodes in order to empower young innovators and entrepreneurs.

Call for Proposals: 2018/2

The business support ecosystem analytics platform is a mechanism to drive collaboration and evidence-based planning and decision-making so that resources are allocated to innovation support interventions that work.

Call for Proposals: 2018/2

While there are other online courses and material for new angels, there has been no platform that is Africa-focused and created by African angel investors until now.

Call for Proposals: 2018/1

Education challenges faced in Southern Africa can be addressed by innovations generated by brilliant technology entrepreneurs. However, these entrepreneurs need grass-roots-level support from thriving local edtech ecosystems.

Call for Proposals: 2018/1

This project seeks to roll out and validate an affordable and reliable service targeting economically challenged communities, building from a sub-economic scale to achieve scalability and sustainable revenue generation.

Call for Proposals: 2018/1

Startups will have an opportunity to get skills training, connect with support networks as well as have face-to-face interactions with regional and global investors.

Call for Proposals: 2018/1

There will also be an additional focus on attracting youth and women onto the platform through the collaboration with SANBio and their FemBioBiz Programme and the SA Innovation Summit's female- and youth-focused programmes for innovators.

Call for Proposals: 2018/2

This project combines product and process innovations in anaesthesia technology, training, and customer service to redefine how medical equipment is introduced and sustained in the SADC region.

Call for Proposals: 2018/2

The Seedstars Investment Readiness Programme is a unique programme designed for scalable potential startups with the aim of identifying individual challenges and providing training related to these challenges.

Call for Proposals: 2018/2

This project on the transfer of low-cost water purification technology is determined to build the business capacity of local entrepreneurs while increasing access to affordable, clean, and safe water for all. 

Call for Proposals: 2018/1

Investing in girls to teach them coding will help girls in Africa develop life-changing IT skills and build future careers as successful technology entrepreneurs. 

Call for Proposals: 2018/1

Learners benefit from progressive pedagogical methods and new types of learning environments. These develop a culture of active and independent learning which lays the foundation for future entrepreneurial development.

Call for Proposals: 2018/1

Mashup’s major innovation is the way its ecosystem marshals a full chain of resources to assist marginalised youth in making the transition from passivity, unemployment, and anti-social behavior to participation, productivity, and good citizenship.

Call for Proposals: 2018/1

This innovative approach to skills development can solve the problem of youth unemployment by training young people and assisting those who cannot find employment to create their own businesses.

Call for Proposals: 2018/2

Africa Food 360 Accelerator is an inclusive innovation project focusing on empowering female agro-processors to scale innovation, increase efficiency, and improve delivery, while creating a social impact on rural-based out-grower communities.

Call for Proposals: 2018/2

IDIN–SADC is a regional consortium that veers away from traditional top-down approaches to development and technology intervention, and instead leads a bottom-up movement of grass-roots communities who demonstrate an interest in innovation.

Call for Proposals: 2018/2

The project aims to innovate and design model permaculture solutions, and to communicate and introduce them to the different informal settlements in Namibia.

Call for Proposals: 2018/2

This project will exploit mushroom production, hydroponics, drip irrigation, and greenhouse technologies to boost the yield and production of both leafy and fruit vegetables in the Namibian desert environment.

Call for Proposals: 2020/3

The BeFound Digital Masterclass enables small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to create compelling digital marketing strategies according to their business goals and customer needs.

Call for Proposals: 2020/3

This pilot project seeks to enable and empower 60 entrepreneurs in low-income communities to increase their business revenues with e-commerce, specifically chatbot-powered sales channels over Whatsapp.

Call for Proposals: 2020/3

The purpose of this project is to develop a digital business ecosystem in Southern Africa able to leverage the EdTech infrastructure and education software development in the region.

Call for Proposals: 2020/3

The Integrated Reforesting for Service Providers project seeks to solve the challenge faced by Tanzanian urban investors, diaspora, and forestry companies in transparent service provision for sustainable forestry management.

Call for Proposals: 2020/3

This project utilises team-based group work activities to provide SMMEs and startups with the skills they need to create innovative solutions that augment their businesses’ resilience to external shocks.