Congratulations To Our Entrepreneurs For Making The News
Congratulations To Our Entrepreneurs For Making The News
[27 March 2019]
Since the start of the New Year, The Innovation Hub, its programmes and entrepreneurs have made the news. Click on below links to learn more about the developments of incubated start-ups
Former Tembisa eKasiLab start-up, e-Mbizo was recently profiled by Sawubona. The company was started with the sole purpose to use technology to create a platform that would help bridge the growing gap between the haves and the have-nots. Read here for more on their story https://saasawubona.com/i-am-an-african-thabo-malebadi/
Orders for SustainSolar team have been coming in thick and fast. The CIC incubated start-up has successfully delivered and installed its first offgrid containerised PV storage solution in South Sudan and has partnered with an NGO in Malawi to provide solar power solutions to a boarding school, supporting their rural electrification and educational needs https://www.sustainpower.co.za/project-news/
This is a late feature, however is as relevant today as it was during Women’s Month 2018. 28 year old innovator Nkhosile of Imed, incubated at BioPark@Gauteng, was recently Profiled in Business Day for their Women in Tech feature. Click on the link to hear her thoughts in the under representation of women in leadership in BioTechnology https://www.gate5.co.za/read/33070/qv/73379472/145084687/139443/p
University of Limpopo’s Biodiversity researchers, 2018 winners of Gauteng Innovation Competition, were featured in the Polokwane Observer for their for developing a technology that reproduces Strelitzia plants for medicinal use https://www.gate5.co.za/read/33070/qv/73259204/145057819/139443/p
