Savant recently officially launched its hardware technology business incubator, in partnership with SEDA. Its offices in Zonnebloem in Cape Town were inaugurated by Small Business Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu.
A host of media and high profile delegates arrived to view meet, greet and view the products and presentations of some of Savant’s leading, hardware technology-focused, venture partners.
Some of the ventures on display and/or presenting included:
- Smartblade – a medical devices company with a novel video laryngoscope that harnesses smartphone technology
- Incitech – a rapid diagnostics and medical device company specialising in easy-to-use technologies for institutional and retail customers
- Intelligent Safe Technologies – a manufacturer of smart, incredibly secure, multicompartmental safes for high-risk, high-value retailers
- Quickloc8 – an innovative transportation logistics and visibility service provider
- Stellenergy – an industrial concentrated solar power project that uses smaller, smarter and modular heliostats to overcome cost challenges
- FormFoods – a food innovation company with worldwide, industry leading, proprietary technology that produces unique, cost-effective products in almost any food segment
- Veggie Crisp – a healthy snack food innovator the produces vegetable crisps using real vegetable inputs and a patented process that excludes any unnatural additives
- LiQuerc (formerly oranet) – a manufacturer producing an organic extract that is implemented during the wine-making process that makes it more cost effective and produces consistent results
- AgriRevolution – have developed a mechanical, commercial agricultural product that improves soil conditions and therefore farm productivity
Some of the media coverage from the event is mentioned below:
- Ventureburn: State, private sector must partner to ride out Fourth Industrial Revolution – Zulu
- Silicon Cape: Meet Savant the acclaimed South African incubator, in search of the next Elon Musk
- ITWeb: Seda taps Savant to focus on tech inventions
- BizCommunity: Seda partners with hardware tech investor Savant
- BusinessTech: The search for South Africa’s next Elon Musk
