The CDI’s Design Innovation Seed Fund (DISF) is currently in its third round of funding and is supporting five local innovations – the grant funding has enabled these businesses to reach important development milestones and has helped them to unlock further investment from the private sector. The DISF funds designers, inventors, entrepreneurs and product developers [...]
Above: Pesto Princess is one of the current recipients of the CDI Growth Fund (http://pesto.co.za/) A new application round has opened for the R12.8million CDI Growth Fund to boost SME growth and job creation. The CDI Growth Fund is a grant fund specifically for growing South African small businesses who need a cash injection to [...]
Kapula in Bredasdorp is one of the current Growth Fund recipients. In the past three months, we have created 120 new jobs alone as part of the Growth Fund, and we have reached 357 jobs in total so far from 37 contracted SMEs since launching the Fund in mid-2018. Through our subsidiary CDI Capital, which [...]
A total of R2.8m was disbursed in Round 2 of the Design Innovation Seed Fund (2016-2018) which is reaching its conclusion with the businesses contracted, with final close out reports being completed for the funding round. The Design Innovation Seed Fund (DISF) funds designers, inventors, entrepreneurs and product developers with pre-revenue innovative technologies and tech-enabled ideas [...]
After receiving over 60 applications through a public call at the end of 2017, the CDI – through its subsidiary CDI Capital – completed its shortlisting for round three of the Design Innovation Seed Fund (DISF). It has recently begun to disburse grants to the innovations that were approved by the DISF Investment Committee. The [...]
About 18 months ago, seven Western Cape entrepreneurs received grants of up to half a million Rands each from the second round of the Design Innovation Seed Fund (DISF) – we caught up with them to find out how things are progressing with their cutting-edge innovations. The DISF is a project of the Craft and [...]
A new application round has opened for the R12.8million Growth Fund to boost SME growth and job creation. The Growth Fund is a grant fund specifically for growing South African small businesses who need a cash injection to scale up further and create jobs. The Growth Fund is managed by CDI Capital, which was incorporated [...]
Two of the seven recipients of the second round of the Design Innovation Seed Fund (DISF) have won prestigious awards. SmartBlade took home the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) Fresenius Innovation Award 2017. Dr Caroline Corbett developed the SmartBlade in conjunction with her husband Nick Nevin in a bid to enhance access to [...]
(Left to Right) Najwah Allie-Edries, Deputy Director General Employment Facilitation within the Jobs Fund; Mariette Williams, Programmes Director at the Craft and Design Institute (CDI); Bev Missing, founder and owner of RAIN (Jobs Fund recipient 2012-15) The Craft + Design Institute (CDI) has today launched R33million in funding to boost SME growth, job creation and [...]
It’s been six months since seven Western Cape entrepreneurs received grants of up to half a million Rands each from the second round of the Design Innovation Seed Fund (DISF) – they are moving ahead swiftly with their cutting-edge innovations which could lead to major advancements in the region’s agri-processing, health and bio-tech, and the [...]
