News – CDI Capital

New grant funding round for cutting-edge local technologies

ccdi-michael2023-11-16T12:13:22+00:00Nov 16th, 2023|0 Comments

Applications are now open for the Design Innovation Seed Fund (DISF) – designers, inventors, entrepreneurs and product developers with pre-revenue innovations can apply for grant funding of [...]

Impulse Biomedical scoops award at SAB Foundation Social Innovation Awards

ccdi-michael2023-10-17T15:49:51+01:00Oct 17th, 2023|0 Comments

Giancarlo Beukes and Gokul Nair of Impulse Biomedical, won second place in the Social Innovation category at the SAB Foundation Social Innovation Awards for their inventive and [...]

CDI Growth Fund: I Love Coffee grows and takes on new deaf staff

ccdi-michael2023-10-04T11:21:01+01:00Oct 4th, 2023|0 Comments

The CDI Growth Fund provides grant funding to unlock barriers to growth for SMMEs and this growth leads to the creation of new permanent jobs. To further [...]

Design Innovation Seed Fund: Meet South African innovator Ashtech

ccdi-michael2023-08-05T12:58:15+01:00Aug 5th, 2023|0 Comments

The DISF funds designers, inventors, entrepreneurs and product developers with pre-revenue innovative technologies and tech-enabled ideas and [...]

Design Innovation Seed Fund: Meet South African innovator Aizatron

ccdi-michael2023-07-23T13:42:30+01:00Jul 23rd, 2023|0 Comments

The DISF funds designers, inventors, entrepreneurs and product developers with pre-revenue innovative technologies and tech-enabled ideas and [...]

Design Innovation Seed Fund: Meet South African innovator Impulse Biomedical

ccdi-michael2023-07-18T17:19:08+01:00Jul 18th, 2023|0 Comments

The DISF funds designers, inventors, entrepreneurs and product developers with pre-revenue innovative technologies and tech-enabled ideas and [...]

WATCH: #RiseAboveTheNoise with DISF recipient SwiftVee

ccdi-michael2023-07-14T15:27:45+01:00Jul 14th, 2023|0 Comments

Learn how the CDI’s Design Innovation Seed Fund (DISF) enabled the businesses to reach important development milestones [...]

CDI Jobs Fund project creates 669 permanent new jobs

ccdi-michael2023-05-23T13:54:40+01:00May 23rd, 2023|0 Comments

The Craft + Design Institute (CDI) is celebrating the close-out of a five-year R48.5m project, funded mainly [...]

DISF grant beneficiary LIQID Medical wins at Hello Tomorrow Global Innovation Summit

ccdi-michael2023-03-28T16:47:52+01:00Mar 28th, 2023|0 Comments

LIQID Medical, one of the businesses that received grant funding from the CDI’s Design Innovation Seed Fund [...]

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