News – CDI Capital

Relief funding available for businesses on CDI Growth Fund

ccdi-michael2020-07-01T10:02:59+01:00Jul 1st, 2020|0 Comments

The Craft and Design Institute (CDI) has secured R9.5m of COVID-19 relief funding for businesses it supports as part of its CDI Growth Fund. The CDI Growth [...]

Vula Mobile on the digital frontline in fight against COVID-19

ccdi-michael2020-06-17T15:03:01+01:00Jun 17th, 2020|0 Comments

Cape Town based technology start-up Vula Mobile has been on the digital frontline in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. A recipient of CDI’s Design Innovation Seed Fund (DISF) [...]

New grant funding round for cutting-edge local technologies

ccdi-michael2020-03-18T08:47:11+00:00Mar 18th, 2020|0 Comments

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

Growth Fund nears target as new SMEs are signed up

ccdi-michael2020-02-03T09:07:15+00:00Nov 29th, 2019|0 Comments

Above: Namekhotha Trading (Pty) Ltd in Kuruman has created 30 jobs to date The CDI Growth Fund [...]

R2.7m in grants on third round of DISF

ccdi-michael2020-02-03T08:54:37+00:00Nov 29th, 2019|0 Comments

The CDI’s Design Innovation Seed Fund (DISF) is currently in its third round of funding and is [...]

CDI Growth Fund opens for new round of applications

ccdi-michael2019-07-19T17:26:01+01:00Jun 12th, 2019|0 Comments

Above: Pesto Princess is one of the current recipients of the CDI Growth Fund (http://pesto.co.za/) A new [...]

CDI Growth Fund on target for job creation

ccdi-michael2019-06-03T13:59:35+01:00Apr 20th, 2019|0 Comments

Kapula in Bredasdorp is one of the current Growth Fund recipients. In the past three months, we [...]

Design Innovation Seed Fund (DISF) Round 2 reaches its conclusion

ccdi-michael2019-06-03T13:58:09+01:00Apr 18th, 2019|0 Comments

A total of R2.8m was disbursed in Round 2 of the Design Innovation Seed Fund (2016-2018) which [...]

Recipients announced for Design Innovation Seed Fund 3

ccdi-michael2018-10-24T14:35:46+01:00Oct 24th, 2018|0 Comments

After receiving over 60 applications through a public call at the end of 2017, the CDI – [...]

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