New grant funding round for cutting-edge local technologies
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 [...]
Design Innovation Seed Fund Impact Report 2022: Discover how our grant funding has helped local innovators
The DISF provides grant funding on an 80:20 split to designers, inventors, entrepreneurs and product developers with pre-revenue innovative technologies and tech-enabled ideas and products, to help [...]
APPLICATIONS OPEN: CDI Capital Growth Fund
Despite the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic and other shocks to our economy, there are green shoots of growth in some sectors - this includes, for example, [...]
R4m in grants made to date to support local innovation
Our Design Innovation Seed Fund (DISF), in its current active rounds of funding, has supported nine projects [...]
CDI Growth Fund ahead of targets for job creation despite COVID-19
Image above: Barrydale Hand Weavers The third quarter of 2020/21 has so far been the best quarter [...]
Support rolled out for businesses on CDI Growth Fund
The CDI has over the past two months approved applications and is contracting for R7.5m in COVID-19 [...]
Relief funding available for businesses on CDI Growth Fund
The Craft and Design Institute (CDI) has secured R9.5m of COVID-19 relief funding for businesses it supports [...]
Vula Mobile on the digital frontline in fight against COVID-19
Cape Town based technology start-up Vula Mobile has been on the digital frontline in the fight against the COVID-19 [...]
New grant funding round for cutting-edge local technologies
Applications are now open for the Design Innovation Seed Fund (DISF) – Western Cape based designers, inventors, [...]