Young AfroPreneurs

Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship gave us ZamSolar in 2012. We look the idea that the founders had and how they sought to implement it. The idea that would solve a massive problem in Africa, starting with Zambia. As of 2016, ZamSolar as dissolved as a company. What happened? We are left to wonder. Such potential in a startup should not die so premature.

Today we talk about Custos Media Technologies out of South Africa. These guys are combatting piracy from the forefront. They have a watermarking technology for movies, music, ebooks and other forms of media.

Today we talk about the genius or hoax that was Saith Holdings Technologies out of Zimbabwe. Max Salungani Chikumbutso came onto the scene in 2015 with a series of supposedly physics defying inventions.

This episode we talk about Dr Cadx medical image diagnosis tool. It was developed by Gift Gana from Zimbabwe. It is more accurate than the average cardiologist. It uses artificial intelligence in the form of machine learning to diagnose conditions from medical images such as MRI, X-ray and CT scans. It offers a low cost diagnosis tool.

This episodes focuses on introducing the show and what it will be looking at. The focus will be to highlight innovation and entrepreneurship from the motherland. Africa is probably the toughest place to grow a business. We will look at those that have done it, how they have or are doing it, and more importantly how others can learn from them to replicate this.