Supporting Innovation
We prioritize projects with the potential to revolutionize their industries, providing strategic and non-financial support through grant and fundraising facilitation, co-investment opportunities, and business acceleration services. Every investment must have returns and its inventor must have the ability to valuate their innovations. KURIOUS is keen to determine various valuation approaches on every R&D in order for parties to leverage their investment.
- Fore sighting Disruptive Tech:
Through trend analysis and expert insight, we help stakeholders anticipate and prepare for the next wave of scientific breakthroughs. - Investing in the Future:
We identify scalable inventors, ventures, and early-stage innovators who are keen on reshaping our future. Our goal is to link them with long-term funding and support structures. - Building the STEM Workforce:
KURIOUS is committed to cultivating a pipeline of talent, knowledge, and inventions through training, mentorship, and collaboration with Tech Offices in Higher Education Institutions. - Fostering Partnerships:
Our open innovation model connects start-ups, corporates, researchers, and policy-makers to co-create transformative outcomes. All partnerships must yearn for mutual benefits with horizontal key indicators of performance. - Informing Industrial Policies:
We actively contribute to shaping forward-thinking policy frameworks that promote innovation and technology adoption across Africa and beyond.
A leading deep tech investor
We focus on value-add investments – leveraging our world class technical expertise, facilities and strong partnership network – to stimulate impactful investment into early-stage deep tech businesses.
A hand-picked, highly skilled, and experienced team
Our senior investment team has substantial experience of making equity and debt investments into SMEs as well as expertise across a number of disciplines and fields.