Qualcomm Completes First Year of Africa Innovation Platform and Announces Additional Benefits

JOHANNESBURG / ACCESSWIRE / December 12, 2023 / Qualcomm Incorporated today announced the completion of the first year of the Africa Innovation Platform, a suite of mentorship, education, and training programs created to support the development of Africa's emerging technology ecosystem. The platform has provided resources and support for local universities, ten small-to-medium sized startups, and grant participants. The program exposed these groups to Qualcomm Technologies Inc.'s engineers and its state-of-the-art capabilities suite for mobile platforms and technologies, including 4G, 5G, IoT, AI, and machine learning. Qualcomm also announced several additional benefits to the Innovation Platform for this year's participants:

• Social Impact Funds from the Qualcomm Wireless Reach Initiative to help QMIA startups scale.
• Patent filing incentive fund, to help QMIA startups protect their inventions through patenting.
• QMIA 2024 program launch for mentoring 10 deep-tech startups in Africa.

During 2023, Qualcomm's Africa Innovation Platform reached the following milestones:

• Qualcomm Make in Africa Startup Mentorship Program: As the first initiative of its kind in Africa, this equity-free mentorship program identified promising early-stage startups keen on applying advanced connectivity and processing technologies to innovative end-to-end systems solutions, including hardware, and provided these companies with business coaching, access to engineering consultation for product development, and guidance on protecting intellectual property. The inaugural cohort includes the following startups (listed in alphabetical order) :
  • Ecorich Solutions - patented organic composting in Kenya
  • Fixbot - Vehicle diagnostics and inspection via OBD dongle in Nigeria
  • Karaa - e-Bike tracking, charging, retrofit, and rentals in Uganda
  • Maotronics Systems Limited - IOT-enabled precision agriculture in Nigeria
  • Microfuse - Affordable plugin computers for the education sector in Uganda
  • Neural Labs Africa Ltd - Deep learning and AI for healthcare diagnosis in Kenya
  • OneTouch Diagnostics - Diabetes patch and monitoring system in Kenya
  • QuadLoop - Leveraging e-waste for solar e-Lanterns and battery storage in Nigeria.
  • SLS Energy - Recycled lead-cell battery storage banks in Rwanda
  • SolarTaxi - Electric vehicle (EV) taxi and fleet management in Ghana
• Qualcomm Africa University Relations Program: This program bolsters the research and educational capabilities of select African universities, research labs, and students by enhancing engineering curriculum and providing training on technologies such as Extended Reality, Robotics and AI/ML using Qualcomm platforms and developer kits.
• Qualcomm Academy: Qualcomm's education and training arm expanded its 5G University Training Program to students at select African universities and organizations, who received 5G training and certification from industry-leading engineers.

Qualcomm is pleased to enhance the Africa Innovation Platform with the following new benefits:

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