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An overview of Injini’s AI for Education Venture Builder (supported by Coefficient Giving), covering its structure, eligibility, core themes, equity-free seed funding, and 100% IP retention.

Most EdTechs lack evaluation data by asking critical questions out of order. Injini’s roadmap embeds early evidence into product development, preventing costly pivots and flawed scaling.

Digital tools cannot fix South Africa's literacy crisis without empowering teachers. While tech rollouts often leave devices gathering dust, real progress happens through teacher-first design.

Testbeds across Kenya, South Africa, and Rwanda reveal why EdTech fails on real devices, and how native testing drives commercial growth.

AI is widely used in South African schools, but policy lags behind. The nation must enforce learner data privacy, train teachers, and integrate AI literacy into the curriculum.

Refugee education narratives focus on deficits and logistics, reducing children to problems to be solved rather than human capital to be nurtured.

To bridge this massive exposure gap, Monewa Matlwa founded Young Aspiring Thinkers, a digital career development platform that transforms student interests into clear career pathways.

The spark for IncludEDU began with a critical challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic. A special needs institution urgently needed a way to support its students remotely using technology.

Research indicated that children achieve significantly better foundational outcomes when they begin learning in their home language.

Khanyisa’s upcoming EdTech solution, called Hope, will provide an educational plan and tracking tool for children with diverse learning needs.

As an educator, Kabelo experiences firsthand how hours of marking took away what mattered most: teaching. When he couldn’t find a tool to ease this burden, he built one himself.

To empower the children of Zululand who have intellectual disability to function as active, participating members of local communities.

The rollout of an EdTech pilot programme is often measured by visible signals. Thousands of tablets deployed. Active user dashboards trending upward. "Time-on-app" statistics climbing.

For decades, global education discussions have focused on the “leak”, where students drop out of formal schooling or leave without the skills needed for today’s workforce.

South Africa’s education system faces ongoing challenges, including low matric pass rates, uneven work readiness, and difficult transitions into tertiary study and employment.

Leva Foundation's Tangible Africa offers offline group games for real classrooms. Accessible, intentional, and screen-free EdTech.

Since 2023, the Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship, delivered by Injini, has accelerated 36 South African companies redefining the future of learning.

Through the Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship 2026, he is building Dalza, is designed to support children with special needs by helping parents, teachers, and specialists.