Technology Innovation Agency

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Technology Innovation Agency Compute

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www.tia.org.za/funding-instruments/ · cloud VM · compute/technology-innovation-agency · JSON · compare

Free tier	Grant funding for technology development at TRL 3 to 8, delivered through university technology transfer offices, science councils and incubators. Regional calls publish the size: the TIA Pre-Seed Fund 2026 Eastern Cape call gives 'grant funding ranging from R50,000 to R650,000 per project', and the TIA x Savant call caps at R1,200,000 including VAT. unit none; metered on wall-clock; grant
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	institution not published
Limits	write-gated The fund does not take direct applications from individuals: awards run through 'University TTO/Research Councils' and 'Incubators/SMME Partners', so an applicant needs a host institution or an accredited incubator in South Africa before a proposal exists. source The fund does not take direct applications from individuals: awards run through 'University TTO/Research Councils' and 'Incubators/SMME Partners', so an applicant needs a host institution or an accredited incubator in South Africa before a proposal exists.
Binding	write-gated The fund does not take direct applications from individuals: awards run through 'University TTO/Research Councils' and 'Incubators/SMME Partners', so an applicant needs a host institution or an accredited incubator in South Africa before a proposal exists.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	Because awards are routed through an incubator, the practical unit is the incubator's own call rather than the national fund, so a grant seeker monitors Propella and the other named partners rather than TIA itself; that is where the R50,000 to R650,000 band is published.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The published bands disagree by an order of magnitude across calls, from R50,000 at the Propella Eastern Cape round to R1,200,000 at the Savant round, so the fund has no single ceiling and the call matters more than the instrument. Three readings were considered. (a) An individual innovator can apply directly: refuted, the partners list routes applications through HEIs, science councils or incubators. (b) A foreign-owned South African company qualifies: unresolved, the criteria name SMEs without an ownership test, but the partner gate is the one that decides in practice. (c) The TRL 3 to 8 window excludes pure software: refuted, nothing read restricts the technology type. What would settle whether cloud compute is an eligible cost: a specific call's budget guidelines, which were not read.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (5)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	www.tia.org.za/funding-instruments/	'Funding Criteria - All projects beyond basic research - TRL: 3-8', quoted
2026-10-22	www.tia.org.za/funding-instruments/	'SEED Fund Partners: University TTO/Research Councils, Incubators/SMME Partners', quoted
2026-10-22	innovationbridge.info/ibportal/content/tia-pre-seed-fund-202	'The TIA SMME Seed Fund administered through Propella provides grant funding ranging from R50,000 to R650,000 per project', quoted
2026-10-22	innovationbridge.info/ibportal/content/call-applications-tia	the TIA x Savant call is 'R1,200,000 including VAT, for a maximum', quoted
2026-10-22	www.tia.org.za/storage/2026/03/EOI-Seed-Fund-Implementing-pa	applications are submitted to '[address removed]' with a partner-based delivery model, quoted from the expression-of-interest document

More fields (1)

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Unknown or withheld values (10)

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$.identity_cost.detail process
$.interface interface-unknown
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$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated