Briefly: 2025 ASME ISHOW Africa ventures provide solutions to address agricultural, energy, healthcare, and transportation challenges
New York | The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has announced the regional ventures for the 2025 ASME Innovation Showcase (ISHOW), the prestigious international accelerator of hardware-led social innovation.
Eight social ventures from throughout Africa will pitch their innovative solutions and participate in an extensive design and engineering review with industry experts online beginning Tuesday, June 10.
These eight ventures will vie for three spots in the 2025 ISHOW cohort, offering a share of grant awards and technical support to help bring their impactful innovations to market. The virtual awards ceremony takes place Wednesday, June 18, at 7 p.m. Eastern Africa Time.
The ISHOW Africa ventures’ innovations provide affordable, sustainable hardware technology solutions to agricultural, energy, healthcare, and transportation challenges.
Agrivovle Limited (Nairobi, Kenya) for its “Agrivolve Balcony Units”–compact, self-watering vertical farming systems designed for urban households, enabling users to grow fresh, chemical-free vegetables at home
Baini Technologies Limited (Kampala, Uganda) for its “HemoSave Device” – a solution that offers real-time and accurate quantification of maternal blood loss during cesarean section births, enabling healthcare providers to detect postpartum hemorrhage early and administer life-saving treatments
CIST East Africa Industries Limited (Kisumu, Kenya) for its “CIST-Second Generation Bioethanol Fuel Micro Distillery System” – a solution capable of converting waste cellulose biomass including sugar cane bagasse and water hyacinth into 95% ethanol, blended and stabilized as a cooking fuel and transport energy
GreenWize EV (Nairobi, Kenya) for its “GreenWize EV” – a solution to convert end-of-life internal combustion engine motorbikes into eco-friendly EV motorbikes through a system for battery swapping and open infrastructure for hybrid solar-powered fast charging
H2Energies (Rusape, Zimbabwe) for its “Hydrostove 1.0” – a solution using water and solar power to produce hydrogen gas as an affordable, clean cooking fuel for hard-to-reach rural communities, intended to reduce indoor air pollution and deforestation
I-Dress (at CAMTech Uganda-Mbarara, a University of Science and Technology) for its “I-Dress” solution – an affordable, sterile wound dressing made from gauze infused with honey and olive oil, designed to prevent infection and accelerate healing for post-cesarean wounds in low-resource settings
MariTest Africa (Kampala, Uganda) for its “MariTest” – a non-invasive, AI-powered diagnostic device for rapid malaria detection and monitoring, designed for frontline health workers in remote settings without access to lab facilities
TFS Cargo Bicycles (Benin City, Nigeria) for its “SunHaul Bike” – a solar-powered, electric-assisted cargo bicycle designed for navigating rough rural terrains and equipped with a heat pump for cooling or drying farm produce and a solar tracker for optimized charging on the move.
The 2025 ISHOW cohort will be invited to participate in the annual ISHOW Bootcamp in the winter to receive an extensive and customized design and engineering review by experts curated to guide them as they scale to market.
They will also receive design services to support their product development. They become part of the ISHOW alumni network, an international community of hardware innovators and stakeholders with exclusive access to experts and resources.
The ASME ISHOW India event was held in April and the ASME ISHOW Americas virtual event is scheduled for July 29-31. Three ventures selected from each of the three regional events will join the ISHOW 2025 cohort.
ASME is grateful to its implementation partners around the globe, including The Lemelson Foundation for its continued support of the ISHOW and a multi-year strategic investment in ASME to support the hardware impact innovation system.
The prestigious ASME ISHOW hardware accelerator is open to individuals and organizations taking physical products to market that will have a positive social and environmental impact and that improve the quality of life around the world.
ASME annually matches up to 30 carefully selected innovators/ventures with appropriate engineering experts to ensure that the proposed hardware solutions are technologically, environmentally, culturally, and financially sustainable.
To date, ASME has provided support to over 250 startups from more than 35 countries to solve critical quality-of-life challenges for vulnerable populations worldwide.
ISHOW alumni have developed affordable devices to address key issues related to clean combustion, crop threshing, fetal health, food waste prevention, health diagnostics, safe drinking water, and many more that advance the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals.
ASME ISHOW judges and facilitators include experts in research, sustainability, mechanical engineering and product design, manufacturing, startup financing, supply chain, and business strategy, representing industry, nonprofit organizations, and academia.
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