Lumkani is going to Silicon Valley, wins $50k social entrepreneurship prize

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Lumkani Fire Detection has won the South African leg of Chivas Regal’s Win the Right Way competition — a global initiative that sets out to find and support the world’s top social entrepreneurs.

The Cape Town-based startup has developed an early-warning fire detection system for dense settlements. The small fire detection device consists of heat detectors that send an SMS with GPS locations to community leaders and the local fire department in times of danger.

In 2014 Lumkani also won the award for best startup in the Global Innovation through Science & Technology challenge; the overall prize in the Comfortable Home category for Better Living Challenge 2014; and more recently the startup was named one of the finalists in the SeedStars World challenge held in Geneva, Switzerland.

Source: Ventureburn (link opens in a new window)

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