{"id":14938,"date":"2019-01-30T09:04:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T09:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsa-global.org\/?post_type=person&#038;p=14938"},"modified":"2023-07-20T20:18:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T20:18:02","slug":"sakhile-xulu","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/wsa-global.org\/person\/sakhile-xulu\/","title":{"rendered":"Sakhile Xulu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span aria-hidden=\"true\">Sakhile Xulu is the Managing Partner of Seed South Capital, a majority black-owned and managed firm that has become one of the leading-emerging voices in the early-stage intellectual property commercialisation domain in South Africa.\u00a0 Working with institutions across the intellectual property commercialisation value-chain, organisations like the Department of Science and Innovation(DSI), the Technology Innovation Agency(TIA), the National Intellectual Property Management Office(NIPMO), the World Intellectual Property Organisation(WIPO), and a few publicly financed research and development institutions in South Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Seed South Capital is in the process\u00a0of establishing The Sisungula Commercialisation Fund, a first of its kind in South Africa, the R350 million fund is positioned to be a market development, launch, growth, and expansion fund that will scale research and development from higher education institutions, science councils, public entities, and the private sector. 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