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Three people discussing a laptop screen and paper records during a student client visit.
TISSA × NOVAC Digital Venture IncubatorCohort 01 / 2026/27

Built on campus.
Made for the real world.

Good ideas begin with people. Our students are stepping out, listening closely, and shaping digital solutions around real needs.

Meet the 13 ventures Discover the programme
13
Venture teams
65
Student builders
6months
Incubation programme
TRL 4
Prototype validation target

A cross-semester cohort from B.Accounting (Hons.) and B.Accounting (Information Systems) (Hons.).

Students and potential clients discussing a laptop together at a farm shelter.
Field notesUnderstanding the everyday, first.
Why we start with listening

Real problems.
Real people.
A reason to build.

A useful solution starts with understanding someone else’s world. INCUBASE gives student teams the structure to move beyond an assumption: meet potential clients, ask better questions, and shape an idea around what people actually need.

Get to know Incubase
Beyond the classroom

From field to pitch.

Conversations, early ideas, and a cohort learning to build. This is where the journey begins.

  1. Four people gathered around a laptop during a discussion at an outdoor table.
    Discover

    Start with a real problem.

    A conversation around a laptop brings everyday needs into focus.

  2. A group reviewing a digital system around a meeting table, with laptops and a wall-mounted display.
    Listen

    Make room for another perspective.

    Reviewing a digital system together makes room for questions and different perspectives.

  3. A student presenting the Cakely cake-ordering venture concept beside its projected mission and vision.
    Pitch

    Give an idea a direction.

    Presenting Cakely connects the needs of cake businesses with a possible digital response.

  4. Students seated around tables together during the INCUBASE programme briefing.
    Grow

    A shared place to begin.

    The programme briefing brings the cohort together before six months of developing and validating ideas.

Interface previews

From a question to a first screen.

A look inside a few participating systems. These are early venture directions, still being developed and tested.

VERSUS desktop interface showing a sidebar, tournament cards, and token timers.

VERSUS

Exploring the work behind the game.

Meet the venture
NADI interface preview with a school cooperative login form and a green financial overview panel.

NADI

A digital direction for school cooperatives.

Meet the venture
IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND SEMAI mobile interface with a farm dashboard, crop plot map, and navigation for farming tasks. EARLY SYSTEM SNAPSHOT / MOBILE
SEMAI / AGRICULTURE

Closer to the
everyday work.

Exploring how digital tools could support smallholder farmers, one practical need at a time.

Meet the venture

Open any preview to see it in detail. Interfaces may change as the ventures develop.

Notes from the journey

Inside Incubase.

Stories, milestones, and moments from our venture-building journey.

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12 OCTOBER 2026Programme briefingPast event
20 OCTOBER 2026Digital Venture Pitch DayPast event
1 NOVEMBER 2026Incubation beginsAwaiting update

Prototype testing and validation milestones will be shared as approved results become available.

A student presenting a digital system concept at Digital Venture Pitch Day.
Past event / Milestone

An idea. A problem. A starting point.

Digital Venture Pitch Day forms part of the programme’s early journey, dated 20 October 2026.
A presenter introducing INCUBASE to students during the programme briefing.
Past event / Programme

A shared direction for the journey ahead.

The programme briefing on 12 October 2026 marks an early point in the TISSA × NOVAC incubation journey.
Awaiting update / Programme

The next chapter starts here.

The six-month TISSA × NOVAC Digital Venture Incubator is scheduled to commence on 1 November 2026, supporting 13 student venture teams.
People make it possible

Built by people
who dare to try.

Students from different semesters of B.Accounting (Hons.) and B.Accounting (Information Systems) (Hons.) bring different perspectives to a shared challenge: understanding a real problem, then building and testing a practical response.

The people behind the ideas
Group photograph of the first INCUBASE cohort, with student participants and their lecturer gathered on campus.
INCUBASE / Cohort 01 — the people behind the venturesUUM / 2026
EVERY VENTURE HAS A BEGINNING

The next big idea
starts somewhere.

Explore the ventures. Discover the people. Follow the journey from ideas to real-world digital solutions.

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