Artery Capital
by Tech & Artery
Backs exceptional African founders with $15,000 funding and strategic advisory.
ForEarly-stage founders building in Africa
arterycapital.co.za (opens in a new tab)Software for complex industries · Est. 2015
Tech & Artery brings technology, design and industry understanding together to create software platforms for complex sectors. Our work begins with a close understanding of the system, then finds a clearer way forward. Three products, each with its own name and its own audience.
Products
Each product is live and independent, built for a different industry with a different visual language. Tech & Artery is the parent identity. The products keep their own names.
by Tech & Artery
Backs exceptional African founders with $15,000 funding and strategic advisory.
ForEarly-stage founders building in Africa
arterycapital.co.za (opens in a new tab)by Tech & Artery
Vendor-neutral orchestration for medical-imaging AI, in one worklist for radiologists.
ForRadiologists and the imaging teams around them
bonalab.ai (opens in a new tab)by Tech & Artery
A marketplace licensing wildlife photography, with full provenance from land to buyer.
ForWildlife photographers and the buyers who license their work
traila.io (opens in a new tab)Point of view
We believe the most important systems in the world deserve better design.
Approach
Every product decision runs through both disciplines at once, not one after the other. The interface is never a coat of paint applied once the architecture is settled.
We build the automated and the assistive, but never let software make the person using it feel unnecessary. When a decision matters, the system should sharpen judgment, not replace it.
Hard problems are complicated. The software carrying them doesn't have to be. We take on that work so the person on the other side of the screen doesn't have to.
Industries
Software now moves more capital than paper, and the code becomes part of the product a bank, insurer or asset manager puts its name behind. We build platforms that carry capital as if the people relying on them were in the room with us.
Healthcare software is judged on whether it helped or got in the way at two in the morning, when the person using it has not slept and the decision in front of them will follow someone home. We design for that moment, not for how it reads in a requirements document.
Artists' rights are infringed more than almost any other asset class, and most of the value disappears the moment they are. We build platforms that keep the record of ownership intact from the point of creation to the point of sale, so a licence means exactly what it claims, to the benefit of the artist.
Systems Readiness Assessment
Fifteen questions, about three minutes. Ten describe how you work today; five describe where you are heading. You'll see a score across three areas, three specific recommendations and the product or conversation that fits.
Is your information connected?
Whether critical data lives in one trusted place, moves on its own and shows what is happening now, without someone pulling a report.
Do your tools sharpen decisions?
Whether software and automation help people make better calls, and whether the people who use them had a say in how they were built.
Can you prove what you own?
Whether ownership, provenance and accountability are documented well enough to hold up in an audit, a due-diligence request or a dispute.
Your results appear on screen as soon as you finish. No account needed.
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