The application layer for opportunity

Applications, as easy as a WhatsApp to your cousin.

Univio helps people discover, understand and complete opportunities across education, funding and early-career pathways — through a simple conversation.

500+ active students 2,500+ conversations FNB App of the Year
Univio on WhatsApp showing a matched degree with APS requirement met
🎓 APS 41/42 — you qualify
12 programmes matched
Our philosophy

Talent is everywhere.
Opportunity is not equally accessible.

Every year, millions of people navigate the same high-stakes transitions — applying to university, searching for funding, finding internships, entering the workforce. The opportunities exist. But every organisation builds its own system, so reaching them means starting over each time.

Portals

Every organisation builds its own way in

Forms

The same information, entered again and again

Rules

New requirements to decode at every step

The challenge isn't a lack of ambition. It's that accessing opportunity still requires people to navigate systems that were never designed around how they communicate. Univio exists to change that.

The problem

For decades, we've accepted the application scramble as just how it works.

Every organisation that offers an opportunity builds its own way in — different portals, different forms, different requirements. Opportunity exists. Access is fragmented.

Education

University applications

Different institutions, different requirements, different deadlines. People must understand complex admissions systems before they even know where they qualify.

Funding

Funding applications

Bursaries and scholarships often ask for similar information, then send you down separate journeys — resubmitting documents and decoding new requirements each time.

Early career

Career applications

Internships and graduate programmes pile on CVs, forms, screening questions and assessments. Qualified candidates are often lost before they ever reach the organisation.

What Univio does today

Where we started: university access.

Today, Univio helps students calculate their APS, discover degree programmes, understand requirements, find bursaries and get application guidance — all in one conversation.

Instant APS

Share your marks. Get an accurate APS for every university.

Enter your subjects and percentages once. Univio calculates the right APS for UCT, Wits, UP, UKZN and more — each university scores differently, and we handle all of it.

  • Per-university APS, explained in plain language
  • Subject requirements checked automatically
Univio showing APS scores per university
Degree and Bursary Matching

Personalised programmes and bursaries, ranked by what you can actually get into.

Univio matches your profile against thousands of programmes and available funding options, showing exactly why each one fits — APS margin, subject requirements, fees, and closing dates.

  • "Why this matched" on every result
  • Filter by faculty, qualification or university
Univio showing a matched Bachelor of Science programme
11 official languages

Ask in isiZulu, isiXhosa or English — and get answered in kind.

Univio meets students in the language they think in. NBTs, NSFAS, deadlines, requirements — ask anything, any time, and get a real answer right in the chat.

  • A conversational RIASEC career quiz
  • Always-on guidance — no office hours
Univio answering a student question asked in isiZulu
Coming soon

Apply via WhatsApp.

We're taking the final step to eliminate the 26-portal scramble. Soon, you'll be able to complete and track your actual university applications and document uploads right from your chat.

  • Submit applications directly
  • Secure document uploads in chat
Univio showing future apply via WhatsApp feature
A student journey, in minutes

How Univio works.

No download. No login. No tab-hopping. Just open the chat you already have.

1
Quick registration form inside WhatsApp

Register

Three quick questions — name, grade and province. Done in the chat.

2
APS calculator collecting subjects and marks

Enter your marks

Add your subjects and percentages with a simple interactive form.

3
Selecting fields of interest

Set preferences

Pick the fields you're curious about and how you plan to fund it.

4
Univio qualification report PDF

Get your matches

An instant report of every programme you qualify for — and how to apply.

Why WhatsApp?

In South Africa, WhatsApp isn't a chat app. It's infrastructure.

FlySafair issues boarding passes through it. Banks process money through it. Companies deliver payslips through it. We meet students inside a platform they already trust.

The value of Univio

Built for both sides of the application.

One conversation on WhatsApp does the work of a dozen portals — for the students applying, and the institutions they're applying to.

Matched to the right degrees

Enter your marks once and Univio surfaces the programmes your APS and subjects actually qualify you for — no guessing, no blind applications.

Apply once, reach many

Fill in one form on WhatsApp and apply to several universities at once — instead of repeating the same details on every separate portal.

Bursaries that fit you

Get matched to funding you genuinely qualify for — and a notification the moment a new bursary opens that fits your profile.

Answers whenever you need them

Calculate your APS, check requirements and ask anything — in your language, any time, right in the chat.

Complete, verified applications

Every application arrives complete and verified — less admin to chase and fewer gaps to fill.

Reach students who qualify

Put your programmes and bursaries in front of students who genuinely meet the criteria — not the whole crowd.

Real engagement data

See exactly who engaged and what they did — clear insight into your funnel instead of guesswork.

Let's make applications as easy as texting your cousin.

Talent is everywhere; access isn't. Help us build the conversational application layer for opportunity in Africa — start a chat, or get in touch.