Accelerators and Incubators

Lulama & Lupita is a high-end ready-to-wear clothing brand for women and the LGBQTIA+ community that aims to serve chic and stylish clothing.

Okondjezu Investment cc is a company that sells First Period Boxes that are curated to educate young girls on the changes happening with their bodies, and a fun way not to think of their first period as being a horrible experience. First Period Boxes can be purchased as a pre-educational or Welcome to Womanhood gift. We do this because we want to bust the myths, break taboos and end the stigma and silence that surround menstruation and girls' health in Namibia as well as reduce and spread awareness on period poverty.

The CDI is a craft and design sector development agency with a mission to develop capable people and build responsible creative enterprises trading within local and international markets.

The CDI is a non-profit company with over 20 years of success in developing creative people, small businesses and the craft and design sector at large in South Africa. The CDI is a catalytic agent of change in the sector, and passionate about developing appropriately skilled, resourced and digitally proficient practitioners who can successfully leverage opportunities for growth and development.

The CDI

Silicon Cape is an NPO and an ecosystem enabler for tech-enabled startups in the broader Cape Region of South Africa. We work to connect stakeholders, curate ecosystem data, amplify the stories coming out of the ecosystem and advocate on behalf of stakeholders through our membership programme.

Far Ventures is a Cape Town-based start-up studio which builds start-ups from scratch, along with outstanding entrepreneurs.

Our expertise is in creating start-ups, investing the first capital, and recruiting talented entrepreneurs to scale the business and prepare it for its first external fundraising round.

The Durban Innovation Hub is a technology incubator and business advisory firm that seeks to promote a vibrant and collaborative ecosystem by connecting public and private enterprises with gifted African inventors, creative business technologists, data analysts and behavioural scientists.

It is a civic technology lab creating a community of technology entrepreneurs by providing an enabling environment and equipping them with functional tools to make their ideas work.

Services:

• Product and service design
• Research and testing
• Hackathons, sprints and co-creation
• Testing and usability

Seda Construction Incubator (SCI) is a public benefit organisation mandated to develop and mentor emerging construction companies in South Africa. 

Maxum Business Incubators

Maxum Smart provides business development support to start-ups in the smart industries, such as ICT: internet of things, cyber security, big data and analytics, and artificial intelligence; and advanced manufacturing/industry 4.0: industrial IoT, additive manufacturing, and foundry.

Focus Areas:

• ICT
• Advanced manufacturing

Business incubation service offerings are geared towards enabling, growing and fostering start-ups that will create jobs, commercialise innovative technologies and improve competitiveness for Gauteng province, South Africa. 

The Innovation

Lepharo is an accredited provider that specialises in the development of manufacturing, engineering and small business development skills.

It strives to find business opportunities for the incubatees, through marketing, ensuring that they comply with the requirements of big companies, and get sustainable jobs for them.

Chemin is a not-for-profit South African chemical technology incubator and business incubator.

It falls under the Small Enterprise Development Agency’s incubation programme, which is dedicated to supporting the growth of very early-stage technology-based businesses in the South African chemical sector.

Chemin provides clients with an exceptional entrepreneurial business environment that promotes collaboration and innovation and encourages ingenuity as well as the creation of wealth.

Chemin's offerings

Incubation services

• Low Technology Incubation Model
• High Technology Incubation