Accelerators and Incubators

The Namibia Business Innovation Institute (NBII) formerly known as Namibia Business Innovation Centre (NBIC) is a national leader in research, entrepreneurship and innovation. NBII develops ways of taking your insight from idea to the marketplace by helping you to navigate the innovation process.

NBII operates through the four pillars of: Innovation Marketplace (I’M), Entrepreneurship and Incubation (E&I), Research and Development (R&D), and the RLabs Namibia project.

The NBII proactively stimulates and supports innovation, entrepreneurship and social upliftment through exploring

Satoshicentre is a lab for learning new developments in the bitcoin space, including both second layer technologies. Its headquarters are in Gaborone, Botswana. 

The lab aims to: 

• Mentor and train potential businesses and members of the fintech and blockchain community.
• Build an African blockchain hub that will incubate fintech and blockchain-based start-ups.
• Connect fintech and blockchain start-ups to investors, with the aim of securing funding.
• Provide start-ups with access to funding in a stable environment where all stakeholders aspirations are fulfilled.

Ngwana Africa is a pre-seed start-up accelerator and innovation hub that seeks to build Africa's economic skills capacity by training the continent's next generation of bold, innovative problem-solvers and software developers.

The organisation's headquarters are in Francistown, Botswana.

The Local Enterprise Authority (LEA) provides general business development services in accordance with Botswana's Small Business Act, as a contact place for aspiring and established entrepreneurs. 

Offerings: 

• Entrepreneurship promotion initiatives

• Business development kit (BDK)

• Training interventions 

• Business coaching 

• Business plan development 

• Incubation 

The Botswana-based Institute of Entrepreneurial Development (IED) helps aspiring and early-stage entrepreneurs to turn their business ideas into reality. It supports the development of business skills and knowledge and creates networking opportunities to catalyse the growth of the country’s start-up community.

IED and Venture Creation Labs provide training, investment and mentoring to aspiring entrepreneurs to diversify the economy through the launch of successful start-ups to create wealth and jobs. 

Botswana Digital & Innovation Hub (BDIH) is an innovative, networked organisation that promotes technology, entrepreneurship and commercialisation. BDIH is under the Ministry of Tertiary Education Research Science and Technology, with a board of directors from diverse disciplines to perform fiduciary duties. BDIH is a company limited by guarantee to promote innovative ventures and has two subsidiaries: Botswana Innovation Hub Properties (BIHP) and Botswana Innovation Hub Investments (BIHI).

BDIH is incorporated as a company to develop and manage Botswana’s first Science and Technology Park to

Its a Phyto-pharmaceuticals with a big interest in Trace minerals and Salts

Driven by scientific and technological innovations, Virtitechs designs houses efficiently to reduce energy usage.

branding , research and developemnt of new products

M-TEK is a company based in Gauteng that specialises in the design, development, control and manufacture of precision electro-mechanical components and sub-systems.