Mentoring and Coaching

The Climate Innovation Centre South Africa (CICSA) provides business development support to start-ups in the South African green economy in collaboration with the World Bank’s InfoDev, and the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA)’s green fund. 

• Energy
• Water
• Waste

The South African Creative Industries Incubator (SACII) is an experienced business development and incubation entity that has been working in the creative SMME environment for the past eight years, with a particular focus on the creative industries. 

Services for the Creatives/SMME;

Business Incubation

• Pre-Incubation
• Incubation
• Sector Specific Accelerator Programmes (e.g. Music Accelerator, Fashion Lab programme)
• Formalising Businesses
• Funder Pitching
• Capital Raising Strategies
• Entrepreneurship Training for Creative Industry Entrepreneurs
• Market Access Facilitation

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Africa Beyond the Fourth Industrial Revolution (AB4IR) is a Digital Innovation Hub founded on the market need to redress the digital divide apparent in previously disadvantaged communities of South Africa. Our programmes expose disadvantaged communities to the ICT sector focusing on gaming, animation, virtual reality, and drone technology. We introduce start-up entrepreneurs to new trends in technology and advise them on how to incubate their ideas for market access and commercialise their innovations.

Khaca is a research and innovation enabler based on biotechnology. Its focus is on closing gaps in the field through the use of innovative methods and techniques, as well as raising awareness of the industry among stakeholders and society. Khaca is a South African biotechnology policy research institute. The organization was founded in 2021 with the sole intention of serving as a vital link between all stakeholders in this industry.

Our services:

• Primary Research in Biotech;
• Bio-policies and Bio-entrepreneur Policy Research;
• Ethics Consultation and Advice;
• Education and training;

RadVate Digital is a company with a sole focus of equipping businesses with the essential digital tools they require to achieve their mission. RadVate Digital also assist businesses with the maintenance of their online platforms and digital tools, thus ensuring that businesses can utilize their resources towards value adding and focus more on achieving their core functions. 

Services:

• We Development
• IT Consulting
• Web Hosting
• Business Process Automation
• Graphic Desining
• E-commerce store development
• E-learning platform
• Social Media Marketing

We specialise is manufacturing leather goods such as shoes, bags and belts.

We also specialise is the artistry of patina, shoe refurbishment, leather goods repairs tailoring and bespoke shoe making and bespoke clothing.

Busetsa is a small business that is 100% black woman-owned. We do Conveyor maintenance, repairs and installations. Our clients include Harmony Gold in the Free State. 

ShiftCtrl Solutions is a 4IR technology user and development company. We have implementations in Virtual Reality by producing VR360 videos and we are a 3rd place winner of the Huawei Developer Competition 2022 in the Enterprise Intelligence category for a Computer Vision AI application. ShiftCtrl Solutions was established in 2016 as an IT management services company and has evolved into a Cloud Service company providing cloud consulting services across the various public clouds including Huawei Cloud, AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform. ShiftCtrl Solutions is a company that is managed by

Afrineurs Development Hub trades as Afrineurs Business Consultants and was founded in 2019 and officially registered in July 2020 with CIPC.

We are a 100% Black-owned company with a Level 1 BB-BEE score. Afrineurs Business Consultants is a training and development institution that specializes in marketing solutions. We operate from Gqeberha but have a national foorprint having assisted clients across the Eastern Cape and South Africa as a whole. Our key objective is to assist African Entrepreneurs (Afrineurs) position themselves as leaders in their respective industries through innovative

Taking Care of Business (TCB) is a nonprofit social enterprise that equip aspiring entrepreneurs with the skills and resources they need to unlock their full potential and access the economy.

Programmes 

• Resell - Equipping unemployed mothers to become successful fashion traders within the circular economy.
• Repair - Equipping unemployed South Africans to run appliance repair and trading businesses, reducing e-waste.
• Remake - Equipping seamstresses to run financially viable businesses.
• Redistribute - Donating merchandise and clothing to nonprofits that support the vulnerable.
• Reskill -