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

African Emerging Ventures provides venture and development capital to projects addressing food and energy security in the SADC region.

African Emerging Ventures (AEV) is an investment company based in the Seychelles. AEV is actively investing, through its first fund, in innovative and highly skilled entrepreneurs and management teams based in Botswana.

AEV has established a unique project development and incubation platform focusing on technology driven businesses and technology transfer opportunities. AEV provides venture capital and project development support to primarily, green-field

Adams & Adams is an internationally recognised and leading African law firm that specialises in providing intellectual property and commercial services.

With primary office locations in South Africa and branches and associate offices in a number of African countries, our firm’s leadership position is reflected in the groundbreaking work we do, the valuable client relationships we have and the quality of our professionals.

Our more than 200 professionals specialise in various legal and technical disciplines in intellectual property law, commercial and property law, and litigation. We proudly

Marula Oil processors go through 300 tonnes of Marula fruit pulp to extract just 12 tonnes of cosmetic oil. We asked ourselves, what exactly happens to all that fruit?

At Maungo Craft we make Award-Winning, preserves and sauces using indigenous fruits like Marula and Baobab. We work with oil processors that extract Marula oil while we save the fruit, turning it into award-winning preserves and sauces. By working with the Indigenous Oil processors we help to employ around 1000 mostly female harvesters down the value chain in the villages like Gabane.

As Maungo Craft we also work with local

Doctors E-Consult is an online platform that is bringing together doctors, patients and pharmacies from all over the country into one application. Having seen the devastating effects which resulted from the Coronavirus. We noticed that access to healthcare was very limited due to the restrictions and curfews that were put in place by the government as a way to help stop the spread of the deadly virus. But prior to the pandemic, our health facilities are usually very congested. Not only that specialist doctors are concentrated in the capital city making it financially burdensome on those people

The Wire Media Agency (Pty) Ltd is a female, youth and wholly citizen owned enterprise which was incorporated in 2013, 30th October. We are an Information and Technology company with 7 employees and provide Smart Digital Workplace Solutions to offer enhanced, interactive experiences to the education, healthcare, tourism and business occupants, visitors, managers and operators. Combined with new forms of Cloud-based platforms. The Wire IT is a full-service solution provider, we provide solutions that enable business and empower our customers with the following:

• Enable you to focus on your

The Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCAL) is a joint initiative of Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Germany in response to the challenges of global change.