Gauteng

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.

Garden Route ITC Incubator offers a wide range of incubation services to support local innovative ICT entrepreneurs with a safe and subsidised environment from which to launch products and build their businesses.

The headquarters of the organisation are in Gauteng, South Africa. 

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

Workshop 17 is a co-working space with seven locations in Gauteng and the Western Cape in South Africa, creating a hub for innovation and entrepreneurship.

The eKasiLabs programme is a micro innovation hub facility spread across the five economic corridors in Gauteng, South Africa where it fosters and cultivates a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in townships.

Its facilities are located in Mohlakeng, Sebokeng, Garankuwa, Soweto, Tembisa, Alexandra, Mamelodi, Kagiso, Kathorus and Mabopane.

The programme has an emphasis on innovative solutions that have the potential to impact different spheres of society, such as business, government, and civil societies.

eKasiLabs offers two development programmes in skills and enterprise development

AlphaCode Club is a club for financial services entrepreneurs, which is supported by a physical workspace and a virtual platform.

Launched by Rand Merchant Investments in 2015, AlphaCode identifies partners and grows next-generation financial services entrepreneurs, through incubation, acceleration, collaboration and investment.

Iraka Biotech (Pty) Ltd is a biotechnology company providing technology solutions that further One-Health Solutions. The company has developed a novel reactor for producing inactivated vaccines. The reactor enables an innovative production method which not only reduces the cost of production of vaccines by (50%) but does not comprimise the qaulity of the vaccines.

Aselukhanyo is an infant born into aggregation space as of June/July 2018, and has been involved in the aggregation of mainly smallholder farmers into quality conscious food companies especially other upcoming food startups. The company focuses narrowly on the smallholder farmers utilising market access and logistics enablement as services to farmers in need of both.

The company was established as a manufacturing concern into Agri-tech formerly through trying to attain the storage of meat products without refrigeration. The initial product was Frizile Package - storage container made up of

KasiConvocation is a company that was registered in July 2019 to operate in the social network space. It is based in Johannesburg. The company wants to set up a South African based social network platform that will be opened for use in South Africa, the Sub-Sahara region and in different countries around the world as the business grows. KasiConvocation will provide a number of products and services that will be useful for both social and business use.

The Director has identified an opportunity for ensembles like stokvels, co-operatives, burial schemes and small businesses that would benefit

Simple influence, connect markers with vetted influencers online. The platform grants private (1-on-1) access to top influencers to nano and micro-influencers at affordable rates for personalised growth strategies. Top-performing influencers consequently earn extra income by coaching 1-on-1 on a scalable platform.

We have set up a pilot and relationships with 3 upcoming influencers to test the assumptions that we have about the 1-on-1 coaching: https://simpleinfluence.co.za. We'll expand beyond South Africa and test the pilot in Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya.