Gauteng

House of Aisha is a wholesale and retail company that operates the African Fashion Retail Hub. We are the portal to South African fashion, exposing it to a global trade through a website that exposes middle to lower income seamstresses and designers and provides them with a platform to trade with and to other African countries.

LiquidAfrica is a Sub Saharan Africa focused Corporate Finance and Advisory Firm.

LiquidAfrica offers a variety of Corporate Finance advisory services to established and growing companies in Africa

Capital raising;

• Equity capital raising
• Debt capital raising
• International placement
• Financial Analysis
• Business Planing
• Provision of Information Memoranda, Teasers
• Data-room management
• Transaction structuring
• Assistance in negotiation with potential investors

Imvelo Ventures is a black-owned and black managed VC fund that invests to fast-track the ambitions of South African entrepreneurs.

Offerings; 

• Long term patient capital with no predefined exit horizon
• Business building support
• Access to extensive business networks
• Strictly minority investments
• Board participation by experienced directors
• No fees are charged to the investees
• Strong BEE credentials
• Business competitive strategy and strategic marketing inputs
• Financial, structuring and general business planning advice
• Active, hands-on management support if required

The Transnet Enterprise Development Hub, in collaboration with the Department Of Small Business, Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA), National Youth Development Agency (NYDA), South African Revenue Services (SARS), Gauteng Enterprise Propeller (GEP), and Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) is a coordinated government effort focusing on enterprise development.

Services that SMMEs can expect from the Transnet Enterprise Development Hub include:

• Business development and support services
• Financial support
• Procurement advisory services
• Central Supplier Database

The Entrepreneurs Hub (eHub) seeks to be a leading reliable and value-adding entrepreneurship forum by connecting aspiring entrepreneurs with start-ups, while expanding start-ups’ horizons with expert guidance and mentorship from industry leaders.

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.

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.