South Africa

Founders Factory Africa encompasses a unique bunch of creative builders, designers, entrepreneurs and mentors, who bring a wealth of knowledge and years of experience to those they work with.

The organisation has a heart for Africa, is proud to be a part of its complex and flourishing fabric, and is humbled by its history of individual and collective progress.

Locally grounded and globally connected, Founders Factory Africa is becoming the go-to innovation partner for start-ups, investors, governments, and corporations throughout Africa and beyond. 

Founders Factory Africa investment

BioPark Business Incubator provides business development support to start-ups in the health sector in areas such as biopharmaceuticals, medical devices and diagnostics, indigenous knowledge-based nutraceuticals, and cosmeceuticals.

It does the same for start-ups in the agricultural sector in areas such as agro-food processing, bioprocessing, and smart agriculture as well as in the industrial biotechnology sector. 

• Advisory and skills development
• Markets
• Networking opportunities
• Infrastructure
• Funding opportunities

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.

Akro is a company dedicated to helping entrepreneurs turn ideas into businesses.

It offers events, venture funding and consulting services, and it has a practical approach to entrepreneurship.

The team members have their own businesses and understand the challenges facing entrepreneurs and start-ups.

Akro services:

• Co-working spaces in Cape Town: Salt River, City Centre and De Waterkant.
• Girl Boss Hustle: a support channel that assists woman business owners, entrepreneurs and start-ups with the unique challenges they face as they grow.
• Accelerator: a digital accelerator for tech

The FABlab Design and Technology Centre is an advanced manufacturing, prototyping and design lab in Namibia. 

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

Alpha and Omega MedTech is South Africa's Medical Device & Pharmaceutical Holding company that focuses on acquiring manufacturing and distribution companies of medical devices, therapeutics and IVD diagnostics, recognised as the World’s First China-Africa Healthcare Innovation Platform, with a model for partnerships. The vision is to establish and develop an AOM Group as the hub of medical excellence in South Africa. A Center of Excellence where quality medical facilities are clustered. The hub is envisaged as a cluster of medical interrelated facilities and activities that operates at a high

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.