Secha Capital is a patient capital holding company that invests in African SMEs looking to grow. We focus primarily on FMCG, Agri-business, healthcare, light manufacturing and business enabling sectors and work alongside founders to reach full potential.

Secha Capital is an early-stage impact private equity firm focused on Africa. Its Operator-Investor model gives small, growing businesses (SGBs) a unique advantage to solve the “missing middle” and “management gap”. This “growth and human capital” strategy creates long-term, replicable social and financial returns. Secha raised a $5M first

The newly launched report delves into the digital innovation landscape as well as how globally, digital innovation has been accelerated due the COVID-19 pandemic. In the report, BCX CEO, Jonas Bogoshi was cited saying that “during the pandemic, digital innovation became a matter of survival...

The World Intellectual Property Management Organisation (WIPO) in partnership with the Portulans Institute, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the Brazilian National Confederation of Industry (CNI), Ecopetrol (Colombia), and the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TİM) published the 14th edition of...

Cooperation has always been a complimenting factor to innovation. People and ideas feed off of one another, allowing innovation to take place on a shorter timescale. The perfect combination might exist between SMEs (Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises) and start-ups.

Why SMEs and Start-Ups...

Deep tech, also known as hard technology, is defined as being a start-up that has the goal of providing technological solutions to scientific and/or engineering obstacles and problems. In the long term, deep tech start-ups tend to aim toward being a corporation themselves; however, in order to...

Open innovation refers to the business model that encourages collaboration and cooperation with individuals outside of a company, as well as other companies and organisations. This concept has become increasingly popular, as the results of this approach have been more effective than those achieved...

Who we are

Abaguquli means Transformers, translated from Zulu. It Is also our philosophy. We aim to transform lives through education and innovation. We are a Black, Women-owned level 1 BBBEE registered non-profit company and nonprofit organisation dedicated and passionate about transformation.

Our Objective

To prepare youth for the fourth industrial revolution through training, information and access to opportunities.

Our Mission

To empower youth with skills to become financially independent and do freelancing, start co-operatives or their own business. Abaguquli offers a range of

Digital innovation company that owns a digital lifestyle AVR station.

Nolizwe Media and Communication (NMC) is a start-up looking to exploit the digital space to provide social solutions such as youth employment and empowerment. The company looks to develop a media and entertainment streaming application allowing for an indigenous approach to streaming content such as podcasting and live streaming.

IM Apparel is an organic skincare line with a wide range of products. All of our products are labeled with organic sticker labels designed by our founder. We also sell these items in bulk to other young aspiring entrepreneurs who want to brand and launch their own lines. We have experienced tremendous growth as a result of providing these services to a large number of entrepreneurs, including the Durban University of Technology. Our services have also expanded into design, as it all complements our offering. We hope to get our retail products into local well-known beauty bars, and we are also