South Africa

4Di Capital is a venture capital fund manager focused on high-growth technology venture opportunities in the Southern and Eastern Africa region.

4Di Capital is an independent venture capital fund manager based in South Africa’s “Silicon Cape”, specialising in high-growth technology venture opportunities, at the seed, early-and growth-funding stages. The fund manager has offices in Cape Town, South Africa and Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. and funds are managed by the GP partnership team of Anton van Vlaanderen, Erik van Vlaanderen, Justin Stanford and Laurie Olivier.

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.

The CDI is a craft and design sector development agency with a mission to develop capable people and build responsible creative enterprises trading within local and international markets.

The CDI is a non-profit company with over 20 years of success in developing creative people, small businesses and the craft and design sector at large in South Africa. The CDI is a catalytic agent of change in the sector, and passionate about developing appropriately skilled, resourced and digitally proficient practitioners who can successfully leverage opportunities for growth and development.

The CDI

Silicon Cape is an NPO and an ecosystem enabler for tech-enabled startups in the broader Cape Region of South Africa. We work to connect stakeholders, curate ecosystem data, amplify the stories coming out of the ecosystem and advocate on behalf of stakeholders through our membership programme.

Far Ventures is a Cape Town-based start-up studio which builds start-ups from scratch, along with outstanding entrepreneurs.

Our expertise is in creating start-ups, investing the first capital, and recruiting talented entrepreneurs to scale the business and prepare it for its first external fundraising round.

The Durban Innovation Hub is a technology incubator and business advisory firm that seeks to promote a vibrant and collaborative ecosystem by connecting public and private enterprises with gifted African inventors, creative business technologists, data analysts and behavioural scientists.

It is a civic technology lab creating a community of technology entrepreneurs by providing an enabling environment and equipping them with functional tools to make their ideas work.

Services:

• Product and service design
• Research and testing
• Hackathons, sprints and co-creation
• Testing and usability

Seda Construction Incubator (SCI) is a public benefit organisation mandated to develop and mentor emerging construction companies in South Africa. 

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.