South Africa

Enterprise Elevator is a partner-driven incubator designed to scale high-growth tech businesses that provide positive social impact.

It is a South African-based collaborative business accelerator programme focused on high-grow technology enterprises that are motivated by the social challenges confronting the African continent.

Its mission is to reduce unemployment in emerging markets through the promotion of and investment in entrepreneurship.

Enterprise Elevator achieves this by discovering the best social impact start-ups in emerging markets and helping them succeed on a global scale.

Aurik Business Accelerator is a business accelerator that provides customised business growth programmes aimed at growing a business to the next level. 

Digital Health Cape Town is a digital health accelerator in South Africa.

Through corporate-start-up partnerships,  social impact ventures and business innovation ecosystems, we help high-growth, high social impact businesses to succeed, and we support established enterprises that are at risk of being disrupted. 

This work includes:

• Strategic business development, new ventures, investor pitches, and business planning
• Corporate innovation strategy and implementation
• Corporate /start-up ecosystem development,  partnerships, and community development 
• Pharma innovation, change and

Smorgasbord is dedicated to supporting and incubating food start-ups. 

Creating, curating and building new engagement platforms around food and beverage is our mission.

We are concerned with the growing need for sustainable food ecosystems that are accessible to all across the African continent.

And we aim to create public-private-government conversation, participation and action across all sectors of the modern food system.

Food and beverage trend analysis and delivery from a local, continental and global perspective.

Curating food and beverage dining

WomHub provides hub support programmes and co-working facilities for female-founded teams.

It offers a suite of services, from tailored services for the individual founder all the way through to working with corporations that are focussed on building a diverse supply chain and workforce that is ready for the future. ​​

The UCT GSB Solution Space is an ecosystem for high-impact early-stage start-ups, corporate innovation, and entrepreneurship development.

With a focus on innovation through collaboration, our approach involves holistic capacity building for entrepreneurs.

It supports entrepreneurs' learning and growth by giving them access to resources, corporate partners, mentors, advisory services, co-working space, and academic and industry experts.

UCT GSB programmes:

• MBA Innovation & Entrepreneurship Programme - A future-looking programme that focuses on innovation and the creation and scale-up of

Injini is an edtech incubator and seed investment programme that aims to improve educational outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa. 

The organisation offers the following to selected African edtech ventures: 

• Financial support – in the form of grant funding or investment.
• Coaching – sponsored consultations with industry experts and subject matter specialists on topics ranging from curriculum design to marketing to financial management to impact M&E and much more.
• Mentorship – from the Injini team and experienced business leaders in relevant sectors.
• Strategy support from the Injini team and

The Cape Innovation & Technology Initiative (CiTi) is a Non-Profit Company with a mission to build a future-proof, inclusive society through technology and innovation. 

CiTi was established in 1999 and works at the intersection of business, government and society to positively shape the future of the economy and society with the use of innovation and technology. Its headquarters are located in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

Citi has niche-specific programmes: 

1. BioCiT is a platform for biotech entrepreneurs to turn ideas into creative solutions.
2. Injini is Africa's edtech

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

FEMTECH is a South African-based company that offers a comprehensive modular training programme for women entrepreneurs who wish to grow their businesses substantially.

It is underpinned by a train-the-trainer programme to allow local capacity building of women trainers. This programme has been implemented in three African countries, namely, Namibia, Tanzania and Mozambique.