DOB Equity is an evergreen fund with all proceeds from investments being reinvested, making DOB Equity a true long-term growth partner for its portfolio companies.

AfricInvest is an investment and financial services company. The company has dedicated investment teams focused on North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Phoenix Pure Water is a high-level water purification and contaminated water remediation technology company.  Our state-of-the-art purification system is from Pure Water. 

Lavendus Group is a service-oriented company founded in 2017 by three members with the goal of developing a first-rate integrated service structure and other business solutions for the entire country and beyond. While we provide a variety of services, our primary focus is on construction, general supplying, producing juice and ice pop, and putting the best management know-how and efficient logistic follow-up to work for you and your company's needs.

Raizcorp support and scales entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial ecosystem as well as accelerate the success of entrepreneurs. 

Offerings: 

  • Pre-incubation programmes
  • Incubation programmes
  • Acceleration programmes
  • Equity partnerships

Entrepreneurial Benefits:

  • Training
  • Guiding (mentoring)
  • Market access
  • Access to finance
  • Access to infrastructure
  • Entrepreneurial essentials
  • Equity investment

Microtraction is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in African startups at the pre-seed stage.

Microtraction is sector agnostic and heavily biased towards smart, relentlessly resourceful founders who are building high growth, technology driven businesses in billion dollar markets.

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The eKasiLabs is a micro innovation hub facility spread across the 5 economic corridors in Gauteng where we foster and cultivate a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in townships. The facilities are located in Mohlakeng, Sebokeng, Garankuwa, Soweto, Tembisa, Alexandra, Mamelodi, Kagiso, Kathorus and Mabopane.

Offerings: 

  • Business Development support
  • Mentoring (both technical and non-technical)
  • Commercialisation and market development support
  • Value Added service such Intellectual property and other legal service advisory
  • Co-creation facilities that include hotdesking, training

Tender Capital Africa is a woman and black-owned Financial Inclusion Enterprise, whose business mandate is to help remove financial barriers that deter SMMEs from participating in South Africa’s mainstream economy.

Funding; 

  • Invoice Discounting  - Tender Capital Africa advances cash against the due Invoices of an SMME, to enable it to continue its business operations. This allows the SMMEs to pursue production until they are paid.
  • Procurement Finance - Procurement Finance is an all-encompassing finance solution aimed to assist SMMEs carry out and service their respective purchase order

Bottleblack is a South African private clothing company established on in 2018. We design and produce all our garments at our studio located in Tembisa Ekurhuleni.  Nonstikelelo Phumzile Langa is the director and founder of the BottleBlack clothing brand.  She has a National Diploma in Fashion Design, a Further Advanced Certificate in Fashion, Design and Pattern Making, a Certificate in Retail Management and a Certificate in Fashion Merchandising.  She has over 5 years of retail experience and has worked for two fashion houses as an Assistant Fashion Designer.  She has participated in the

Acalytica provides a comprehensive platform for entrepreneurs to grow their businesses, with a focus on practical and hands-on courses and tools. Our tools include:

  1. Website creation tool
  2. Social Proof Marketing
  3. Website SEO Reports
  4. Web Analytics
  5. Email Marketing
  6. Courses

Acalytica was born out of the founder's frustration after attending a number of "entrepreneurship training courses" that were too theoretical and did not directly impact his startup. He noticed that training providers had to hunt around for tools to accompany their courses. To solve for this, Acalytica was formed as a