Financial and insurance activities

The Companies and Intellectual Property Authority (CIPA) is mandated to register businesses and protect intellectual property rights through the administration of four (4) pieces of legislation namely;

1. The Companies Act (CAP 42:01), provides for the incorporation of companies; registration of post incorporation returns and notices; monitoring of post incorporation returns and reservation of company names.

2. Registration of Business Names Act (CAP 42:05), provides for the registration of business names and post registration notices such as change of ownership and cessation of businesses

The Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) is an agency of the Department of Trade and Industry (dti) in South Africa. 

Functions of the Commission

• Registration of Companies, Co-operatives and Intellectual Property Rights (trade marks, patents, designs and copyright) and maintenance thereof
• Disclosure of Information on its business registers
• Promotion of education and awareness of Company and Intellectual Property Law
• Promotion of compliance with relevant legislation
• Efficient and effective enforcement of relevant legislation
• Monitoring compliance with and

Abela is a mobile payment platform that allows users to make payment and receive payments without the use of a bank account. Our unique solution offers underserved communities the ability to earn, spend and save their money how and when they like at cost-effective rates and with a platform which is easy to use. Our aim is to provide our customers with a fully inclusive digital banking solution and to give our customers first time access to digital financial products and services.

The purpose of the Entrepreneurial Planning Institute (EPI) is to "Unlock Entrepreneurial Possibilities"​.

We improve the QUALITY OF SUPPORT entrepreneurial organisations and small businesses receive from practitioners such as business advisors, trainers mentors, coaches and other enterprise development professionals who are involved in Entrepreneurship, Small Business Growth or Enterprise & Supplier Development (ESD) programmes.

Our services are in the main aimed at PRACTITIONERS who wish to make a difference through the support they provide entrepreneurs. We train, mentor and coach them

Personal finance, in our opinion, ought to be simple, useful, and easy. Saving customers money, getting them the best offers, and finding them promotions is our main goal. Consider a daily application that people would use to perform tasks ranging from grocery shopping to everything in between.

Hahn & Hahn is a boutique firm of Intellectual Property practitioners specialising in drafting patent specifications and obtaining and protecting Patent, Design and Trade Mark rights anywhere in the world.  We also specialise in IP litigation and all commercial aspects related to IP.  Our professional staff includes Chemical Engineers, Electronic Engineers, Mechatronic Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Chemists, Biotechnologists and Physicists, who all practice in the fields of intellectual property law.  Hahn & Hahn represents some of South Africa’s and the world’s top

Entrtechnologies provide timely business information solutions. Our capacities involve application development, virtual tours development, software development, wireless technology, enterprise networking solutions, enterprise management, integration security technology, business intelligence, strategic delivery capabilities and a host of other ICT-related services.

We help develop and digitalise entrepreneurship support programs. If you help entrepreneurs with incubation, knowledge or grants, come to us so we can see how you can utilise our methods and technology to build your program.

Entreprenerdy’s standard method is called S-E-A-M, or Systemic Entrepreneurship Activity Method. This method was developed at NTNU in collaboration with several researchers in entrepreneurship and innovation from several European universities. The method is based on a comprehensive literature study and incorporates the leading modern theoretical directions in the field of

The Technology Stations Programme (TSP) was established to enable Universities of Technology (UoT) to provide technology development services to small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The Technology Stations (TS) provide innovative Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) solutions for complex engineering challenges within the relevant industrial sectors aimed at supporting government's socio-economic priorities.

There are 18 TS based at 11 Higher Education Institutions in South Africa, managed by the TSP Unit based in Pretoria at the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) office. The TSP is a

Savant is a commercially-focused hardware technology incubator that provides bespoke business development support. Savant partners with highly skilled science and technology inventors for their start-up growth journey.

Savant Technology Incubator de-risks hardware technology development and ensures that the start-ups that house these ground-breaking innovations are commercially driven and investable. Savant brings unrivalled technology commercialisation know-how and experience to the South African start-up landscape. We offer bespoke commercialisation support to hardware technology inventors