Adams & Adams is an internationally recognised and leading African law firm that specialises in providing intellectual property and commercial services.

With primary office locations in South Africa and branches and associate offices in a number of African countries, our firm’s leadership position is reflected in the groundbreaking work we do, the valuable client relationships we have and the quality of our professionals.

Our more than 200 professionals specialise in various legal and technical disciplines in intellectual property law, commercial and property law, and litigation. We proudly

High Commission of Canada in South Africa.

With the vision of being a key enabler of socio-economic development through innovation, KeNIA was set up to develop and manage the national innovation system.

The Kenya National Innovation Agency (KeNIA) is a State Corporation established under the Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Act, No. 28 of 2013 under the Ministry of Education. The core mandate of the Agency is to develop and manage the National Innovation System. The Agency is therefore responsible for co-ordination, promotion and regulation of the National Innovation Ecosystem.

Working with partners, KeNIA strengthens

Platform Entrepreneurial Hub exists to upskill entrepreneurs. We focus primarily on skills related to new venture creation and entrepreneurial leadership, and we provide high impact entrepreneurship education. 

Entrepreneurship education provides our students with the knowledge, skills and motivation to encourage entrepreneurial success in a variety of settings, including starting a business, or creating value within a working environment.

Through our accredited skills training courses and programs, we facilitate knowledge transfer that empowers all our students with skills to create value

Circle of Global Business Women is a global network of intelligent and innovative Women who are authentic in their endeavours to create a leadership shift globally. 

Circle of Global Business Women supports the rise of Women leaders globally and urges them to shatter the glass ceiling in various fields. Circle of Global Business Women embodies a female wave of change and a power circle of Women leading that change.

Programmes; 

Empowerment

  • Enterprise Development Programme for Business Women
  • Empowerment Programmes for Corporate Women, Entrepreneurs and Professional Women
  • Science

KasiConvocation is a company that was registered in July 2019 to operate in the social network space. It is based in Johannesburg. The company wants to set up a South African based social network platform that will be opened for use in South Africa, the Sub-Sahara region and in different countries around the world as the business grows. KasiConvocation will provide a number of products and services that will be useful for both social and business use.

The Director has identified an opportunity for ensembles like stokvels, co-operatives, burial schemes and small businesses that would benefit

At Chama Money, we want to make investing accessible and affordable for everyone in townships and rural areas through stokvels. Unlike traditional stokvels that focus on short term savings and groceries, we give them access to long term value-creating assets such as investing in equities, bonds and property.

Chaperone is a technological company and issuer of electronic payment instruments, through its platforms. It enables individuals and small businesses (retail customers) to transact, earn and borrow money. We seek to solve the problem of economic exclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa by ensuring that our ecosystems are financially inclusive with access to market/customers.

HYBR is a pan African innovation firm and growth platform for impact scale-ups. Our purpose is to scale positive impact to bring real and lasting change for the African ecosystem. To fulfil our purpose we are pursuing three innovation missions: Circular Economy; Inclusion; and Sustainable Lives. Each mission is a critical response to a generational societal challenge.

We have three complementary roles which are reflected by our services:

  • Venture Builder;
  • Innovation Partner; and
  • Systems Enabler. 

Black Umbrellas is an enterprise and supplier development (ESD) incubation organisation that partners with entrepreneurs, enterprises, investors and communities, to drive an inclusive and sustainable economic future by addressing the low levels of entrepreneurship and high failure rate of 100% black-owned emerging businesses in Africa.

Black Umbrellas focuses on developing qualifying businesses to a level where they can gain meaningful access to procurement, finance and networks and then facilitating access to these opportunities. While our programmes and platforms are available to any