Our core commitment lies in fostering strong partnerships and community collaboration. We specialize in a range of services including digital media marketing, software solutions, e-sports leagues, business analytics, and online merchandise, catering to a diverse audience from startups to digital media aficionados. Our position as a digital media cooperative is central to our mission of driving digital transformation, particularly among the youth. We tackle challenges like limited access to co-working spaces and business development support head-on, offering comprehensive digital solutions. At

4IR Innovations delivers value through Industrial Automation solutions, tech-enabled innovative solutions and STEM education resources and programs. 

The Royal Growery is a multipurpose company that primarily focuses on agricultural innovation. Cannabis and vertical farming are two of its main areas of focus. The company has established a broad network in the agricultural community both within and outside of South Africa. As a new company, the company has amassed a very powerful network of individuals as well as powerful organizations. The Royal Growery's goal is to reshape Africa and intensively develop South Africa through various divisions to combat many of the issues that South Africa faces. 

The Women and Youth Agroecology Hub, recognized by the Department of Trade, Industry, and Competition, focuses on supporting the agricultural sector, particularly in maintaining internal control systems nationally. These systems ensure that farms adhere to organic certification standards and guarantee the traceability of exported products. The hub conducts regular visits and document checks to monitor smallholder farmers' activities, with internal inspections occurring monthly. Farmers are educated on their shared responsibility for maintaining organic integrity, with the WYAgroecology School

AdamVirgo Trading is a holding company that develops innovative new ideas and solutions mainly using technologies to build them into profitable subsidiaries to sell them off to potential investors and corporate businesses.

We are a tech-centered business working alongside partners to build a vibrant, robust innovation ecosystem in support of tech-driven businesses, a B2B2C business offering innovative solutions for businesses and social economics. 

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The Embassy of Ireland in South Africa in partnership with Wits University’s Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct, the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA), the Department of Science & Innovation (DSI) and Dogpatch Labs Ireland invite South African tech startups to apply for the Irish Tech Challenge South Africa 2024.

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We are a biotech company that works in the aquaculture healthcare sector, where we use biotechnology and proteomics to provide the industry with more granular biological insight into the health of farmed fish, allowing farming practices and nutrition to be optimized for improved animal welfare.

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.

Click here to apply for funding 

Yellow Beast is a research and development company based in South Africa. Yellow Beast is inspired by Sustainable Development Goals 2030. Current projects include Nosetsa, a cloud-based water management solution for farms and agribusinesses.