Professional, scientific and technical activities

Impact Amplifier is a South African based advisory firm focused on accelerating and investing in social and environmental innovation on the African continent.  It delivers acceleration services directly as well as through its unique white-labelled online platform, Impact OS, for other incubators and accelerators to use.

Impact Amplifier believes in:

• Impact Intra and Entrepreneurs
• Social and Ecological Justice
• Big Risks
• Building Ecosystems
• Meritocracies
• Becoming Our Best Selves

Impact Amplifiers Services.

• Accelerating Social Enterprises - Impact Amplifier offers a range of

Ignitor is an enterprise support programme that engages with South Africa's best entrepreneurs, inventors, scientists and artists and supports them to create and scale their innovations. 

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.

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

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.

LaunchLab is an initiative of Innovus, situated in the centre of Stellenbosch University’s campus. LaunchLab focuses on developing both the entrepreneur as well as the business.  It functions as a business accelerator and boosts entrepreneurship on campus by providing networking opportunities, mentoring and affordable rental rates in an entrepreneur-friendly environment. The business accelerator is open to external start-up companies who would like to benefit from the entrepreneurial services on offer, as well as internal or external service providers who are able to provide mentoring, support

Founders Factory Africa encompasses a unique bunch of creative builders, designers, entrepreneurs and mentors, who bring a wealth of knowledge and years of experience to those they work with.

The organisation has a heart for Africa, is proud to be a part of its complex and flourishing fabric, and is humbled by its history of individual and collective progress.

Locally grounded and globally connected, Founders Factory Africa is becoming the go-to innovation partner for start-ups, investors, governments, and corporations throughout Africa and beyond. 

Founders Factory Africa investment

The Namibia Business Innovation Institute (NBII) formerly known as Namibia Business Innovation Centre (NBIC) is a national leader in research, entrepreneurship and innovation. NBII develops ways of taking your insight from idea to the marketplace by helping you to navigate the innovation process.

NBII operates through the four pillars of: Innovation Marketplace (I’M), Entrepreneurship and Incubation (E&I), Research and Development (R&D), and the RLabs Namibia project.

The NBII proactively stimulates and supports innovation, entrepreneurship and social upliftment through exploring

Ngwana Africa is a pre-seed start-up accelerator and innovation hub that seeks to build Africa's economic skills capacity by training the continent's next generation of bold, innovative problem-solvers and software developers.

The organisation's headquarters are in Francistown, Botswana.