Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities

Sandbox Africa Ventures is a unique VC platform designed to address the unique challenges faced by African tech startups in a global tech ecosystem. We approach VC differently. We aim to accelerate your time to market by fostering global partnerships and collaborations, providing access to capital, and facilitating access to APIs, data, intellectual property, licenses, and other vital resources.

At Sandbox Africa Ventures, we understand the unique challenges that African tech startups, particularly those led by black founders, face. Our team is composed of active entrepreneurs who have

CDI Capital is an impact investor in local SMMEs, empowering businesses to innovate, fast-track growth, create jobs, improve lives and help build a stronger economy. CDI works with corporates, government and development agencies to invest in individual businesses through our SMME development programmes, grants, loans and equity.

Offerings;

• Growth fund
• Design Innovation Seed Fund (DISF)

Life with Terry is a consulting company that focuses on Wellness, Life coaching,  Business coaching, Education and Business advisory services. 

Our goal is to help  our clients to:

• Create & live a fulfilled life;
• Create effectively & efficiently; and
• Embark on a life changing  journey of Self-discovery, Self-development & Self-healing.

Life with Terry was founded by Teresiah Malatji in 2020 and is a Level 1 B-BBEE and 100% black woman owned company. 

WORK EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

We have more than 15 years of work experience within the areas of  innovation and enterprise

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. 

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

GREENTECH INNOVATORS (Pty) LTD., a well-established water, environmental management, and scientific services consultancy based in South Africa, is a dedicated and innovative company. We provide Environmental Management Consulting Services in the areas of planning, environmental legal compliance, risk assessments, environmental impact assessments, project management, monitoring, auditing, mining permits, specialist studies (visual, wetlands delineation), social impact assessments, water-related services, conservation, rehabilitation, research, and science workshops. It is run by committed young

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

The Climate Innovation Centre South Africa (CICSA) provides business development support to start-ups in the South African green economy in collaboration with the World Bank’s InfoDev, and the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA)’s green fund. 

• Energy
• Water
• Waste

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