OneBio is a Cape Town-based biotech early-stage investor and venture builder, turning life sciences into business. It is our mission to build businesses that are original and world changing. We partner with biotech entrepreneurs, providing investment capital and know-how to venture-build companies of the future.

We ideate with them, helping them define and redefine the problem they are solving. We support them along the journey, venture-building alongside them. We get our ‘hands dirty’, and provide expertise, networks, and grant and equity funding; helping them to realise their dreams.

Among

BarloWorld Siyakhula is the supplier and enterprise development arm of Barloworld Limited responsible for promoting transformation, Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment and supplier diversity within the group's value chain.

BarloWorld Siyakhula creates opportunities for small and medium-sized businesses, along with shared value for our shareholders. They provide financial and non-financial support to SMMEs, helping them to become sustainable and competitive in the marketplace.

WADER promotes the early adoption of promising technologies and accelerates innovation in the water sector by showcasing technologies that have gone through a credible assessment process.

Through a series of open calls for water technologies that are in the emerging, pre-commercial or newly commercialised stages of diffusion, innovative water and sanitation technologies will be identified, evaluated and showcased to interested parties like municipalities and industries.

WADER looks at highly innovative technologies that practice in the following categories:

  • Water-related alternative

Business France’s mandate is to help foster business relations between France and the countries in which the agency operates.

For example, Business France South Africa helps French companies find partners and clients in South Africa and neighbouring countries, and helps South African companies invest in France.

A public/private entity or entrepreneur looking to invest in France to partner with a French company or to acquire French technology is encouraged to get in touch with Business France’s South African office for advice and assistance.

Business France is responsible for fostering

Eco-Connect is geared toward creating awareness among grassroots entrepreneurs of the dire need to conserve environmental resources and to provide them with turnkey eco-businesses, such as waterless car wash, waste collection, recycling electronic equipment, and electric freight service.

The eight-month programme has a two-pronged approach to developing both the entrepreneur and his business and includes personal development, business feasibility, marketing, sales, finance, technology, quality and business functions.

Programme offerings: 

· Personal development
· Leadership development
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FETOLA co-creates and deliver impactful Enterprise and Supplier Development solutions that build sustainable businesses and create jobs nationwide.

Their solutions go beyond the Scorecard and Enterprise and Supplier Development to provide a full suite of tailored project management, strategic advice, capacity building and SME incubator support services. 

Offerings 

The Fetola: Mentor Hotline - an exclusive pilot programme that gives entrepreneurs access to free virtual business advice. Our aim is to support businesses by giving them targeted, rapid-response access to business-specific

Grabouw Based operation.   We use the dual thrust of Hydro Power and Industrial Hemp to bring Economic opportunity to the greater population of the Grabouw Valley

With the Plentiful river structure and a large number of dams, we are working with the Large Scale Apple Farmers and Fruit juice producers to identify and develop a local electricity grid, the benefits of this are twofold: Dependable low-cost electricity and significant improvement in Grabouw Carbon Footprint.

Industrial hemp has multiple benefits. Firstly drawdown,  with a drawdown rate of approximately 20 tons of toxic gas per

SEED was founded at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg by UN Environment, UNDP and IUCN as a global partnership for action on sustainable development and the green economy. SEED is based on the understanding that the promotion of social and environmental entrepreneurship is pivotal for environmentally friendly and socially inclusive development and poverty reduction.

SEED works with growing enterprises and aspiring entrepreneurs in its Enterprise Support programmes to strategise, optimise and award achievements in eco-inclusive entrepreneurship.

SEED offerings 

Angel Network Botswana (ANB) is a network of business angels seeking to invest their personal funds in growth-oriented start-up businesses with exciting products and services. They are experienced in investing, leading due diligence, structuring investments, and mentoring entrepreneurs.

They form an extensive peer network of domain expertise and contacts for subsequent funding, talent and technology. We give the entrepreneurs we invest in access to networks and mentorship with the aim of building a sustainable business ecosystem.

Our members come from different industries and backgrounds

Process Energy and Environmental Technology Station (PEETS) is located at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) Mapulong Building, Doornfontein Campus. The primary mandate of the UJ-PEETS is to contribute toward improving the competitiveness of Industry in the green economy through the application of specialized knowledge and technology transfer. UJ-PEETS facilitate the interaction between academia, industry (especially SMEs) and government. To achieve our mission, UJ-PEETS supports various capacity building and policy influencing initiatives to grow the green economy, while providing