African Emerging Ventures provides venture and development capital to projects addressing food and energy security in the SADC region.

African Emerging Ventures (AEV) is an investment company based in the Seychelles. AEV is actively investing, through its first fund, in innovative and highly skilled entrepreneurs and management teams based in Botswana.

AEV has established a unique project development and incubation platform focusing on technology driven businesses and technology transfer opportunities. AEV provides venture capital and project development support to primarily, green-field

Yellow Beast (Pty) Ltd is a sustainable development goals focused company that develops and commercializes startups in a variety of areas including cleantech. 

One such startup is Nosetsa, a digital brain that integrates with existing irrigation equipment to give Internet of Things devices autonomy that eliminates worker dependency to save water, ensure accurate plant hydration and conserves resources.

The bigger goal of the company is to create value and impact across multiple disciplines using technology.

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.

Smartfill is a socially conscious smart retail solution for the modern retail environment; a sleek IoT dispenser that revolutionises retail.

The Smartfill IoT dispenser reduces the need for single use plastic packaging delivering a variety of food and cleaning products, streamlining the logistics process, and providing increased margins for retail store owners. All while reducing the impact of single use plastics on the environment.

A digital interface and built-in sensors allow customers to choose the exact amount of produce they would like dispensed by value or by weight. Seeing that there

DROPSIGHT (Pty) Ltd is a new start up company, wherein a proof of concept was developed to the point where a special UV Tracer spray deposition analysis can be performed on natural surfaces using a smartphone and the newly developed application, DROPSIGHT, in conjunction with a specially designed portable photographing laboratory, LEAFLAB.

This is the first ever tool that can be made available to all farmers, chemical companies and researchers to do in field analysis of the efficiency of chemical spray deposition onto natural plant targets, benchmarking it with the required biological control

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

eLEAF is a high-tech remote sensing company that provides satellite-based data and services for the agricultural, water management and crop index insurance domains. Our product offering is targeted at the entire agri-business value chain ranging from farmers to food processors as well as non-profit organizations, public institutions and governments.

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