Agriculture, forestry and fishing

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

Agri Seed Capital is a Micro Finance Institution (MFI) that exists to address the problem of financial inclusion affecting subsistence and small-scale farmers.

The Agri Seed Capital three-year incubation programme aims to establish a pipeline of future finance-ready farmers. Our support services include:

• Access to markets
• Bookkeeping services
• Business Plans
• Credit facilities
• Risk mitigation strategies 
• Technical advisory

Criteria

• Farming on a full-time basis
• Have access to land
• Minimum 2-years of production history
• Youth farmers are encouraged to apply

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

Taking Care of Business (TCB) is a nonprofit social enterprise that equip aspiring entrepreneurs with the skills and resources they need to unlock their full potential and access the economy.

Programmes 

• Resell - Equipping unemployed mothers to become successful fashion traders within the circular economy.
• Repair - Equipping unemployed South Africans to run appliance repair and trading businesses, reducing e-waste.
• Remake - Equipping seamstresses to run financially viable businesses.
• Redistribute - Donating merchandise and clothing to nonprofits that support the vulnerable.
• Reskill -

A technology Commercialization and Innovation Ecosystem Development organization. 

An agricultural retail shop that sells agricultural goods and services to rural farmers to promote sustainable,smart and green farming. 

3 Years of innovation design and commercial solar modeling delivered a seasonal tracker that enhance solar system efficiency by 25% in our medium to large agricultural business target market. We are the the only scaled manual tracker (2 x seasonal settings) that we know of. Our design integrates with latest bifacial panel technology that require higher installation to absorb reflective light. We have excellent thin steel manufacturing skills to manufacture the tracker. Solar panel producers rejoice at achieving 2.5% better efficiencies, 25 percent is game changing to result in a below 5 year