StartUp School is a free online program and a global community of founders. Founded by some of South Africa’s most successful entrepreneurs and supported by Investec, a leading private specialist bank, Startup School strives to unlock entrepreneurial potential in South Africa and beyond.

StartUp School online entrepreneurship courses have been carefully designed by a strong and experienced team of educational, business and coaching specialists.

Entrepreneurship Development Programme. 

This focuses on the following:

  • Entrepreneurship course outline:
  • Staring a Business
  • Scaling your

Seed Engine is a business accelerator. 3 times a year, Seed engine invests in the top 10 business ideas and entrepreneurs and brings them in to join their stable of ventures. When they exit the 13-week program, the entrepreneurs transform into leaders and their ideas become Investable Businesses. During the programme, they are given coaching, mentorship and seed capital to get their kick-ass ventures off the ground. Seed Engine is a combination of a mini MBA, reality TV Show, business bootcamp and a whole lot of magic that nobody has seen before.

Seed Engine Core Programmes;  

  • AccelerateHe

The Business Place aims to promote entrepreneurship and the creation of sustainable businesses. The Business Place model is unique in that it is strategically developed to address the needs of the Local Economy and Business Environment. It brings together many of the diverse local stakeholders representing all tiers of government, community and corporate organisations which are committed to the common vision of building an Entrepreneurial Society.

The Business Place is a friendly, accessible, walk-in environment where aspiring and existing entrepreneurs can go to access information and

The Timbali Technology Incubator aims to spring board start-up entrepreneurs by addressing key constraints through an innovative incubation model. The Timbali Technology Incubator was established in 2003 in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga with the specific aim of spring boarding start-up entrepreneurs into the mainstream economy by addressing some of their key constraints through an innovative incubation model.

Timbali found a way to connect low skilled, young, inexperienced, unemployed rural people, (75% women), to sophisticated markets by means of our incubation product supply chain and enabling

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

The Gauteng Enterprise Propeller (GEP) promotes, fosters and develops small enterprises in Gauteng thereby implementing the policy of the Gauteng Provincial Government for small enterprise development.

GEP's mandate is to promote entrepreneurship, mobilise resources and facilitate an integrated approach to entrepreneurial development and support within the Province; Provide financial and business development support for the growth and sustainability of small enterprises; Facilitate investment in high-impact business enterprises that transform the structure and competitiveness of industrial

Founders Factory Africa is a unique bunch of creative builders, designers, entrepreneurs and mentors, who bring a wealth of knowledge and years of experience to the founders and teams we work with. Founders Factory has a heart for Africa and is proud to be a part of its complex and flourishing fabric, and they are 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 startups, investors, governments, and corporates — throughout Africa and beyond. 

Founders Factory Africa

AlphaCode is a club for financial services entrepreneurs, which is supported by a physical workspace and a virtual platform. Alpha Code is seeking to create a next-generation financial services eco-system by bringing together entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, industry experts and thought leaders to connect, share knowledge, and ultimately reshape the financial services industry. Powered by Rand Merchant Investment Holdings (RMI) and Rand Merchant Bank Holdings (RMBH); strategic managers of a multi-billion dollar financial services portfolio which includes FirstRand, Discovery, OUTsurance, MMI

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 in getting your insight from idea to the marketplace by helping you to navigate the innovation process.

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

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

StartUp Namibia is a non-profit organisation which aims to improve the conditions for the establishment and growth of startups in selected regions in Namibia. The goal is to create new opportunities for jobs in the startup sector and build a vibrant ecosystem across the country enabling new ventures to grow and flourish.

StartUp Namibia offerings: 

  • Basecamp is the StartUp Incubation and Innovation Centre of the StartUp Namibia project. Basecamp aims to build a thriving Namibian StartUp ecosstem where new, innovative ideas flourish and grow into sustainable businesses.
  • Digital