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 

The South African Renewable Energy Business Incubator (SAREBI), was established in 2012 by the Small Enterprise Development Agency Technology programme (SEDA) to incubate businesses in the renewable energy sector.

Its mission is to help energy entrepreneurs in the renewable, clean, alternative energy and energy efficiency sectors to build scalable, profitable and sustainable businesses.

It assists businesses in various stages of development with support services ranging from operational support to enterprise skills training to manufacturing support to coaching.

Sarabi's enterprise skills

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

LCM Capital is an alternative investment company incorporated under Botswana Companies Act on 8 February 2017 with a primary focus on Investment, Risk and Governance. LCM Capital Four core business areas are Asset Management, Private Equity, Research and Analytics and Startup Advisory services and solutions to companies. As a homegrown business with an international outlook on the fund administration landscape, our mandate is to ensure that funds are managed appropriately with an outcome of robust risk adjusted returns, profitability and capital preservation. The company also strives to grow

beAfriBusiness is a development company foundered by a young South African entrepreneur, who develops projects in the Solar, Water and Agri Sector, beAfriBusiness develops projects in countries with high scarcity of water and arable land, farmers are encouraged to use solar energy and smart Agri technology to increase produce and productivity. Water is a critical input for agricultural production and plays an important role in food security. Due to population growth, urbanization, and climate change, competition for water resources is expected to increase, with a particular impact on

UW is a multi-stage investor that provides growth and replacement capital across the equity cycle. Its activities span from high-growth ventures to mid-market private equity.

UW derives its philosophy from its name – “Umkhathi Wethu” is isiZulu for “Our Universe”. We believe in investing in and managing companies for the long term alongside management, co-investors and our institutional investment partners.

UW engages in two main activities:

Venture Capital

  • We make early-stage and transformational investments in a wide variety of emerging companies with dynamic founding teams.
  • We

TriVest is a leading provider of equity for growth capital financings, middle market corporate acquisitions and recapitalizations. Since its founding, TriVest has experienced a huge demand for capital in the early stage sector in Southern Africa, where innovative early-stage and start-up companies often lack the financial, managerial and network resources for expansion and growth.

TriVest prefers to invest in quality small to medium sized companies, which possess or promise strong and defendable market positions in growing or fragmented industries. TriVest always co-invests with company

An easy to use digital platform that is a world first in many ways with features such as business and legal services by advisors, loyalty options for aspiring entrepreneurs with fresh ideas, growing business owners or businesses in need of a restructure.

Featuring an investment marketplace to load your ideas to attract investors with the assistance of our advisors to make it ”Finance Ready” to startup, scale an existing business or to facilitate a business exit.

Investment opportunities lined up perfectly with our existing investors or through one of our global partners, blended investment

Seed South Capital is an organization built for the times, today’s societal demands call for pragmatic solutions to address the widespread economic inequality. We cannot and should not admire the problem anymore.

We invest in early-stage companies, transforming these into B-BBEE compliant business enterprises, forging a new class of youthful entrepreneurs.

We take a hurried approach to patient investing. Solving inequality means building businesses, not simply buying and selling companies.

  • We support exceptional South African entrepreneurs who promote African indigeneity, culture, and