Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding

Imvelo Ventures is a black-owned and black managed VC fund that invests to fast-track the ambitions of South African entrepreneurs.

Offerings; 

• Long term patient capital with no predefined exit horizon
• Business building support
• Access to extensive business networks
• Strictly minority investments
• Board participation by experienced directors
• No fees are charged to the investees
• Strong BEE credentials
• Business competitive strategy and strategic marketing inputs
• Financial, structuring and general business planning advice
• Active, hands-on management support if required

Far Ventures is a Cape Town-based start-up studio which builds start-ups from scratch, along with outstanding entrepreneurs.

Our expertise is in creating start-ups, investing the first capital, and recruiting talented entrepreneurs to scale the business and prepare it for its first external fundraising round.

Startupbootcamp AfriTech is an accelerator for start-ups, supporting and scaling innovative and disruptive technology companies across the African continent. 

Its office is located in the old Foundry in Green Point, Cape Town, at Ideas Cartel, which operates under Inner City Ideas Cartel.

Startupbootcamp AfriTech is currently running the ASIP Accelerator Program, which is anchored by corporate sponsor Telecel Group.

Telecel aims to support the next generation of early-stage African tech start-ups disrupting key industry verticals, including FinTech, InsureTech, AgriTech, eCommerce, Digital

Chaperone is a technological company and issuer of electronic payment instruments, through its platforms. It enables individuals and small businesses (retail customers) to transact, earn and borrow money. We seek to solve the problem of economic exclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa by ensuring that our ecosystems are financially inclusive with access to market/customers.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution Incubator (4IRI) is a registered non-profit organisation. The 4IRI was established through funding from SEDA as a response to assist and enable small businesses to participate meaningfully in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. This is an initiative that further aims to inspire young South African entrepreneurs to develop into successful leaders of industry. We are looking to assist these budding inventors and entrepreneurs to develop their ideas into business concepts, prototypes, and possibly into a fully-fledged business.

PrepaidWealth.com is a FinTech platform that provides 80% of the margins made by retailers, on data bundles and airtime, back to the consumer as discounts or as accumulated cash. The platform also provides a way for a group of people to accumulate the margins together, while they are spending their data bundles and airtime discretely. This makes the platform powerful for passively fundraising without members of a group directly contributing money. Groups such as stokvels, schools, churches, residential complexes, work departments, friends, families, etc. can use the platform for fundraising