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Founders Factory Africa encompasses a unique bunch of creative builders, designers, entrepreneurs and mentors, who bring a wealth of knowledge and years of experience to those they work with.

The organisation has a heart for Africa, is proud to be a part of its complex and flourishing fabric, and is 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 start-ups, investors, governments, and corporations throughout Africa and beyond. 

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The 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 of taking your insight from idea to the marketplace by helping you to navigate the innovation process.

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

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

The FABlab Design and Technology Centre is an advanced manufacturing, prototyping and design lab in Namibia. 

Ngwana Africa is a pre-seed start-up accelerator and innovation hub that seeks to build Africa's economic skills capacity by training the continent's next generation of bold, innovative problem-solvers and software developers.

The organisation's headquarters are in Francistown, Botswana.

The Local Enterprise Authority (LEA) provides general business development services in accordance with Botswana's Small Business Act, as a contact place for aspiring and established entrepreneurs. 

Offerings: 

• Entrepreneurship promotion initiatives

• Business development kit (BDK)

• Training interventions 

• Business coaching 

• Business plan development 

• Incubation 

Launch Namibia is a motivational business magazine that promotes and celebrates entrepreneurs.

We connect small businesses with relevant markets through the Launch Start-Up Awards and highlight success stories of businesses in Namibia.

We are also a repository of information that can assist to propel businesses to ever greater heights, and we are striving to achieve economic growth.

One of our core missions is to ensure collaboration among start-up businesses, corporate organisations, government and municipal partners, and others, to support business growth and the creation of jobs.

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KMPDollar & associates provides a range of business development services. The focus is to provide services that add value to micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to enhance their competitiveness.

Target Market

• Start-up businesses
• Informal/semi-formal enterprises
• Small and medium enterprises
• Companies and parastatals

The Botswana-based Institute of Entrepreneurial Development (IED) helps aspiring and early-stage entrepreneurs to turn their business ideas into reality. It supports the development of business skills and knowledge and creates networking opportunities to catalyse the growth of the country’s start-up community.

IED and Venture Creation Labs provide training, investment and mentoring to aspiring entrepreneurs to diversify the economy through the launch of successful start-ups to create wealth and jobs. 

Hubspace is a co-working and shared office space facility where work space can be rented on a daily, weekly or monthly basis at very affordable rates. 

The company was one of the earliest serviced office and managed workplace providers, with its own buildings in prime locations in Greater London and the Home Counties comprising over 500,000 square feet of office and workplace solutions.

We specialise in prestigious luxury office space, with our focus being to provide an exceptional working environment where businesses can thrive and grow.

Facilities:

• Tailored and bespoke arrangements

GrindNation is a co-working space in Lesotho that offers the following facilities:

1. Office space where small businesses can flourish, while saving on overhead costs through the sharing of infrastructure.
2. A programme for young talent and new businesses.
3. Support structures by way of workshops, market exposure, educational resources, mentorship, and networking events.
4. An environment that promotes successful entrepreneurship.