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Agricen Farming Services cc

It's a newly established legal entity that aims to produce vegetables, Marketing and management of agricultural commodities like grains vegetables and small stock.

Open Innovation Projects Making Use of University Research

Open innovation refers to the business model that encourages collaboration and cooperation with individuals outside of a company, as well as other companies and organisations. This concept has become increasingly popular, as the results of this approach have been more effective than those achieved...

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Deep Tech Start-Ups: The Development of a Life Cycle Model

Deep tech, also known as hard technology, is defined as being a start-up that has the goal of providing technological solutions to scientific and/or engineering obstacles and problems. In the long term, deep tech start-ups tend to aim toward being a corporation themselves; however, in order to...

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How Cooperation Between Start-Ups and SMEs Can Increase Innovation

Cooperation has always been a complimenting factor to innovation. People and ideas feed off of one another, allowing innovation to take place on a shorter timescale. The perfect combination might exist between SMEs (Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises) and start-ups.

Why SMEs and Start-Ups...
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Global Innovation Index 2021: Innovation Investments Are Resilient Amid COVID-19

The World Intellectual Property Management Organisation (WIPO) in partnership with the Portulans Institute, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the Brazilian National Confederation of Industry (CNI), Ecopetrol (Colombia), and the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TİM) published the 14th edition of...

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BCX Releases Its Maiden Digital Innovation Report 2022

The newly launched report delves into the digital innovation landscape as well as how globally, digital innovation has been accelerated due the COVID-19 pandemic. In the report, BCX CEO, Jonas Bogoshi was cited saying that “during the pandemic, digital innovation became a matter of survival...

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Venture Partners Botswana

Venture Partners Botswana (VPB) is a professional private equity fund management company established in 2002 in Gaborone, Botswana. The firm focuses on growth capital investments in the Southern Africa region and firm targets a range of industries, including financial services, communications, and consumer products. The Private Equit(PE) fund management firm specialises in health care funding and also goes by Temo Capital.

Secha Capital

Secha Capital is a patient capital holding company that invests in African SMEs looking to grow. We focus primarily on FMCG, Agri-business, healthcare, light manufacturing and business enabling sectors and work alongside founders to reach full potential.

Secha Capital is an early-stage impact private equity firm focused on Africa. Its Operator-Investor model gives small, growing businesses (SGBs) a unique advantage to solve the “missing middle” and “management gap”. This “growth and human capital” strategy creates long-term, replicable social and financial returns. Secha raised a $5M first

Subtropico

Subtropico Limited is a public investment holding company with a focus on the agricultural services sector and related value chains.

We acquire meaningful interests in companies with the potential to generate strong cash returns and growth.

As a well-established and respected investment holding company, our strategy is guided by our vision for the future of the South African market. Subtropico’s investments are highly diversified, yet we keep a strong focus on investing in future-proof industries.

Food is and always will be a fundamental need, and the strong growth of the South African

Basotho Enterprise Development Corporation (BEDCO)

BEDCO is a parastatal of the Government of Lesotho, with a mandate to support entrepreneurial capacity building programmes, startup incubation, business advisory and technical training as well as develop Basotho enterprises by assisting in their establishment, promotion and growth. 

Key priority areas under the strategic plan include enterprise development; financial sustainability, stakeholder collaborations' organisational effectiveness; and human capital development.Under enterprise development; BEDCO develops and implements entrepreneurship programmes in the priority sectors namely

Arigo Investments Africa

Arigo Investments Africa is an advisory and diversified investments company. Our services are geared toward start-ups, strategic-growth and high-potential companies in Sub-Sahara Africa across a myriad of industry verticals.

Our investments are driven by entrepreneurial passion to solve societal challenges. We pioneer new ventures and invest in founders and their businesses, preferring active participation in growing the operations we partner in. We are expanding our base of diversified investments into larger listed and unlisted corporates in Africa.

 

Our current portfolio consists of

Vintage Capital

VINTAGE CAPITAL is an investment holding firm that implements a diversified investment strategy with interest in various sectors.

VINTAGE CAPITAL is based in Johannesburg, South Africa, and has partners in major global capital markets including Europe, Asia and North America. The company also conducts advisory work including, investment due diligence, capital raising, balance sheet restructuring, and mergers and acquisitions.

We are a sector agnostic company but have a bias towards Energy, Information Communication and Technology (ICT), Financial Services, and Agriculture.

VINTAGE CAPITAL

Enygma Ventures

Enygma Ventures is an investment fund for female entrepreneurs and women founders, focused on Southern Africa.

Enygma Ventures is a unique purpose driven investment fund, led by award winning entrepreneurs with 40 years of combined experience growing and scaling businesses in Africa, US & Europe. We understand the struggles and challenges of building big businesses, having built big businesses ourselves. We wholeheartedly believe in win/win scenarios for the investor and entrepreneur and therefore have the ability to create flexible financial solutions with efficient & strategic deployment of

Paean Capital

Paean Capital is a specialised independent, majority empowered, financial services group, focusing on corporate finance advisory and private equity. Its mission is the creation of clients' and partners' wealth. "Paean" is "a song in praise" of corporate finance advisory and private equity.

Paean Capital comprises:

Paean Advisors, a corporate finance advisory boutique, and Paean Private Equity, a private equity fund manager, focused on investing in market leading businesses, working with management teams and realising value within its portfolio companies.

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Umelusi Capital

Umelusi Capital collaborates with visionary, courageous change makers to bring new capital to the new economy through business consulting, corporate advisory, wealth creation, wealth management and wealth protection.

.The company was established in 2007 as a boutique financial services firm as Piety Corporation to then transform to a Strategic Corporate & Transaction Advisory Solutions Firm now known as Umelusi Capital.

UMELUSI CAPITAL is 

- A high value adds Strategic Advisory Boutique Firm 

- Offering a full suite of advisory and capital raising services 

- A multi-sector, multi-skilled

Botswana Insurance Fund Management

Botswana Insurance Fund Management (BIFM) Limited is an  asset management service and provider that provides investment management solutions to institutional and individual clients.

BIFM has historically and continues to look outside of traditional asset classes in order to enhance value provided to our clients. This has been influenced by the shortage of listed investable instruments in Botswana. 

We invested in shopping malls when Botswana had no malls, in the country’s first five-star commercial office park and the Public Private Partnership (PPP) to add onto the many milestone firsts.

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