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Black Umbrellas is an enterprise and supplier development (ESD) incubation organisation that partners with entrepreneurs, enterprises, investors and communities, to drive an inclusive and sustainable economic future by addressing the low levels of entrepreneurship and high failure rate of 100% black-owned emerging businesses in Africa.

Black Umbrellas focuses on developing qualifying businesses to a level where they can gain meaningful access to procurement, finance and networks and then facilitating access to these opportunities. While our programmes and platforms are available to any

Maestronet is a BEE company that specializes in IT and mobile technologies. The focal point of our company is to provide our clients with quality information technology consulting, services and outsourcing companies applying practical innovation through services and solutions that deliver tangible results for both commercial and government clients. Our primary mandate is to position businesses to be competitive in the age of technology. Having been working with multiple automation technologies for several years in building complex systems makes our company an ideal partner in developing and

Established in 2012, Khepri is an award-winning bioconversion company based in South Africa.

Khepri Biosciences was born out of the need to address the environmental effects of eutrophication of river systems caused by agricultural runoff. This pollution threatens the purity of our water systems in South Africa – a country with limited water resources.

MSN Bison is a small-scale manufacturer that specializes in designing technologically fused furniture.  We design furniture that hides your electronic devices within the furniture giving your home/office a futuristic look and plenty of space while also hiding your valuable electronics from theft and unforeseen damages.

Biotikum (Pty) Ltd is a proudly South African spinout company of the University of Stellenbosch which was founded in 2020.  Biotikum develops and produces microbial additives for the agricultural industry, including host-specific animal probiotics, microbial silage inoculants, and soil inoculants.  The use of microbial additives is an environmentally friendly means to promote sustainable farming practices and improves profitability.  In the future, Biotikum aims to provide large-scale microbial production services to various industries in Africa.

darkblue is an ICT company that offers telecommunication technology.

Farming and Agroprocessing

Hlabolohang Foundation it’s a non-profit organisation that consists of a group of young men and women combating the stigmatisation towards mental health issues in our community households.  We provide counselling to young and old people on different aspects of life that causes decay in our daily lives such as; depression and anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), teenage pregnancy and teenage suicide. We work with the South African Depression and Anxiety Group (SADAG) to facilitates and coordinates our community and schools outreach programs.

We are an organization that value the

Harvesters of Ideas, Creators of Legacies.

Areas of Focus

1. Municipal Digital Transformation

2. Digital Competencies' Development

3. Afrocentric Digital Economy Research - InnovArt Platform

We improve families’ lives in the SADC regions through sustainable agriculture centred around the practice of permaculture.

Ukuvuna focuses on six basic programs for the community and at its training centre; 

• Food Security

• Biodiversity Restoration

• Traditional Seeds Restoration

• Enterprise and Infrastructural Development

• Health and Wellbeing

• Research and Material Development

PhathuR Holdings is a 100% youth-owned company that was registered in the year 2020 by two entrepreneurs who were impacted by the unprecedented covid-19. The founder’s members are from previously disadvantaged communities. The company was started mainly to create job opportunities for the communities thus reducing crime and the rate of unemployment in South Africa. The business also exists to uplift the standard of living of the communities and provinces. We work as a team to produce solutions that create opportunities for other entrepreneurs as well as community members. PhathuR Holdings

HYBR is a pan African innovation firm and growth platform for impact scale-ups. Our purpose is to scale positive impact to bring real and lasting change for the African ecosystem. To fulfil our purpose we are pursuing three innovation missions: Circular Economy; Inclusion; and Sustainable Lives. Each mission is a critical response to a generational societal challenge.

We have three complementary roles which are reflected by our services:

• Venture Builder;
• Innovation Partner; and
• Systems Enabler. 

Agrikool is a 100% Black, youth-owned Agritech startup based in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. We provide access to market for farmers with a focus on small-scale and emerging farmers. 



"Market access" to us is more than just connecting a farmer to a buyer. We also provide logistical support, assist the farmer to negotiate fair prices and conduct quality assurance through agronomic support to ensure that the farmer's products fetch the highest price. 

Supplying fresh fruits and vegetables. 

We consult on business development for emerging enterprises and entrepreneurs in agribusiness in South and Southern Africa

Desert Green is an Agritech startup building Mobile Technology solutions to enable small scale farmers and informal traders to access a more efficient marketplace with shared logistics services.

We provide data-driven & environmentally-friendly solutions from Seed to Market, through our connected products GreenFarm; GreenKart & GreenKash for the small-scale farmer & Informal trader value chain in Africa