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Impact Amplifier is a South African based advisory firm focused on accelerating and investing in social and environmental innovation on the African continent.  It delivers acceleration services directly as well as through its unique white-labelled online platform, Impact OS, for other incubators and accelerators to use.

Impact Amplifier believes in:

• Impact Intra and Entrepreneurs
• Social and Ecological Justice
• Big Risks
• Building Ecosystems
• Meritocracies
• Becoming Our Best Selves

Impact Amplifiers Services.

• Accelerating Social Enterprises - Impact Amplifier offers a range of

OceanHub Africa is an ocean-impact catalyst with the mission to connect, inspire and support entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, businesses and other stakeholders to accelerate the development and adoption of new sustainable ocean solutions across Africa.

What we do

Acceleration programme

Personal, product and business development for start-up market and investor readiness. Applications are now open!

Consulting

Support for the development of policies for the local blue economy in African countries.

Ecosystem development support

Through our multiple ecosystem programmes, such as Ocean

Cape Town Office is a co-working community that takes pride in its large dedicated desks, high-speed fibre internet and bottomless supply of coffee - a good combination to power tech entrepreneurs.

Inner City Ideas Cartel is a multi-use facility that helps founders and funders to operate in a productive environment by providing access to exclusive spaces, luxurious co-working locations, indulgent places to stay in - and free access to events to learn, enjoy, recharge and connect.

The Bureax offers serviced co-working space for corporate satellite team members and freelancers in Cape Town South Africa.

The Workspace provides affordable, premium, serviced office and co-working space solutions in South Africa.

Workshop 17 is a co-working space with seven locations in Gauteng and the Western Cape in South Africa, creating a hub for innovation and entrepreneurship.

Chemin is a not-for-profit South African chemical technology incubator and business incubator.

It falls under the Small Enterprise Development Agency’s incubation programme, which is dedicated to supporting the growth of very early-stage technology-based businesses in the South African chemical sector.

Chemin provides clients with an exceptional entrepreneurial business environment that promotes collaboration and innovation and encourages ingenuity as well as the creation of wealth.

Chemin's offerings

Incubation services

• Low Technology Incubation Model
• High Technology Incubation

Garden Route ITC Incubator offers a wide range of incubation services to support local innovative ICT entrepreneurs with a safe and subsidised environment from which to launch products and build their businesses.

The headquarters of the organisation are in Gauteng, South Africa. 

Lepharo is an accredited provider that specialises in the development of manufacturing, engineering and small business development skills.

It strives to find business opportunities for the incubatees, through marketing, ensuring that they comply with the requirements of big companies, and get sustainable jobs for them.

Maxum Business Incubators

Maxum Smart provides business development support to start-ups in the smart industries, such as ICT: internet of things, cyber security, big data and analytics, and artificial intelligence; and advanced manufacturing/industry 4.0: industrial IoT, additive manufacturing, and foundry.

Focus Areas:

• ICT
• Advanced manufacturing

Business incubation service offerings are geared towards enabling, growing and fostering start-ups that will create jobs, commercialise innovative technologies and improve competitiveness for Gauteng province, South Africa. 

The Innovation

Seda Construction Incubator (SCI) is a public benefit organisation mandated to develop and mentor emerging construction companies in South Africa. 

The Durban Innovation Hub is a technology incubator and business advisory firm that seeks to promote a vibrant and collaborative ecosystem by connecting public and private enterprises with gifted African inventors, creative business technologists, data analysts and behavioural scientists.

It is a civic technology lab creating a community of technology entrepreneurs by providing an enabling environment and equipping them with functional tools to make their ideas work.

Services:

• Product and service design
• Research and testing
• Hackathons, sprints and co-creation
• Testing and usability

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.

Silicon Cape is an NPO and an ecosystem enabler for tech-enabled startups in the broader Cape Region of South Africa. We work to connect stakeholders, curate ecosystem data, amplify the stories coming out of the ecosystem and advocate on behalf of stakeholders through our membership programme.

The CDI is a craft and design sector development agency with a mission to develop capable people and build responsible creative enterprises trading within local and international markets.

The CDI is a non-profit company with over 20 years of success in developing creative people, small businesses and the craft and design sector at large in South Africa. The CDI is a catalytic agent of change in the sector, and passionate about developing appropriately skilled, resourced and digitally proficient practitioners who can successfully leverage opportunities for growth and development.

The CDI