Available Ecosystem Support

Akro is a company dedicated to helping entrepreneurs turn ideas into businesses.

It offers events, venture funding and consulting services, and it has a practical approach to entrepreneurship.

The team members have their own businesses and understand the challenges facing entrepreneurs and start

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.

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The Hub at Morija, in Lesotho, is a creative technology lab that provides affordable access to computers, the internet, a library, and digital media training.

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

Satoshicentre is a lab for learning new developments in the bitcoin space, including both second layer technologies. Its headquarters are in Gaborone, Botswana. 

The lab aims to: 

• Mentor and train potential businesses and members of the fintech and blockchain community.
• Build an African

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)

• Trai

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

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

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

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

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