Entrepreneurs

Welcome to our community of entrepreneurs, consisting of SMMEs in different stages of their entrepreneur journey. Among them you’ll find SMMEs offering products or services, and looking for investment or scaling opportunities in the region. Representing entrepreneurs across Africa, but particularly Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa, select a profile to find out more about an entrepreneur, their work, and to communicate directly with them.

Agrikool

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

Biotikum

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.

Khepri Biosciences

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

Nambu Group

The Nambu Group is a producer of insect proteins that offers premium ingredients for fish, pigs, and poultry feed. Creating feed from food waste would close the food production cycle.

Our facility is currently scaling up to process up to 100 tons of food and organic waste per month producing about

Not really where you want to be?

Not to worry, as most journeys are seldom in a straight line from start to finish. You might find more suitable partners in our other communities on the portal. Check out our ‘entrepreneur’ or ‘innovator’ sections for more information.

Innovator

Are you an innovator?

You don’t want to start your own enterprise, but have a passion for creating new knowledge, processes, products, or models. You’re probably a researcher that wants others to benefit from your unique intellectual property and, looking to license or further develop your innovation.

Investor

Are you an Investor?

You want to support the creation of socio-economic wealth by investing monetary and non-monetary resources into services, enterprises and products. If so, start here:

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