FAQs

The Innovation Bridge Digital Community seeks to be a not-for-profit open innovation platform that brings entrepreneurship ecosystem stakeholders together for the benefit of innovators and entrepreneurs.

The Innovation Bridge Portal's main goal is to connect innovators and entrepreneurs, with the appropriate ecosystem supports, financial institutions, and financial solutions that suit their needs. We are not a funder. Along with matchmaking, the Innovation Bridge Portal also hosts ecosystem projects that offer both financial and non-financial support.

Depending on your offerings and role within the ecosystem, you can register as an entrepreneur, innovator, investor, or ecosystem supporter.

• Click on register,
• Select entrepreneur
• Create a username and provide your email address.
• Login to your email and find the email from the Innovation Bridge Portal. Open the email and click the first link.
• Create a new password.
• Complete details for your user profile and accept the terms of use.
• Indicate your business stage i.e ideation, startup or scale up.
• If you selected startup or scale-up, you’ll be required to provide your business information. i.e name, overview, industry, etc.

• Click on register,
• Select innovator
• Create a username and provide your email address.
• Login to your email and find the email from the Innovation Bridge Portal. Open the email and click the first link.
• Create a new password.
• Complete details for your user profile and accept the terms of use.
• Indicate your representation i.e individual or organisation
• If you select organisation you will be required to add or select an existing organisation.

• Click on register,
• Select investor
• Create a username and provide your email address.
• Login to your email and find the email from the Innovation Bridge Portal. Open the email and click the first link.
• Create a new password.
• Complete details for your user profile and accept the terms of use.
• Indicate your representation i.e individual or organisation
• If you select organisation you will be required to add or select an existing organisation.
• If you select to add a new organisation or individual you’ll be required to provide investment information, i.e type of investor, preferred investment stage etc.

• Click on register,
• Select ecosystem supporter
• Create a username and provide your email address.
• Login to your email and find the email from the Innovation Bridge Portal. Open the email and click the first link.
• Create a new password.
• Complete details for your user profile and accept the terms of use.
• Indicate your representation i.e individual or organisation
• If you select organisation you will be required to add or select an existing organisation.
• If you select to add a new organisation or individual you’ll be required to provide ecosystem support, i.e support offerings, target market, industry etc.

• An entrepreneur will be able to add the products they offer.
• An innovator can add their innovations
• An investor can add an investment/funding opportunity or event.
• An ecosystem system supporter can add an opportunity or event

When content is added it will go through a content curation process. The Portal Curator will check your content and if there are no changes, the content will be published. If changes are required, the content will be sent back to your drafts for you to edit, before it is published by the Curator. The Curator will endeavour to have the content published within 24 hours of submission.

Yes. When you wish to edit published content, you can create a new draft of your content under "My Content" in your user dashboard. When editing published content, the content will go through the curation process again before being published. The original published content will remain published until the edits are approved by the Curator.