Professional, scientific and technical activities

AdamVirgo

AdamVirgo Trading is a holding company that develops innovative new ideas and solutions mainly using technologies to build them into profitable subsidiaries to sell them off to potential investors and corporate businesses.

We are a tech-centered business working alongside partners to build a vibrant, robust innovation ecosystem in support of tech-driven businesses, a B2B2C business offering innovative solutions for businesses and social economics.

The State of Innovative Finance in South Africa

African Venture Philanthropy Alliance (AVPA), in collaboration with the First Rand Empowerment Fund (FREF) and Deloitte, has undertaken a comprehensive study to understand the current state of Innovative Finance in South Africa. This research maps out South Africa's current Innovative Finance...

Event end date

Fri, 09/01/2023 - 12:00

She Wins Africa

Overview of your opportunity

Applications are now open for the first cohort of She Wins Africa. She Wins Africa is a program designed to assist women entrepreneurs across sub–Saharan Africa by offering training, mentorship and networking opportunities that will help their startups succeed.

She Wins Africa aims to address these challenges and improve opportunities for women-led startups to access financing.

The program will:

Irish Tech Challenge South Africa 2024

Overview of your opportunity

The Embassy of Ireland in South Africa in partnership with Wits University’s Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct, the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA), the Department of Science & Innovation (DSI) and Dogpatch Labs Ireland invite South African tech startups to apply for the Irish Tech Challenge South Africa 2024.

Closing date

Friday, April 26, 2024 - 12:00

MariHealth Solutions

We are a biotech company that works in the aquaculture healthcare sector, where we use biotechnology and proteomics to provide the industry with more granular biological insight into the health of farmed fish, allowing farming practices and nutrition to be optimized for improved animal welfare.

Raizcorp

Raizcorp support and scales entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial ecosystem as well as accelerate the success of entrepreneurs.

Offerings:

Pre-incubation programmes
Incubation programmes
Acceleration programmes
Equity partnerships

Entrepreneurial Benefits:

Training
Guiding (mentoring)
Market access
Access to finance
Access to infrastructure
Entrepreneurial essentials
Equity investment

Raizcorp Arize Business Development Programme

Overview of your opportunity

Raizcorp looking for entrepreneurs who offer Recycling and waste management services to apply for one of our acclaimed sponsored Raizcorp Arize business-development programmes.

Programme Offer:

Access to finance
Access to markets
Access to specialists
Entrepreneurial learning
Business guidance
Back-office support
Access to infrastructure

Click here to apply.

Microtraction

Microtraction is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in African startups at the pre-seed stage.

Microtraction is sector agnostic and heavily biased towards smart, relentlessly resourceful founders who are building high growth, technology driven businesses in billion dollar markets.

Click here to apply for funding

Yellow Beast (Pty) Ltd

Yellow Beast is a research and development company based in South Africa. Yellow Beast is inspired by Sustainable Development Goals 2030. Current projects include Nosetsa, a cloud-based water management solution for farms and agribusinesses.

eKasiLabs

The eKasiLabs is a micro innovation hub facility spread across the 5 economic corridors in Gauteng where we foster and cultivate a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in townships. The facilities are located in Mohlakeng, Sebokeng, Garankuwa, Soweto, Tembisa, Alexandra, Mamelodi, Kagiso, Kathorus and Mabopane.

Offerings:

Business Development support
Mentoring (both technical and non-technical)
Commercialisation and market development support
Value Added service such Intellectual property and other legal service advisory
Co-creation facilities that include hotdesking, training