Available Ecosystem Support

22 ON SLOANE is the largest startup campus in Africa. The campus offers startups and innovative SMEs a complete turnkey solution to scale, from the initial idea to commercialisation, funding opportunities and access to markets. Its aim is to nurture the entrepreneurial mindset, ensure their

Seed Engine is a business accelerator. 3 times a year, Seed engine invests in the top 10 business ideas and entrepreneurs and brings them in to join their stable of ventures. When they exit the 13-week program, the entrepreneurs transform into leaders and their ideas become Investable Businesses

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

Zimele is about creating sustainability in business. It’s focused on building sustainable livelihoods in the Anglo American host communities and on strengthening relationships to create synergies within Anglo American and with broader mining industry partners. 

Zimele is playing its part to create

Grindstone is a structured entrepreneurship development programme that assists high-growth innovation-driven companies to get the fundamental building blocks in place to scale quickly and become sustainable and fundable.

Grindstone offers a range of programmes:

GrindstoneXL programme

Every year a

BarloWorld Siyakhula is the supplier and enterprise development arm of Barloworld Limited responsible for promoting transformation, Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment and supplier diversity within the group's value chain.

BarloWorld Siyakhula creates opportunities for small and medium-sized

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

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

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

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

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