Available Ecosystem Support

Ignitor is an enterprise support programme that engages with South Africa's best entrepreneurs, inventors, scientists and artists and supports them to create and scale their innovations. 

Enterprise Elevator is a partner-driven incubator designed to scale high-growth tech businesses that provide positive social impact.

It is a South African-based collaborative business accelerator programme focused on high-grow technology enterprises that are motivated by the social challenges

Aurik Business Accelerator is a business accelerator that provides customised business growth programmes aimed at growing a business to the next level. 

WomHub provides hub support programmes and co-working facilities for female-founded teams.

It offers a suite of services, from tailored services for the individual founder all the way through to working with corporations that are focussed on building a diverse supply chain and workforce that is

LaunchLab is an initiative of Innovus, situated in the centre of Stellenbosch University’s campus. LaunchLab focuses on developing both the entrepreneur as well as the business.  It functions as a business accelerator and boosts entrepreneurship on campus by providing networking opportunities

Founders Factory Africa encompasses a unique bunch of creative builders, designers, entrepreneurs and mentors, who bring a wealth of knowledge and years of experience to those they work with.

The organisation has a heart for Africa, is proud to be a part of its complex and flourishing fabric, and

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 French South African Tech Labs (FSAT Labs) is an incubator and accelerator for French and South African tech start-ups, based in Century City, Cape Town. It offers 400 sqm of incubation & acceleration space. Based on the partnership between Seda (Small Enterprise Development Agency) and Methys

Startup Mzansi is a grassroots network of entrepreneurs working together to build an environment for entrepreneurship in South Africa. Through online platforms, grassroots Startup Communities and cross-sector initiatives, Startup Mzansi is advancing entrepreneurial momentum and a culture of

Founded in 2008, The Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) is a non-profit program established by Meltwater with the goal of equipping high potential young Africans with the skills required to launch globally successful software companies, enabling them to create jobs and wealth

The Department of Science of Innovation (DSI), in collaboration with Water Research Commission (WRC), established the Water Technologies Demonstration Programme (WADER) to pull together applied research and development and pre- commercialisation stages of the water innovation continuum. Acting as an

The Innovation Hub, the innovation agency of the Gauteng Province is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Gauteng Growth and Development Agency.  It was established by the Gauteng Provincial Government through its Department of Economic Development to promote economic development and competitiveness of