Available Ecosystem Support

The Raymond Ackerman Academy is a post-matric level academy that offers an inspiring and innovative six month, full-time programme in entrepreneurial development. 

The course aims at empowering young people by developing their entrepreneurial mind-sets. 

The RAA is 'RAAsome' opportunity for youth

BioPark Business Incubator provides business development support to start-ups in the health (biopharmaceuticals, medical devices and diagnostics, indigenous knowledge-based nutraceuticals, cosmeceuticals, and cosmetics), agriculture (agro-food-processing, bioprocessing, smart agriculture) in

OneBio is a Cape Town-based biotech early-stage investor and venture builder, turning life sciences into business. It is our mission to build businesses that are original and world changing. We partner with biotech entrepreneurs, providing investment capital and know-how to venture-build companies

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

Business France’s mandate is to help foster business relations between France and the countries in which the agency operates.

For example, Business France South Africa helps French companies find partners and clients in South Africa and neighbouring countries, and helps South African companies

The Transnet Enterprise Development Hub, in collaboration with the Department Of Small Business, Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA), National Youth Development Agency (NYDA), South African Revenue Services (SARS), Gauteng Enterprise Propeller (GEP), and Companies and Intellectual Property

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

FEMTECH is a South African-based company that offers a comprehensive modular training programme for women entrepreneurs who wish to grow their businesses substantially.

It is underpinned by a train-the-trainer programme to allow local capacity building of women trainers. This programme has been

HYBR is a pan African innovation firm and growth platform for impact scale-ups. Our purpose is to scale positive impact to bring real and lasting change for the African ecosystem. To fulfil our purpose we are pursuing three innovation missions: Circular Economy; Inclusion; and Sustainable Lives

Black Umbrellas is an enterprise and supplier development (ESD) incubation organisation that partners with entrepreneurs, enterprises, investors and communities, to drive an inclusive and sustainable economic future by addressing the low levels of entrepreneurship and high failure rate of 100% black

mLab is a tech-centred business working alongside partners to build a vibrant, robust innovation ecosystem. We do this by identifying and nurturing the tech-talent among our youth, supporting budding tech-entrepreneurs and their fledgling businesses, and creating tech that brings about change and

Innovate Durban is a Non-Profit Company aimed at stimulating innovation within the Durban region. Its focus is to support and promote innovation by creating platforms that will build and develop the innovation ecosystem in Durban. Innovate Durban was set up by the eThekwini Municipality in 2013 in