The Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship and the SAB Foundation (SABF) have partnered to offer the Student Seed Fund to social innovators and entrepreneurs as part of their joint missions to catalyse and invest in change makers. The Student Seed Fund (SSF) is open to all UCT, UCT GSB and RAA students, and entrepreneurs that have gone through UCT programmes...
The Top Empowerment, South Africa's premier transformation platform, will host its 5th Annual conference in Johannesburg on 10 and 11 April. The leading empowerment knowledge-sharing platform in the country, the event will arm business leaders with the latest insights into transformation and identify opportunities to help businesses thrive. Aiming to accelerate empowerment in South Africa...
The Urbantech program is a global accelerator program for startups within the urban tech space. Together with the partners of the program, startups will scale their businesses and further the development of sustainable cities. The program will run through 2019-2021, admitting 10 startups in each cycle. The Urbantech program is a world-class accelerator for high potential...
n times of crisis, the faster you move can cement your survival. To help business owners to respond at speed to the coronavirus and its effects, Edge Growth has developed a Covid-19 Survival Toolkit for the small business and entrepreneur, providing you with the keys you need to unlock swift responses and planning and position your business...
Visa Everywhere Initiative is a global innovation program that tasks start-ups to solve payment challenges of tomorrow, further enhance their own product propositions and provide visionary solutions for Visa's vast network of partners. The program first launched in the U.S. in 2015 and quickly expanded into other regions of the world with more than 4,000 participating...
Future Females has confirmed a partnership with UK - SA Tech Hub - a newly established UK Government initiative established to build links between tech businesses in the UK and South Africa. The Hub will specifically aim to support local tech entrepreneurship, cultivate digital skills and promote opportunities for youth and women in the...
Ampion Venture is a profit and impact-driven company builder with the goal to develop and grow innovative business models in the fields of agriTech, EnergyTech, and FinTech in Africa. They support the world’s strongest entrepreneurs through investment, operational and strategic support in establishing sustainable start-ups that generate revenue and create jobs to revolutionize Africa’s...
The SAB Foundation has opened applications for its ninth annual Social Innovation Awards, as well as the fourth annual Disability Empowerment Awards. In this year’s awards, the SAB Foundation will hand out a total of R12-million in prize money. Winners will receive prizes ranging between R200 000 and R1.3-million. The SAB Foundation finds, supports and scales social innovations – through...
SEED has launched the SEED Awards 2019 . This year, up to 66 prize packages will be awarded to locally-driven early-stage enterprises, that leverage their innovative business solutions to solve social and environmental challenges in Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malawi, South Africa, Thailand, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Enterprises that fulfil the following eligibility criteria are encouraged to apply: a)...
The Injini Cohort 3 programme will launch in May 2019. For this, 8 start-ups from across Africa will join the programme for 4 months during which we will deliver workshops, mentoring and networking as well as technology, research and dedicated support from the Injini team. As part of this revised programme, each start-up will...
