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SUMMARY:Business Wowen's Association SA and IDF Capital Women's Business Clinic
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nIDF Capital together with BWASA is excited to invite female entrepreneurs who are operating businesses that have potential for significant scale and seeking to raise growth capital to participate in a full-day intensive scale-up clinic especially curated for growth ready enterprises.  Interested participants must have a sound performance track record of at least two years and must be generating consistent and growing revenue. \nThe full-day clinic will be held in Sandton\, Johannesburg on the 20th February 2020. \nIDF Capital through Alitheia IDF Fund mandate is seeking to invest in and support high growth SMEs with a focus on women-owned/led businesses\, with the objective of: \n\nStrengthening and increasing the participation of women-owned businesses\, women in business\, and women in the supply chain across economies on the African continent;\nProviding non-financial support to the investee companies to enable them to grow into self- sustaining and profitable businesses with expanded market reach; and\nDeveloping local economic activity that benefits local communities\, and involves substantial participation by local enterprises\n\nAlitheia IDF Fund is open to receiving investment applications from enterprises operating in all sectors. The businesses to be considered for investment will be required to meet the following criteria: \n\nMust be operating in any of the following countries: South Africa\, Lesotho\, Zambia\, Zimbabwe\, Nigeria or Ghana;\nQualify as small or medium-sized enterprise – meet any 2 (two) of the following 3 (three) criteria: less than 250 (two hundred and fifty) employees; total value of assets of less than $10million (R145m); and/or total annual turnover of less than $10million (R145m);\nCommercially viable with an operational track record of at least 2 (two) years and proven revenues;\nHave significant participation of women in their business as either owners\, managers\, producers\, distributors or consumers;\nHave owners that are operationally involved in the business;\nSeeking growth capital of US$2 million (R29m) to US$5 million (R72.5m);\nStrong and committed management team with relevant experience\, qualifications and ability to execute the business plan; and\nPossess the potential to deliver developmental impact in terms of jobs created\, increased and sustained incomes for low-income households and for women in particular; and increased tax generation.\n\nIf your business meets all the above criteria\, please be sure to contact us at gauteng@bwasa.co.za \nThe THINK SCALE CLINIC is exclusively open to active BWASA members at a nominal entrance fee of R495 \nNon-members who qualify to be part of the full day scale clinic are urged to contact gauteng@bwasa.co.za find out how they can participate.\nSeats are limited\, please contact gauteng@bwasa.co.za by 10 February 2020 to secure your space\n\n\n\n
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