YANDA -Centre Of Innovation And Entrepreneurship
Yanda Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship empowers entrepreneurs through inclusive support, skill development, and business growth services. It offers tailored training in science, technology, and engineering for blind and deaf youth, and connects them with SMEs for meaningful employment. The centre also supports innovation through ideation, business strategy, design thinking, funding access, IP registration, and prototyping.
Great North Business Incubator
The Great North Business Incubator (GNBI) is a multi-sector incubator dedicated to empowering entrepreneurs to transform local challenges into sustainable businesses. GNBI offers expert mentorship, training, and scalable support across sectors such as youth development, education, health, mining, environment, tourism, and enterprise. Its mission is to build resilient ventures that drive inclusive economic growth across Sub-Saharan Africa.
Anzisha
Anzisha is a incubator dedicated to driving economic transformation across Africa by fostering youth-led enterprises. The organization supports young entrepreneurs through targeted funding, bespoke business development training, structured leadership growth opportunities, and access to a supportive network of peers and experienced mentors. By equipping Africa’s youth to become resilient job creators, Anzisha contributes meaningfully to the advancement of sustainable, inclusive economic growth on the continent.
Trailblazer Digital Hub
Trailblazer Digital Hub is a Level One BBBEE-rated non-profit organization founded in 2020, dedicated to empowering individuals and businesses in South Africa to thrive in the digital economy. We provide accessible ICT solution bundles—including software development, data science training, and specialized digital skills programs—designed especially for youth and the unemployed. Our mission is to drive innovation, digital inclusion, and entrepreneurship by equipping people with the tools, skills, and support they need to succeed in today’s tech-driven world.
Phukira
Phukira is an ecosystem builder driven by interdisciplinary development catalysts, aiming to accelerate development outcomes in the majority world for both profit and non-profit organizations. They create, build, and nurture impactful solutions for locally-led social enterprises, early-stage businesses, nonprofits, communities, and individuals by breaking barriers to impact and scale.
University of Cape Town financial innovation hub
The Financial Innovation Hub is affiliated with the University of Cape Town, the continent’s leading research institution. It is dedicated to bringing together the brightest minds in Africa to drive research and innovation in financial technologies. Positioned within Africa’s largest technology hub, often referred to as the “Silicon Valley of Africa” and home to over 450 tech startups; the Financial Innovation Hub serves as a focal point for cutting-edge advancements in the fintech space. With the overarching goal of fostering a local ecosystem of academics, students, and entrepreneurs, the Financial Innovation Hub encompasses various components, including Academic Research, Innovation, Teaching and Thought Leadership.
Eight2Five Innovation Hub
Eight2Five is an innovative hub that partners with entrepreneurs to achieve a shared vision of solving real-world and business challenges through technology. It focuses on creating a modern, professional, and energetic work environment that stimulates the creativity and productivity of entrepreneurial businesses and their teams. Additionally, it provides an enabling environment for innovation and entrepreneurship within its startup and SME community.
Nxtgen Labs
NxtGen Labs is an innovation Lab dedicated to advancing emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotics, and more. Its mission is to establish itself as a leading center of excellence in the region, specializing in the training, development, and creation of cutting-edge innovations and products in these fields. NxtGen Labs focuses on areas like Robotics, IoT, Machine Learning, AI, Blockchain, Virtual Reality, and many others, driving progress and shaping the future of technology.
I’M IN STARTUP HUB
The I’M IN Startup Hub is a high-growth community of Startups focused on the African technology sector, providing opportunities for entrepreneurs with technical skills who have limited access to resources. Through their programs, I’M IN Startup Hub partners with entrepreneurs to develop technology-enabled solutions, offering access to early-stage funding, business development support, and one-on-one mentorship from industry specialists.
Savant Technology Incubator
Savant Technology is a sector-agnostic incubator and venture capital firm that supports technology businesses from product development to scaling. As a commercially focused hardware technology incubator, they provide tailored business development support. They partner with highly skilled science and technology innovators, offering customized commercialization support through long-term, risk-based partnerships to help hardware technology inventors grow their startups.