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Google launches Digital Hub for SMEs

Google has announced new tools to help businesses, job seekers,  educational institutions and vulnerable populations to recover from the impact of the Covid-19 crisis, with the aim to address the need for funding, training and services across various sectors, including support for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and teachers. Among other initiatives, Google has set...

Yiedi programmes to assist technology businesses are open.

Applications are now open for Yiedi's technology programmes If you are a high-growth technology business, the IBM Techschale is for you. It is a fully sponsored programme and applications close on the 15th of October 2020. If you are an aspiring technology business and have a tech idea, the Technology Programme is what you...

Wadhwani Foundation regional launch of the Advanced Entrepreneurship Start-up Lab Program.

Wadhwani Foundation Southern Africa is proud to launch a merit scholarship based entry into its Advanced Entrepreneurship Program – ‘WF Start-up Lab’ allowing entrepreneurs access to this program and the resources that the program opens up beyond the program.  The Start-up LAB Program allows students and entrepreneurs lateral entry into the WF Advanced Entrepreneurship Program,...

SAVCA 2020 Venture Capital Industry Survey Launched

The annual SAVCA Venture Capital (VC) Survey analyses deal activity of venture capital and similar early-stage investments intomainly South African businesses. It is based on data sourced from various types of fund managers, including SAVCA members,active in the VC asset class. The data is reported on in calendar years and covers the full spectrum...

V&A Waterfront kitchen incubator opens applications

The V&A Waterfront’s, Makers Landing, a development created by the V&A Waterfront in partnership with the National Treasury’s Job Fund has opened applications for its Food Lab incubation programme.  The programme will offer opportunities to qualified business startups and existing small food businesses that can show that they will benefit significantly from affordable access to a...

YPO Leadership Development Network A+ Accelerator Applications Open

The YPO Leadership Development Network A+ Accelerator is now accepting applications until the 2nd of November 2020. You will have to meet a number of criteria including: 1) be an operating business legally licensed in your country;2) have at least 1 full-time committed person working in the business;3) being a "tech-leveraged" business model where you...

Entrepreneurs are invited to take part in research exploring the entrepreneurial orientation in SA.

Palesa Molingoane, a Chevening Scholar completing her Masters at the University of Reading, is currently conducting research for her dissertation exploring the entrepreneurial orientation of entrepreneurs in SA. The aim of the study is to assess the various dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation in (technology) entrepreneurs, given the combination of market conditions in Africa and the...

I’m In Accelerator launches Pre-Accelerator Programme for women in tech

South African black women with an early-stage technology business idea or concept are invited to apply to I’M IN’s new pre-accelerator programme. The programme is aimed at supporting and the upliftment of all-Black women-owned tech startups. The first instalment of the program will kick-off in September 2020 and will take place virtually over 12 weeks....

APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN FOR THE SAB FOUNDATION THOLOANA ENTERPRISE PROGRAMME

Set up in 2010 as one element of the broad-based black economic empowerment transaction conducted by South African Breweries Ltd (SAB), the SAB Foundation is an independent trust that annually invests millions of rands towards developing entrepreneurship in South Africa and the benefit of the wider South African community. The programme focuses on providing funding...