Accelerators

Investor Showcase For Socially Conscious Entrepreneurs

Author: Staff Reporter |

South Africa faces significant challenges of unemployment, food security, crime and environmental sustainability. SMMEs are critical to addressing these issues  and inclusive and sustainable economy through job creation and service delivery. It is therefore essential that we support these SMMEs. For the last 10 months the New Economy Accelerator has been incubating entrepreneurs that service […]

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@SABKickStart 2016: In Search Of Young Entrepreneurs Via #StartupTruck

Author: Staff Reporter |

SAB’s flagship enterprise development programme, SAB KickStart will embark on a month-long recruitment campaign this Youth Month, using a new innovative #StartupTruck that will travel across the country on a youth entrepreneurship drive to find South Africa’s promising young entrepreneurs. The campaign, targeted at entrepreneurs and innovators between the ages of 18 and 35, will […]

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#StartParth: An Opportunity for Best African StartUps To Partner with @MasterCard

Author: Staff Reporter |

Technology and data are transforming the way consumers and businesses interact with each other, driving a need to bring new ideas to market with greater speed.  The right corporate-startup partnership gives startups an accelerated path to scale innovative solutions. The MasterCard Start Path Global 2016 program has been designed with that objective and has launched […]

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Entries Open For #BreakMakeCreate15 Hackathon

Author: Staff Reporter |

Designers, creatives, coders and techies: fire up your brains, sharpen your pencils, polish your screwdrivers or soldering irons, and get ready to hack – entries have opened for this year’s Break.Make.Create. (#BreakMakeCreate15) hackathon. Break.Make.Create. is the brainchild of digital and interactive agency Hellocomputer, and was created to not only improve the skill set of the […]

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An Opportunity To Become An Incubatee of the Incubation Hub

Author: Staff Reporter |

Recently launched black business incubator Riversands Incubation Hub is seeking high potential entrepreneurs to join its on-campus acceleration programme. The Riversands Incubation Hub, funded by Century Property Developments and The Jobs Fund, officially opened in March 2015. Since then, the Hub has received a steady stream of applications, and so far 14 of the top […]

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SAB’s Secret Brew For Developing Young Entrepreneurs in South Africa Is Out

Author: Staff Reporter |

The South African Breweries (SAB) has evolved its 20-year old youth entrepreneurship programme, SAB KickStart, expanding it into three enterprise development initiatives. The three programmes are SAB KickStart Ignite, SAB KickStart Boost and SAB KickStart Elevate, each targeting youth-owned businesses with different areas of focus and at varying stages of operation. This three-pronged approach and commitment to enterprise development […]

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SAB Kickstart 2015 National Finalists Announced

Author: Staff Reporter |

SAB KickStart, the South African Breweries’ (SAB) youth entrepreneurship programme, announced the competition’s Top 18 national finalists for 2015, during a grant allocation ceremony at SAB’s World of Beer in Newtown, Johannesburg, today. Each of the finalists has begun an intensive business development support programme, which will culminate in an award ceremony to celebrate the […]

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