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  • 3 Capital Ventures - Venture Capital Investor

    3 Capital Ventures is South Africa's first institutional investor for early-stage, post-revenue B2B startups. They lead seed rounds and reserve capital to follow on as you scale — backing founders solving urgent productivity problems in fast-growing niches: selling more, getting paid faster, cutting costs, or doing the same work with fewer people. Founding team alumni from Discovery, Uber, McKinsey and Allan Gray.

  • Cell C Business - Telecommunications

    Cell C Business is built on a simple belief: nothing should stop your business. As South Africa's original challenger brand, Cell C has a long history of changing the industry through innovation, from mobile number portability and per-second billing to becoming the country's leading MVNO enabler. Today, that same challenger mindset powers Cell C Business.

  • Chat Inc - Whatsapp Specialists

    WhatsApp marketing automation and chat commerce platform powering campaigns, chatbots, notifications and in-chat payments for Africa's biggest brands.

  • Cloud On Demand - Cloud Distributor

    Cloud On Demand is a South African cloud services and solutions distributor, enabling businesses to easily access and manage leading technologies through a single, unified platform. We partner with global vendors including Microsoft and AWS to deliver scalable, secure cloud, backup, and security solutions. Designed to support modern digital businesses, Cloud On Demand works closely with tech startups, ISVs, SaaS providers, and DevOps teams providing the flexibility, automation, and commercial models needed to build, deploy, and scale faster in the cloud.

  • Dommisse Attorneys Inc - Startup Legal and IP

    Corporate finance and commercial law firm specialising in startup legal, venture capital transactions, IP protection, exchange controls, and international structuring. We support African technology companies raising capital from local and international investors and advise on offshore structures and cross-border venture capital transactions.

  • DoubleShift - Brand & Comms

    A brand and creative leadership agency for high-trust, high-complexity B2B businesses. We work upstream of execution, helping fintech, payments, financial services and regulated infrastructure companies engineer trust as a commercial asset, build category authority, and convert credibility into pipeline.

  • FDC - LinkedIn Growth

    LinkedIn personal branding and social selling agency helping service-based businesses generate opportunity and build authority through data-driven strategy.

  • Finvoke - Compliance, Accounting and CFO

    Finvoke acts as your outsourced finance function, handling everything from bookkeeping and payroll to compliance, reporting, and CFO-level advisory. We handle your finances, so you can focus on building your business.

  • Govchain - Company Setup & Compliance

    All-in-one platform for company registration, CIPC compliance, bookkeeping, invoicing and tax filing — used by thousands of SA business owners.

  • Isle of Man - IP Offshoring

    Isle of Man is a premium jurisdiction for IP offshoring, offshore wealth trusts and international business structuring with a 0% corporate tax rate. Offshore company structures, offshore investing, offshore insurance and captive insurance in a tax neutral jurisdiction. We offer a platform for businesses expanding internationally to set up for long term, tax efficient growth and diversification.

  • Isoflow - Design / Technology

    Isoflow is a digital product design company that uses strategy, research, and data to create products that drive real business impact. You've probably tapped, swiped and touched their work along with millions of others. Isoflow focuses exclusively on UX and UI design, helping companies around the world craft intuitive, high-performing digital products.

  • Jonsson Workwear - Workwear and PPE

    Jonsson Workwear supplies durable workwear, footwear, PPE, safety boots, and staff uniforms for South African teams through its online shop and national store network.

  • Newsletter Co - Newsletters

    Done-for-you newsletter agency that sources, writes, compiles and sends newsletters for B2B and B2C brands in South Africa and beyond.

  • OCTOCO - Technical Partner

    Full-spectrum technology partner offering outsourced CTO services, software development, hardware engineering and investment advisory for startups and corporates.

  • Paystack - Payments

    Africa's leading payments infrastructure provider powering online and offline payments for businesses across 10+ countries with cards, bank transfers and mobile money.

  • Praelexis AI - AI and Data Science

    Praelexis is an AI advisory and implementation partner that helps companies turn data into action through AI strategy, data integration, reporting, custom AI solutions, and GenAI implementation.

  • The Founder Collab - Founder Community

    A paid founder community where ambitious South African founders connect, collaborate and grow together through exclusive events, resources and peer support.

  • Xero - Accounting software

    Xero is cloud accounting software built for small businesses, sole traders, and the accountants who serve them. It handles invoicing, bank reconciliation, VAT returns, expenses, and reporting from one dashboard you can open on a laptop or your phone, and connects to FNB, Absa, Standard Bank, Nedbank, and most other major SA banks via direct bank feeds.