• Development Finance Institution or Donor Agency

Gauteng Enterprise Propeller

The GEP is conducting regional business booster pitch workshops, boot-camps, competitions and networking sessions with a view to ensure that SMMEs, Cooperatives, and Youth Owned and Managed Enterprises (YOMEs) are supported to be investment ready, and thereby assisted to grow their ideas to sustainable enterprises. The workshops are intended to afford local entrepreneurs an opportunity to sell their businesses and ideas for financial assistance and necessary business development support.

  • Stages of Support

    • Idea
    • Start-up
    • Early
    • Growth
    • Mature

  • Nonfinancial support delivery mechanism

    • Mentoring
    • Classroom / seminar training
    • Direct Consulting Services
    • Competitions / prizes
    • Peer to Peer / Network-based Support

  • Nonfinancial Support

    • Access to networks and partners
    • Marketing support or market research
    • Building HR capacity
    • Business strategy and planning
    • Financial management
    • Needs assessment
    • Value / supply chain development
    • Ideation
    • Legal, accounting, other office services
    • Sector development
    • Governance structure
    • Due diligence
    • Exit strategies
    • Technology development or adoption
    • Media exposure
    • Product certification
    • Access to markets

  • Investment Instruments

    • Debt
    • Grant

  • Intervention Type

    • Provide nonfinancial services to entrepreneurs directly
    • Invest Directly
    • Conduct research on the sector
    • Promote and educate about entrepreneurship

  • Sectors of Focus

    • Agriculture & Food
    • Energy
    • Environment
    • Information and communication technology
    • Manufacturing
    • Supply chain services
    • Housing and community development
    • Logistics & distribution
    • Hospitality / travel / tourism
    • Infrastructure / facilities development
    • Financial services
    • Media & entertainment
    • Water & sanitation
    • Transportation
    • Wholesale and retail trade

  • Stakeholder or Business Model Focus

    • Base of the pyramid
    • Social enterprise
    • Women entrepreneurs
    • Science, engineering or invention based businesses
    • Accessibility
    • Advocacy
    • Citizen empowerment
    • Rural communities
    • Gender inclusion
    • Youth entrepreneurs
    • Urban communities
    • Resiliency / climate change
    • Ethical sourcing
    • Minority or previously excluded population
    • Franchising

  • Impact objectives

    • Agricultural productivity
    • Capacity building
    • Community development
    • Employment generation
    • Energy and fuel efficiency
    • Food security and nutrition
    • Income/productivity growth
    • Sustainable energy
    • Water resources management
    • Access to information
    • Equality and empowerment
    • Access to financial services
    • Human rights protection or expansion
    • Natural resources conservation
    • Sustainable land use

  • Verticals

    • AgTech
    • E-commerce
    • FinTech
    • Software as a service (SaaS)
    • Biotech
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