Introducing Launch League Green: hub specialisation programme
About Launch League Green There is growing evidence across Africa that incubation into specialised sectors allows hubs/ ESOs to differentiate their offering to funders, therefore financial sustainability of the organisation, and to achieve far greater impact on the businesses they work with. Businesses that have environmental sustainability at the heart of their model can not […]
Viridian partners with the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation for the 5th year!
Viridian has been the training partner for the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation for the last 4 cohorts, having supported over 60 entrepreneurs from multiple countries and sectors. We’re back again for cohort 11, where we will deliver and support on the business development component of the programme, alongside our long-time […]
Viridian joins the Think Like an Investor programme to deliver investment-readiness training for African DSIs
Viridian recently ran a 3-day workshop in Tshwane and Joburg, where we had the opportunity to meet the 10 African Digital Social Innovations (DSIs) we will be working with over the next 9 months on the #ThinkLikeAnInvestor programme. Viridian‘s Alexandra Fraser, Rim Abid, and Claire Jowell formally introduced the businesses to the programme, and began […]
Key takeaways from Sankalp Africa Summit 2025
Viridian was an official networking partner at this year’s Sankalp Africa Summit. Claire Jowell represented Viridian at the Summit in Nairobi, and shared some key takeaways in this short blog. It is important to understand how the landscape is shifting and share the success and challenges of other organisations working to catalyse entrepreneurship in Africa. […]
Funding opportunity for South African businesses: Orange Corner’s Innovation Fund
We are collaborating with CDI Capital to provide young South African entrepreneurs with the knowledge, support and capital to take their innovative businesses to the next level with the launch of the Orange Corners Innovation Fund (OCIF) GROW programme. The programme is offering up to 7 entrepreneurs the opportunity to participate in an intensive investment-readiness […]
New publication: Investor’s Pocket Guide to South Africa
We’re thrilled to announce the release of our latest publication: An Investor’s Pocket Guide to South Africa! Developed at the request of the Data Governance in Africa Initiative and HAUS Finnish Institute of Public Management Ltd., this pocket guide is designed to empower European and African investors interested in the exciting world of data-driven digital […]
Celebrating women’s month, August 2020
During women’s month, our team has been reflecting on all the incredible women we work with – as partners, clients and through our programmes in Southern Africa. While women represent an increasingly growing proportion of entrepreneurs and early-stage investors, we know that is still a lot of work to be done. As an all-women team, […]
Covid 19 Funding Infographic for SA Businesses
With the country in lockdown for 3 weeks and potentially longer, it has never been a more uncertain and challenging time to be an entrepreneur in South Africa. Government, individuals and business have stepped up to give SMEs some financial support to cushion the blow via various funding mechanisms to relieve salary, debt and tax […]
Start-up Visas: Countries Draw Top Talent
Published Financial Mail, by HANNA ZIADY, SEPTEMBER 01 2016 A growing number of countries determined to attract entrepreneurs to their soil are handing “start-up visas” to the best and brightest of them. A start-up visa enables entrepreneurs to live and start businesses in countries where they are not citizens or permanent residents, for a defined […]
