Orange Corners Designs Programme – Cape Town Cohort 2025 – YOA

Deadline: February 20, 2025

Applications are open for the Orange Corners Designs Programme – Cape Town Cohort 2025. Are you a younger South African entrepreneur primarily based in Cape Town and able to take your small business to the following degree? Got an progressive services or products that would shake up the market? Looking to scale, develop your influence, and create job alternatives for fellow youth? If your small business is all about making a optimistic difference and contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), that is your likelihood!

This 12-month intensive programme is geared toward supporting 20 progressive, Cape Town-based companies that contribute to the SDGs (in sectors corresponding to however not restricted to round/inexperienced financial system, digital, agriculture and inventive sectors).

Benefits

• As part of the Orange Corners Designs programme, individuals will acquire entry to a spread of sources and help, together with workshops, mentorship, and enterprise growth instruments.
• In addition, those that are chosen may turn into eligible for alternatives corresponding to prototyping grants and enterprise loans of as much as R1,000,000 from the Orange Corners Innovation Fund (OCIF), which might additional help the expansion and innovation of their companies.

Eligibility

• Entrepreneur have to be a South African between the ages 18-35 years;
• Business have to be managed and/or run by the proprietor (Entrepreneur);
• Business have to be an current enterprise with demonstrable historical past and traction and/or present credible market analysis that reveals viability if proposing a brand new product or innovation;
• Business should reveal innovation and/or distinctive proposition that contributes to the SDGs and handle urgent wants or alternatives (in sectors corresponding to however not restricted to round/inexperienced financial system, digital sector, agriculture and inventive sectors);
• Demonstrate the flexibility to scale by way of influence and/or job creation;
• Participants have to be keen/capable of take day without work from enterprise and commit for a interval of 12 months;
• Must be registered, or affirm a dedication to register, with the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC);
• Applicants want to finish the application type in full offering the essential enterprise info required.

Preference can be given to ladies entrepreneurs however all younger folks between 18-35 years are inspired to apply.

Application

Apply now to affix a transformative journey and unlock your small business’s potential! Application deadline is February 20, 2025.

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For extra info, go to Orange Corners Designs Programme.