Orange Corners Innovation Fund (OCIF) GROW Programme 2026 (Funding up to R1,000,000) – YOA

Deadline: December 31, 2025

Are you an formidable entrepreneur constructing one thing modern and extraordinary? Do you could have a disruptive product, a revolutionary service, or a daring new enterprise mannequin with confirmed market traction and the potential to scale with the injection of catalytic funding? Aged 18-35 and dealing anyplace in South Africa?

Yes? Then the Orange Corners Innovation Fund (OCIF) GROW Programme 2026 is searching for YOU!

OCIF GROW, the newly launched fund of the Orange Corners Innovation Fund (OCIF) in South Africa, is an extension of the Orange Corners incubation and acceleration programmes internationally, designed to handle the financing wants of younger entrepreneurs in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. OCIF helps younger entrepreneurs to scale their companies, create jobs and handle native social challenges.

Benefits

• Funding between R200,000 – R1,000,000 to gas your enterprise development
• Support your modern merchandise, processes, enterprise fashions, or advertising methods
• An opportunity to scale up and develop your workforce
• The OPPORTUNITY to drive optimistic change by alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Eligibility

• Open to all youth (18-35) graduates of the Orange Corners Designs programme and Orange Corners Trust programmes in South Africa, in addition to any youth-owned modern enterprise primarily based in South Africa.
• South African residents with legitimate South African Identity Documents or authorized entities managed by South African residents with legitimate South African Identity Documents or everlasting residents who maintain a sound RSA ID doc.
• Must be youth-owned and managed (35 years previous or youthful – on or earlier than date of application). We strongly encourage feminine owned companies to apply.
• Business should be in first 7 years of operation.
• Post income – minimal 6 months buying and selling historical past.
• ZAR 250,000 to ZAR10 million annual turnover or gross sales.
• Clear, nicely outlined innovation addressing an area problem with confirmed market traction
• Must handle the Sustainable Development Goals.
• Must find a way to exhibit how it is possible for you to to repay the mortgage portion of the funding assist supplied.
• Must find a way to exhibit how further funding will allow you to develop your enterprise, gross sales and create impression (together with job creation).
• Must be keen to present the Fund with ongoing reviews to measure the impression throughout the lifetime of the mission.
• Businesses should be positioned in South Africa.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to OCIF GROW Programme.