Call for Proposals: The Innovation Hub Management Company (TIHMC) Start-Up Support Programme 2026 (up to R300,000) – YOA

Deadline: January 23, 2026

Applications for the Innovation Hub Management Company (TIHMC) Start-Up Support Programme 2026 are actually open. The Innovation Hub Management Company (TIHMC) has established the Start-Up Support Programme (SSP) aimed toward growing entry to finance for progressive, data-primarily based small companies (SMMEs) and tasks. TIHMC has partnered with the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) by way of their Strategic Industrial Bio-innovation Partnership (SIIP) Programme, which serves as a nationwide coordinating, implementing and funding instrument to drive analysis, improvement, and innovation priorities in assist of the expansion of the commercial and environmental sectors of the Bioeconomy.

Funding is offered underneath the next Research, Development, and Innovation Programmes:

• Bioconversion and manufacturing
• Industrial Biocatalysis
• Bioremediation applied sciences
• Microbial bioprospecting
• Biorefineries

Funding

• The funding ranges from a minimal of R51,000 up to R300,000 per yearly mission. Applicants should clearly articulate their whole funding wants for the subsequent three years, together with any Year 1 necessities exceeding R300,000. The funding is particularly for SMME assist, product improvement and demonstrations.

Eligibility

This part of funding is restricted to:

• Companies at present incubated at TIHMC
• Companies concerned with being part of TIHMC’s incubation programme

Application

Proposals should embody at minimal:

• Description of the enterprise: clear articulation of the worth proposition, downside assertion, and the way the enterprise addresses the hole in contrast to present choices
• Novelty of the Project: description of what makes the product/providing distinctive in contrast to current market choices
• Market Analysis: data on market dimension, opponents, goal market/beneficiaries, obstacles to entry, penetration, and market improvement technique
• Details of Market and Buyers/Beneficiaries: data heading in the right direction prospects and any off-take agreements
• Budget: detailed finances breakdown together with different sources of funding, with 3-yr money stream projections exhibiting earnings and expenditure
• Details of the group: demonstration of the group’s capacity to perform the mission and commercialize the innovation
• Contact Information: names, emails, phone numbers, postal tackle

Applicants should submit an digital copy of the application type and all supporting documentation by e-mails to the SSP workplace to Mr. Thato Hlokoa at [email protected], and replica Mr. Sifiso Ntuli at [email protected] and your portfolio supervisor (if already part of TIHMC programme).

For extra data, go to TIHMC.