Business Development

Develop entrepreneur capacity; Remove barriers to growth by offering low-cost capital

Provides support for early stage testing and scale up of innovative technologies and business models that will accelerate access to affordable, clean energy services for poor households and enterprises, especially in Africa

Beyond investment capital, they provide support and resources to help startups get to the next level. Key services include: Customer Discovery; Mentorship; Startup development; Fundraising; Peer collaboration; Co-working space.

Bongohive provides a range of startup and tech programmes, workshops and events. In addition to their startup programmes, they organise issue-specific workshops and seminars, support community developer groups on a variety of topics such as gaming and robotics and host a wide range of industry networking events.

Capacity building, mentoring programs and community empowerment.

Their approach in providing capacity building and development is based on three pillars: Community; Open Living Lab; Pre-Incubation services

1. ADVICE AND GUIDANCE: Overall project structure; financial structuring; sourcing equity and debt financing; technical and engineering aspects; development and presentation of business plans with an investment pitch; and business growth strategy.2. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE: Limited funding may be available to selected projects for feasibility and technical studies.3. INVESTOR MATCHMAKING: Introduction to financing sources and facilitation to help secure investment.

The key Products & Services within Corporate Finance include:1. Mergers, Acquisitions and Disposals2. Balance Restructuring3. Capital raise advisory (Debt & Equity)4. Due Diligence5. Estimation of Fair Valuation and Data Room Management.6. Transaction Support and Readiness7. Private Equity Advisory

GroFin provides business support to SMEs from the time of application all the way through to the final repayment of loans. Business support is ongoing and continuous.

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