Zimbabwe
iZone Hub
We are a Zimbabwean entrepreneurship and innovation hub that offers pre-incubation and linkages programs. We serve small businesses, makers and creatives helping them develop their enterprises in the digital age. <mark>We focus on developing actual skills and building people who run self-sustainable businesses. The focal point is on pre-incubation, incubation and acceleration of business ideas. </mark> <p></p> Zone was started in 2015 emerging from the need to help people move from ideas to businesses. Our training programs are centred on developing actual skills and building people who run self-sustainable businesses. Enterprise development in the digital age is of great importance to us. <p></p> Vision <br> To support the development of sustainable enterprises that solve difficult and important community problems in the digital age. <p></p>Mission <br> Equipping people with the business development skills and tools they need to build sound, solution oriented businesses.
Batanai 2 Create
Harare's freshest Coworking space and incubator that provides an enabling environment for sustainable economic empowerment and social transformation in Zimbabwe and the region through Innovation and Entrepreneurship. <p></p> <mark>A business accelerator and incubator, B2C Coworking offers entrepreneurial services for both those just starting up and those looking to reinvent themselves. This is the space where you can develop an established business or launch and grow a new one whilst strengthening and diversifying the local economy. The core focus of B2C Coworking is to foster innovation, commercialization, create jobs and facilitate investment in the Startup Ecosystem.</mark> <p></p> Various programs, which include workshops and events give plenty of opportunities or coworking individuals to meet likeminded souls in a creative and collaborative way. Coworking membership fees are on an all-inclusive monthly basis that allow you to turn up, switch on and start working. The mandate of B2C is to unlock the full potential of diverse and ambitious entrepreneurs to economically transform communities providing job and wealth creation by providing high-impact assistance working one-on-one to establish and achieve value-creating milestones of growth. <p></p> A non-profit organization it offers small offices, office suites, labs and a co-working space sitting in Harare's hippest street cloaked in colour and diversity and known as Zimbabwe's innovation district. If you are at all interested in joining this dynamic space that catalyzes entire communities of startups through business acceleration, incubation, co-working and events then you should get in touch with them.
Impact Hub Harare
Together, we grow a locally rooted, globally connected community for measurable positive impact. We believe that large-scale social change, innovative solutions and world-altering ideas stem from collaboration, connectivity and community. That the <mark>dreamers and makers of the world need a place to call home, to connect to others, to collaborate and to be part of something bigger.</mark> We inspire, connect and enable social impact initiatives while driving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
Eight2Five
Eight2Five is an Innovative Hub that partners with entrepreneurs to achieve a shared vision of solving real world and business problems through technology. We provide an enabling environment for innovation and entrepreneurship for our startup and SME community. <p></p> Programs <p></p> Pitch Perfect<br> Business Model Deep Dives.<br> Every Thursday we allow our Hub members to pitch their business ventures and get feedback from our core team and fellow hub members. This platform is designed to prepare our Hub members for investor pitching. <p></p> Start-up Meet Up<br> Meet your Business Heroes.<br> A virtual and hybrid weekly session with a guest speaker. We select business leaders and influencers to network, share advice, discuss strategies and exchange ideas. <p></p> <mark>Incubation Workshops<br> Tailored Business Development.<br> We foster the development of early-stage companies and start-ups by providing mentoring, workspace, funding and networked services designed to accelerate their success.</mark>
CITE
Our mission is to create space for creativity and promote “ARTIVISM” which is the creative integration of art and activism for social change. <p></p> We believe in African Innovation, discovering the innovation opportunities is the first step in our process at the Centre For Innovation & Technology we provide an <mark>open community space, an incubator that is vibrant and enables a collaborative environment for innovators and startups to think through their ideas, and develop their solutions, so as to turn these opportunities into meaningful products, services, and businesses</mark>, Sometimes we have a pretty good sense of where the opportunities are and the real challenge is to come up with ideas to take advantage of the opportunity.
The Creative Factory Hub
The Creative Factory Hub is to provide facilities for the promotion and development of the start-up. Arterial Network Zimbabwe is a dynamic, civil-society network of artists, cultural activists, entrepreneurs, enterprises, NGOs, institutions, and donors active in Africa’s creative and cultural sectors. The Creative Factory Hub <mark>seeks to facilitate for inclusion of LGBTQAI+ persons into the Zimbabwean mainstream economy through providing entrepreneurship training, mentorship and safe working stations, which empowers LGBTQAI+ youth with skills and tailor made support in order to start and sustain their own enterprises and advocacy for inclusion of LGBTQAI+ in the mainstream economy.</mark>
The Tech Village
The Tech Village is an innovation hub that runs incubation and acceleration programmes focused on skill acquisition and youth engagement. <p></p> The TechVillage is the first and only collaborative working space for young entrepreneurs in Bulawayo, aiming to help build and launch 20 start-ups in and around Africa every year. Leveraging on the collaborative brilliance of our community and the use of technology to greatly reduce cost whilst significantly multiplying impact, <mark>The TechVillage seeks to empower the youth through the provision of relevant education, affordable access to information and technology and ultimately inspire creativity through experiences. While the TechVillage is physically based in Zimbabwe, it actively grows and connects with entrepreneurial communities across the continent that are called Tribes.</mark> Through the provision of resources, infrastructure, community, education and working space, the TechVillage will create employment, foster collaboration through peer driven learning and contribute to the development and commercialisation of Africa’s abundant intellectual and human resource.