Catherine Young is taking our Oracle Innovate Lab founders through today’s People & Entrepreneur Workshop: “Know yourself, build your team.” A great session of reflection, practical insight and learning today! #Entrepreneurship #SMEs #Leadership #TeamBuilding #Eswatini

Meet LUNA Hair + Body, back for Year Two of the Oracle Innovate Lab programme! This SME was born from the difficulty of finding hair & skincare products that work for African hair textures & skin. Take a look: lunahairandbody.com #Beauty #Eswatini #OracleInnovateLab

Meet Aquaritech IT Solutions, a Year Two SME of the Oracle Innovate Lab. #Eswatini businesses need reliable, affordable #IT support. From their base in #Mbabane, Aquaritech delivers #ICT solutions that solve real problems, affordably, and well: aquaritech.net #SME

Meet Beef Boys #Butchery, back for the #OracleInnovateLab. The #founders knew meat better than almost anything else and turned that #knowledge into a butchery known for quality & consistency in #Eswatini. Best #biltong out there if you ask us! beefboysbutchery.com

Meet liCebo Labs, one of our new SMEs in the Oracle Innovate Lab Programme. FSPs want to offer customers more. Building that yourself is a slow and costly detour from your core business. liCebo Labs solves this! #FinTech #Eswatini #OracleInnovateLab

Meet eduSphere AI, a new SME on the Oracle Innovate Lab Programme. Its AI-driven platform flags exactly where a student is struggling in real time, gives teachers concrete intervention recommendations, and delivers targeted practice back to the student. #EdTech #Eswatini #SME

#Doctors & #hospitals in #Eswatini lose time & money to billing backlogs and slow debt collection. Lumi Health fixes this, opening Eswatini's private healthcare to Mozambicans and regional patients: #medical travel made simple. Check out what they do: lumi-health.com

Meet Global Harvest Hub! #Agriculture runs on trust, which is often missing between stakeholders in #Eswatini. This #SME brings a new way of making agricultural commodities visible, verifiable and usable across the agricultural value chain. Have a look: globalharvesthub.co

The #OracleInnovateLab is back for Year Two, and this is a strong cohort! Cohort One proved the model. Six #Emaswati #founders went through six months of mentorship, masterclasses and funding readiness support. Cohort Two builds on this, split into two phases. #SME

Twelve official languages. One fire. Total agreement that it's a braai, not a barbecue. Happy Heritage Day, South Africa! #BraaiDay #ZA #ProudlySouthAfrican #Braai #HeritageDay2026

What a great three days at #GECAfrica 2026 in Cape Town, from #investor readiness to the next decade of African venture capital. The line that stuck: the #Africa we want won't simply arrive. We build it, job by job, #community by community, #partnership by partnership.

It's the final day of #GECAfrica 2026! The theme is #ConnectingAfrica, and today keeps that thread going: more panel discussions, investor conversations and policy dialogue, alongside #pitching sessions and space to connect with #founders & #investors from across the continent.

Great panel to end the day: The Next Decade of African #VC. Trends, exits & what it takes to build #African #fund managers who can go the distance were all on the table. Another question on the cards: what actually makes a fund manager investable? #GECAfrica #founders #SME

This afternoon at GEC+Africa, our founder @CatherineHYoung (also a Partner at @KnifeCap) joins a panel on the next decade of African VC: trends, exits and building fund champions. 15:30 at the @CTICC_Official, see you there! #Ecosystem #SMEgrowth #Investment #AfricanVC

Jonathan Ortmans, Founder and President of the @unleashingideas (GEN) is up. @GEN22OnSloane is proof of impact from our 2017 GEC. Kumii is evidence of impact from another. #Impact like this happens by actively creating opportunities. #SMEgrowth #Opportunities #GECAfrica

Acting Premier and Provincial Minister of the #WesternCape Department of Infrastructure, Tertuis Alfred Simmers, has taken the stage and his message is clear: Inclusion is in itself an economic #growth strategy. We hold the same philosophy for #SME growth. #GECAfrica

The day is underway and we have Noma Ngubane, CEO of Kumii, introducing the AI platform: an all-in-one AI platform to serve SMEs, bringing together the key #ecosystem players they need to engage with at each stage of #growth. Learn more: kumii.africa/ #GECAfrica

We're at the Cape Town International Convention Centre for day two of GEC+Africa 2026. What an inspiring start to the agenda today on the African Story. Looking forward to an exciting day! #GECAfrica #Funding #SME #Growth #Investment

This is the part of the work we love most! The founders. Give us founders willing to sit with those gaps for a day and brainstorm about where they are, and we are in our element. Great to see so many familiar faces today! #GECAfrica #founder #SME #Growth #Investment

In case you missed our session this morning at #GECAfrica: #Growth Before #Capital, here are some tips below: 💥 Deals rarely stall on the financial model 💥 Whoever is ready first, wins 💥 Say your business in one sentence. If you struggle with this, we can help! #GTM #SME