Accelerators.
Launchpads that move founders from idea to scale, with capital, capability and market access engineered around them.
TODAY → RETAIL & FOOD SECURITY
TOMORROW → AI · BIOTECH · SPACETECH · THE NEXT FRONTIER
Mzansi Black Business Accelerator
MBBA
There's a gap where promising businesses stall: too big for micro-grants, too small for traditional finance. The missing middle. The MBBA closes it.
We back 50 high-potential entrepreneurs building in foodservice and vending, combining hands-on capability building, blended finance, and real routes to market through serious corporate partners.
The MBBA is delivered with partners of genuine calibre, bringing capital, capability and market access to the table.
PepsiCo Foundation
Kgodiso Development Fund
Foodlern SETA
PARTNER LOGO LOCKUPS TO BE PLACED ON SUPPLY.
Three phases. One trajectory.
A sequenced build: capability first, then capital, then the market connections that turn a business into a fixture.
Wraparound Services
Mentorship, compliance, financial systems and operational capability: the foundations a venture needs to be fundable.
Blended Finance
Grant and debt structured together to de-risk growth: capital matched to the realities of the missing middle.
Market Access
Routes to revenue through corporate partners, supply agreements and live placement of vending and foodservice assets.
Applying or partnering on the MBBA?
Talk to the programme team directly.
Retail today. Frontier tomorrow.
Food security is where we start, not where we stop. The same engine (capability, capital, market access) is built to launch founders into the industries that will define Africa's next century.
NEW PROGRAMMES CAN BECOME “ACTIVE” ALONGSIDE THE MBBA.