Africa's Largest Startup Campus
Powering The Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
At 22 On Sloane CPT Hub

Unlocking the Growth Potential of Deep Tech Innovation

Designed to take startups beyond just securing investment by providing the strategic foundation and market access needed to scale and grow sustainably. Through a structured, phased approach, the Build Programme guides founders from investment readiness to market expansion, operational scale, and long term success.

 

 

About Savant

Savant is a commercially-focused hardware technology incubator that provides bespoke business development support. Savant partners with highly skilled science and technology inventors for their start-up growth journey.
Savant brings unrivalled technology commercialisation know-how and experience to the South African start-up landscape. Savant offers bespoke commercialisation support to hardware technology inventors through long term, risk-based partnerships. Inventors stand to gain a streamlined journey from minimum viable product development to early market traction, both locally and internationally. Investors stand to gain early access to a pipeline of professionally de-risked technology companies to invest in.

The Startup Huddle event provides a platform for entrepreneurs to discover solutions to the challenges they face through purposeful engagement with a broad array of voices from the local community, who can also share their experiences.

 

Startups are given context about the topic at hand, which includes tools, tricks and techniques from experts. This can take up to 10min. Thereafter, they will be given 2-3 minutes to tell us about some of the challenges they have encountered in their business venture. Participants then get into small groups where they Huddle for a 10-minute -interactive activity. Each group selects a team member or two to share what they discussed. The Huddle will close off having equipped the techies with practical and value-add experience they can use in their startup journey.

Join us for a brief information session to learn how your startup can access equity-free funding, mentorship, and Google technologies, followed by a casual networking mixer with fellow founders and ecosystem leaders.

Join us for a brief information session to learn how your startup can access equity-free funding, mentorship, and Google technologies, followed by a casual networking mixer with fellow founders and ecosystem leaders.

Google for Startups Accelerator South Africa

Date : 12 August 2026

Time : 15:00 – 17:00

Location : 22 On Sloane, Bryanston, Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa, 2191

With just a few weeks to go, the Global Entrepreneurship Congress Africa (GEC+Africa) under the theme Connecting Africa carries the values of inclusion, unity, and collaboration that underpin our mission, to Connecting Africa. Through these values we condemn any acts of xenophobia or afrophobia and continue on our mission of connecting entrepreneurs, investors, policy makers and ecosystem enablers across the continent and the world at large.

With just a few weeks to go, the Global Entrepreneurship Congress Africa (GEC+Africa) under the theme Connecting Africa carries the values of inclusion, unity, and collaboration that underpin our mission, to Connecting Africa. Through these values we condemn any acts of xenophobia or afrophobia and continue on our mission of connecting entrepreneurs, investors, policy makers and ecosystem enablers across the continent and the world at large.

GEC+Africa 2026: Important Visa and Congress Update

Date : 16-17 September 2026

Time

Day 1: 08:00 – 17:00

Day 2: 08:30 – 22:00

Location : Cape Town International Convention Centre, Convention Square, 1 Lower Long St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8001