JOHANNESBURG PROGRAMME

Financial modeling 101 (a double-session on storytelling your finances)

11:00 – 12:45

Speaker: Neo Ratau, and Sahana Vaidya, Everest Ventures 

This practical financial modeling workshop will help you visualize and stress test your financial plan. The workshop will enable you to develop a powerful, practical, financial model for your key business decisions.

Finance de-mystified!

Tracks: IDEATION – INCUBATION – GROWTH

Preparing your business for funding (a double session on investment readiness)

11:00 – 12:45

Speaker: Darlene Menzies, Finfind

This session is designed to help you become investment ready. Bring your business model questions, your capital raising challenges, your growth & investment planning decisions to this practical workshop, which will help you get an overview of the finance available to you and how you might access it.

Tracks: IDEATION – INCUBATION – GROWTH

Your space to network

11:00 – 12:45

Use this space to share ideas and experience with other entrepreneurs!

Legal structures for social enterprises

11:00 – 11:45

Speaker: Tine Fisker Henriksen, Berthe Centre

Should I register my social enterprise as an NPO, for-profit organisation or a co-operative? How does this affect my fundraising abilities? How will it affect profit distribution? What are the tax implications? All these and other legal structure implications will be explored in this session.

Tracks: IDEATION – INCUBATION – GROWTH

Les us surprise you!

11:00 – 11:45

Speaker(s):  TBA

Tracks: IDEATION – INCUBATION – GROWTH

Financial modeling 101 CONTINUED...

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Preparing your business for funding CONTINUED...

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You space to network CONTINUED...

11:00 – 13:00

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Do we need to change how we think about funding?

12:00 – 12:45

Speaker: Dumisani Sibanda

The way we think about funding is wrong, according to Dumisani. In this session, you’ll be taken on a journey to change the way you think about funding.

Tracks: IDEATION – INCUBATION – GROWTH

Raising money from the crowd: A session on crowdfunding

12:00 – 12:45

Speaker: Catherine Du Plooy, BackaBuddy 

The crowd is there, but will they listen and more importantly, will they back you and your campaign. This session will give an overview of the phenomenal global growth of donations/rewards based crowdfunding and the top tipc for creating and running a successful campaign for your startup.

Tracks: IDEATION – INCUBATION

Who are South Africa's angel investors and what are they looking for?

14:00 – 14:45

Speaker: Abu Cassim, Ground Flr and Jozi Angels 

Join this exciting session for a practical introduction to angel investing, which will tell you all about where to find angels and how to approach them.

Tracks: INCUBATION – GROWTH

How to develop a viable business model

14:00 – 14:45

Speaker: McLean Sibanda, The Innovation Hub

In this session, McLean will discuss how to go about designing and developing a viable business model, joined by a few entrepreneurs from The Innovation Hub programmes who will share their business journeys.

Tracks: IDEATION – INCUBATION – GROWTH

Innovative finance lab

14:00 – 15:45

Facilitators: The Bertha Centre Innovative Finance team 

Tracks: IDEATION – INCUBATION – GROWTH

Convincing your first investor - lessons from a social investor

14:00 – 14:45

Speaker: Anthony Hall, Social Investment Africa 

Ant will share his experiences with early stage enterprises and give you an easy way to tell your story to investors. He will also provide insights into common challenges faced by early stage enterprises and how some have either solved or been stalled by them.

Tracks: IDEATION – INCUBATION – GROWTH

A new perspective on investment readiness

14:00 – 14:45

Speaker: Mzingaye Kahl, Shanduka Black Umbrellas

In this session, Mzingaye – Regional Director of SBU – will help you determine whether your business is ready to secure external funding and, if not, what steps it needs to take to get to a point where it can secure funding.

Tracks: INCUBATION – GROWTH

What's the business of a social business?

15:00 – 15:45

Speaker: Kerryn Krige, Network for Social Entrepreneurs at GIBS

This session introduces us to the stories of the new breed of social entrepreneurs working to solve social ills in SA. It is sure to leave you inspired so join Kerryn Krige, co-author of the book “The Disruptors – Social Entrepreneurs Reinventing Business and Society”, as she outlines the landscape of social entrepreneurship in SA.

Tracks: IDEATION – INCUBATION – GROWTH

What types of government funding are available for early-stage entrepreneurs? (double session)

15:00 – 15:45

Speaker: Lusapho Njenge, SEDA. Don Mashele, SEFA.

Should I register my social enterprise as an NPO, for-profit organisation or a co-operative? How does this affect my fundraising abilities? How will it affect profit distribution? What are the tax implications? All these and other legal structure implications will be explored in this session.

Tracks: IDEATION – INCUBATION – GROWTH

Innovative finance lab CONTINUED...

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Raising investment from the crowd: A session on crowdinvestment

15:00 – 15:45

Speaker: Patrick Schofield, Thundafund, BackaBuddy and Uprise Africa

Equity crowdfunding is a new and innovative channel through which entrepreneurs are raising capital and investors are being introduced to attractive de-risked opportunities. In SA, the recent 12J tax incentive structure has created augmented opportunities for investors to get excellent returns from early stage investments. Come and find out how you could leverage equity crowdfunding for your business. 

Tracks: INCUBATION – GROWTH

Ideation and incubation seed funding: Who/what/where... How?

15:00 – 15:45

Speaker: Edwell Gumbo, City of Joburg

Get insights into very early-stage funding – where to turn when you’re still working on the idea or just getting off the ground? What to think about and what to avoid?

Tracks: IDEATION – INCUBATION 

Demystifying the Supply Chain

16:00 – 16:45

Speaker: Elmarie Goosen, Consultant to Fetola 

Get supply chain-ready! In this session, Elmarie shares the principles and Best Practice to engage with Corporates, and practical guidance on how to build relationships with Corporate clients.

Tracks: INCUBATION – GROWTH

What types of government funding are available for early-stage entrepreneurs? CONTINUED...

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Your space to network

16:00 – 16:45

The South African impact investing and innovative finance landscape

16:00 – 16:45

Speaker: Tine Fisker Henriksen, Bertha Centre 

While social enterprises develop new ways of doing business, social investors are creating flexible financing solutions to help them grow. This session aims to help social entrepreneurs match their business model with the available funding streams.

Tracks: IDEATION – INCUBATION – GROWTH

Negotating with an investor: an overview of Structuring & Negotiating Term Sheets

16:00 – 16:45

Speaker: Kevin Blignaut, Edge Growth 

Term sheets de-mystified! The session will include a brief overview of the most common terms used in Preferred Equity term sheet. Key terms will be explained with an emphasis on how these terms would be negotiated to be either considered as either investor or entrepreneur favourable.

Tracks: IDEATION – INCUBATION – GROWTH