What We Do
We offer various forms of support tailored to match our entrepreneurs’ specific requirements to enable them to be sustainable and to grow.
Target Market
We offer support to Allan Gray Fellows to help them realise a responsible business. We also empower social entrepreneurs to enable positive change.
Allan Gray Fellows
Benefits
- End-to-end business support, from idea to scale-up and beyond
- Access to patient capital needed to realise a high-impact business
- Access to non-financial support
Unemployment is one of the greatest challenges facing our country. E Squared aims to address this challenge by helping Allan Gray Fellows who share our vision, to establish and grow responsible businesses. We offer bespoke support, from idea to acceleration and beyond to Allan Gray Fellows.
Engagement Models
Individuals have the power to reshape the world for the better. As partners, we want to empower these vision-aligned individuals to create environments that have the most meaningful impact.
Our partnership will include providing patient capital as well as ongoing business support
Our Start-up Challenge Award helps individuals and businesses that are often not yet fully established and do not qualify for traditional funding.
Our accelerator programme is an intensive full-time programme to grow your existing business.
Our Entrepreneurs
Anim Naturals
Seed
ANiM Naturals is a Cape Town-based cosmetics company that manufactures natural hair and skincare products made from sustainably sourced ingredients from across the African continent.
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Growth
Infinity Partners is a 100% Black-owned company jointly held by investor E-Squared Investments and Suzie Nkambule, who led the successful turnaround of Aveng Water for the past three years.
HouseME
Seed
HouseME is a technology platform that connects verified landlords and quality, creditworthy tenants, through a unique auction mechanism. They also guarantee rentals for landlords.
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