Intelligent Capital is an entrepreneurship development organization founded with the belief that aspiring and early stage entrepreneurs need more than just financial capital to launch and scale their businesses. While securing early-stage investment can be an important catalyst for startups, we recognize that building sustainable businesses is a multifaceted endeavour.
At Intelligent Capital, we connect the dots. We take an integrated approach to nurturing businesses which enables access to human capital, social capital, and intellectual capital as well as positioning them to access appropriate financial capital. In addition to working on initiative that directly support individual business leaders and young companies, we are committed to building a robust and dynamic ecosystem for African entrepreneurs to grow and thrive.
We identify and develop entrepreneurial talent, by supporting experienced professionals to transition from the corporate world into entrepreneurship. Harnessing their technical skills and management experience to cultivate a new generation of pioneering business leaders.
We facilitate interactions between early-stage investors and entrepreneurs to improve awareness of funding requirements and the fundraising process and build credibility and trust across both sides of the investment table.
We synthesize insights on high-growth sectors and dynamic consumer segments to identify attractive market opportunities that can be capitalized on, as well as gaps and pain points that can be addressed with innovative solutions.
We work with stakeholders in the public and private sector to strengthen the entrepreneurial ecosystem by establishing transparent, productive relationships and networks between key players in the African SME landscape.
