The Programme

As Bafokeng, we have long been innovators, builders, and visionaries. In the words of Kgosi Leruo Molotlegi, “It is our tradition to innovate.”

THE BAFOKENG FOUNDRY PROGRAMME

how you benefit

The Bafokeng Foundry is a 6 month tech-oriented programme for both startups and established businesses from the Royal Bafokeng Nation.

BUILD YOUR IDEAS

Acquire the tools and frameworks linked to the innovation process and successfully build your ideas into businesses of the future.

Acquire Skills

Acquire the practical skills that will always help you to continuously innovate, and how to translate those skills into a competitive advantage.

Develop new ideas

Practically develop new tech-enabled ideas and begin transitioning them into commercially viable business ideas.

Pitch to investors

Get your business (idea) to a point where you can pitch to investors for prospective investment.

Programme Dimensions

DESIGN THINKING

Practically learn and apply a unique problem-solving approach that allows entrepreneurs to look at things through their customers' eyes while figuring out innovative solutions for them. This approach is used by some of the most innovative start-ups, companies and entrepreneurs globally.

LEAN START-UP

Learn and use a business growth method that guides entrepreneurs to build the right product or service for their customers using experimentation, data analysis and feedback loops.

BUSINESS MODEL CANVAS

Develop different ways to transform your innovative idea into a commercially scalable business model.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (IP)

Identify and integrate the applicable IP framework to protect your business idea in anticipation of growth and scale.

ONLINE GROWTH CONTENT

Broaden your understanding of concepts in your own time with an extensive composition of online activities, videos, articles and podcasts.

VENTURE SPECIALISTS

Engage with industry and subject matter specialists to advise, add depth to your business idea, and map out market-commercialization prospects.

PROTOTYPING

Design an early version of your tech idea that prospective customers or investors can either visualize or engage with.

PITCHING

Prepare pitch presentation for prospective investors.