Join the SHEshisa Women in Business Accelerator Program (South Africa)

Deadline: 13 June 2025

SHEshisa Is Calling! Empowering Female Founders in eThekwini to Scale with Innovate Durban, SHEshisa is a 6-month, hybrid accelerator designed to support and scale women-owned businesses through the power of technology and innovation.

SHEshisa (loosely translated as ‘Accelerate’) is a sector agnostic accelerator programme designed to support female founders in and around Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal. SHEshisa Accelerator has been carefully designed to provide a pro-active and safe learning space for female founders to innovate, adopt technology, enhance business skills and confidence and create new connections.

Pillars

SHEshisa addresses THREE pillars of female founder support:
- The Woman
  - Supporting the human behind the business to achieve personal growth on various levels.
- Her Business
  - Training, tools and skills to develop her business innovation, operations and profit.
- Her Community
  - Expanding her professional and support network while enabling her to manage relationships and positively influence those around her.

Eligibility Criteria

To qualify for participation, businesses must meet the following criteria:
- Their business has been operating between 1 – 5 years.
- Business enabled by technology OR business can be pivoted to enable technology.
- Business annual turnover less than ZAR 1m.
- Business that is innovative in its model OR a business that is open to applying innovation to their business model.
- Business based and actively operating in Kwa-Zulu Natal. Needs to be able to attend in-person sessions and events in Durban.

For more information, visit Innovate Durban.