Grindstone Accelerator

The Grindstone Accelerator is an established structured entrepreneurship development programme that assists high-growth innovation-driven companies to become more sustainable and fundable.

Grindstone supplies 20 companies annually with knowledge, networks and funding readiness through growth measurement, gap analysis and deep interventions designed to build a foundation for growth, transfer skills, create relevant business networks and enable these companies to take advantage of market access opportunities. 

Business support resources and services will include elements of training, corporate advisory, coaching, mentorship and funding. Specific interventions for each company include doing a due diligence assessment, building a partner universe, developing pitch decks and teaser documents, financial modelling, intellectual property assessment, strategic and financial valuation as well as populating a data room. 

In addition to the Funding Readiness Course: Find-Make-Grow-Realise, there will be 6 x 1-day workshops over a 9-month period. That include the following modules and practical workshops. 

Strategy, People & Operations, Finance & Valuation, Brand & Marketing, Sales, Product, Legal & IP. 

Through the Grindstone Programme we form long-term partnerships with scale-up entrepreneurs for a shared upside.

Our Core Programme Partners include: SA SME Fund, Deloitte, Google for Start-ups.

Our Associated Partners include: Webber Wentzel, AWS, Hubspot, Microsoft for Start-ups, mmhmm. 

If you would like to apply to our next cohort or to partner with us chat to us today.