Accelerating Impact Businesses
Impact Amplifier offers a range of acceleration and training programmes focused on getting impact businesses ready for investment.
Impact Amplifier has developed various investment readiness models to support social enterprises. It delivers acceleration services directly as well as through its unique white labelled online platform, Impact OS, for other incubators and accelerators to use.
Direct Acceleration
Delivered either as a group-based process or with individual businesses, Impact Amplifier’s investment readiness accelerators are typically 3-12 months in duration, covering:
- Impact Case – problem, solution, metrics;
- Market Identification – customer segmentation and sizing;
- Market Access – sales, distribution, competition, and value proposition;
- Strategic growth planning;
- Finance – modelling and long-term planning; and
- Pitching – investment documents and presentations.
The structure of each accelerator is designed to suit the unique needs of our clients, but generally includes some combination of lectures, individual coaching, group discussions, webinars, videos, and homework assignments. The end result is to get the participants ready to successfully solicit the capital needed to scale.
After hosting over 12 acceleration programmes for social enterprises, Impact Amplifier recognised the acute need for an online platform to both ensure the quality and consistency of content, but also accessibility. Trading under the brand Impact-OS, Impact Amplifier developed an end-to-end platform-based solution for incubators and accelerators to deliver investment readiness training, monitoring and evaluation, network management and impact assessments.
This platform provides a module-by-module approach to investment readiness where entrepreneurs can self-study or be facilitated through the process with a coach. Its flexibility caters to a broad spectrum of business development needs and pre-existing skills using a combination of videos, webinars, and step-by-step instructions through the process.
The structure of each accelerator is designed to suit the unique needs of our clients, but generally includes some combination of lectures, individual coaching, group discussions, webinars, videos, and homework assignments. The end result is to get the participants ready to successfully solicit the capital needed to scale.
We invite Investors and Enterprise Support Organisations looking to build their investment readiness capacity to try the first module of our 9-module Investment Readiness Course, free. Try it, free
Training and Workshops
Beyond its accelerators and virtual platform, Impact Amplifier also offers workshops on: the various aspects of the investment readiness process; building social enterprise ecosystems; impact investment; ethical supply chain creation; impact assessments; and how to build commercial solutions to social and environmental challenges.
Recent work
Advancing Regenerative Agriculture in South Africa
Africa Online Safety Platform
Assessing Impact Of Climate Change Businesses
Bridges For Music Academy Assessment
Building Resilience and Impact Assessments
Capacity Building Programme For Entrepreneurs and Intermediaries
Coffee Farming Ecosystem Research
Ethical Supply Chain and Impact Assessment: South African Design
Investment Readiness Programme for Social Entrepreneurs and Inclusive Businesses
Online Investment Readiness – Future Females
Online Investment Readiness – Sahara and Leap Africa
Scaling Climate Adaptation Businesses
More Services We Offer
Fund Management for Impact Businesses
Impact Amplifier manages various funds to support high growth impact businesses.
Impact Strategy and Measurement for Large Companies and Institutions
Impact Amplifier supports high growth impact businesses to access funding from both local and international investors.
Ecosystem Solutions for the Impact Economy
The “Impact Economy” is comprised of multiple businesses and organisations across a broad spectrum of sectors.