Turning entrepreneurs into better business people

Business incubation for turning Cleantech entrepreneurs into even more successful business people.

Sarebi has built a proven track record as the leading cleantech incubator, supporting small and medium enterprises in the energy efficiency, renewable energy and circular economies.

Regardless of what stage your business is in – from idea or concept design, to early-stage startups or growth acceleration – Sarebi is the business incubation service provider of choice for helping you start and grow through a comprehensive package of business and operational support services.

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We currently do not offer funding for startups or pre-revenue stage businesses. Our workshops and coaching direct you towards articulating a clear value proposition and a bankable business model.

Our acceleration program for trading businesses assists your bankability by ensuring that your financials and governance are in place, and that you have strong operational systems to support successful funding applications. Through our individual financial coaching sessions, we will help you identify and apply for the right type of funding. Sarebi builds viable businesses that have credibility and real bankability.

Sarebi. The business incubator that makes a difference.

At Sarebi, our mission is to be the business incubator of choice for entrepreneurs wanting to make a difference to the world. We help you build a viable business model and provide you with the tools to successfully commercialize it. We have the skills, the capacity, the digital tools and the programs to really help you grow your business further.

Pricing & Services

How the Sarebi program works

Want to turn your idea from possible to probable? Or your infant enterprise from probable to profitable? At Sarebi, you’ll benefit from a wealth of cleantech knowledge, market intelligence, know-how and tangible operational support.

The Sarebi incubation programs help you to:

START

Solve problems worth solving

Many inventors create gadgets that solve problems nobody has ever heard of. For aspirant entrepreneurs (Ideators) with great ideas, our Solve-My-Problem workshop teaches you how to clearly define and articulate the problem you are solving; to define your core value proposition; to define your markets and ideal customers; to develop a financial model; and to test the financial feasibility of your business idea.

START

Sell to the right customer

Trying to sell a great idea to the wrong customer is a futile exercise. Our Product-Market-Fit workshop helps you understand the difference between target market, addressable market, and your serviceable market. Accurately defining the right market with a particular problem allows you to tailor-make solutions for specific market segments.

START

BUILD

Get trading on the right foot

Building a cashflow analysis on guess work, gut feel, or intuition is a recipe for disaster. Too many startups fail because they make assumptions about the cost of doing business, producing a commodity, or servicing a particular market.
Our 1-2-3 Trade workshop provides the training to learn how to construct a proper budget, how to do bills of materials, how to cost for a service and how to calculate a meaningful breakeven point. All of this helps you understand how many widgets you need to sell to keep the doors open.

BUILD

Build strong operational systems

Sarebi works both in and on your business, allowing you to focus on your customers and sales pipeline by alleviating administration, for example:

Managing your governance, compliance, and annual returns
Ensuring that you have up-to-date and accurate management accounts
Calculating and managing your payroll on your behalf to employees
Calculating your tax and making 3rd party payments on your behalf to SARS
Supporting you with industrial relations, keeping you away from the CCMA
Managing your back-office with a suite of digital cloud-based tools for productivity and data applications
Helping you host, manage, and maintain websites and marketing campaigns

BUILD

GROW

Develop data-driven business strategies

Our back-end systems are cloud-based, which aids us to generate and analyse your data. Whether it is payroll or financial-focussed, marketing campaigns or customer trends; we help you use the data in your business to remove the guesswork from developing customer and product strategies. We are implementation partners for Google Workspace, Google Cloud, Odoo ERP, Sage Accounting, Syft Analytics, and more.

GROW

SCALE

Scale your business

With a strong value proposition, a viable business model, and active operational systems that generate real-time management data, Sarebi plays an active role in “de-risking” a business as a prospective investment target for a venture investor, a capital investor, bank, or an institutional investor.

SCALE

Who qualifies to work with Sarebi?

Entrepreneurs who know their trade (you must prove that you have sufficient industry experience and technical knowledge).

Passionate, committed innovators, who are serious about growing a scalable business that solves real problems.

Entrepreneurs who are looking to solve a problem in the green or circular economy. For example, entrepreneurs who operate a business in the energy efficiency, clean energy generation, waste recycling or upcycling, sustainable agriculture, water preservation, and all associated activities or fields.

Go-getters with the tenacity and grit to stick it out through tough times and who are willing to take a real risk in starting a sustainable business.

Entrepreneurs who have some ‘skin in the game’: show us you have made a real investment in your idea or business.

Who does Sarebi work with?

Entrepreneurs that are serious about starting a scalable business, through a supportive, long-term partnership.

Trading entrepreneurs who are looking to scale their business through implementing strong operational support systems

Entrepreneurs who are looking to solve a problem in the green or circular economy. For example, entrepreneurs who operate a business in the energy efficiency, clean energy generation, waste recycling or upcycling, sustainable agriculture, water preservation, and all associated activities or fields.

Entrepreneurs who provide services to the communities affected by, or developers of, IPP projects.

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GROW your Business

For entrepreneurs who are trading and looking to grow their business, Sarebi offers tangible, operational support, structured as outsourcing, at an affordable cost.

Grow

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Partner with Us

Corporate partners and entrepreneurs can partner with us to progress their supplier development programs.

Partner

Orion

“Sarebi treated us all with dignity and patience while a comfortable platform for discussions was created right from the start.”

Hannl Cronje, CEO

PSI Molekane

“Sarebi provided a safe, nurturing and supportive environment to take a business concept and apply real- world business principles to it.”

Dr Bridget A Johnsen BVSc[Pret] MS[U.S.A.],
Managing Director

Gas Viper

“It is our opinion that the work Sarebi is doing is of tremendous value to our company and that Sarebi really know how to provide relevant support to our organisation.” Stephan Vermaak, Director