What we do
Seda collaborates with many ecosystem stakeholders and allocates significant resources to promote entrepreneurship and the growth of Small, Medium, and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) throughout the nation. With 54 branches, 46 co-location locations, and 122 incubators, Seda has the largest office network in the nation.
Seda branches provide offerings that assist businesses in various phases of their life cycle.
Seda Business Talk - Focuses on clients who want information on starting a business.
Assistance Provided:
Business Advice and Information
Small Enterprise Training
Business Registration
Seda Business Start - Provides tools and techniques for clients who are ready to start a business and want assistance and direction. Assistance Provided:
Business Planning
Business Counselling
Facilitation of Access to Finance
Business Support
Seda Business Build - Offerings focusing on clients who want skills to sustain and strengthen their businesses.
Assistance Provided:
Capacity Building Systems
Mentorship
Tender Advice / Procurement
Export Readiness
Franchising
Seda Business Grow – Offerings focusing on clients who want to grow their businesses and expand nationally and internationally.
Assistance Provided:
Business Systems Development
Cooperative Support
Growth Strategies
Training - In addition, Seda provides training courses to support entrepreneurial success. Seda’s courses empower small business owners with the necessary skills to enable them to take their businesses to greater heights. Entrepreneurs learn:
How to market their business effectively.
The importance of building a reputable business profile as a marketing tool.
How to maintain financial records and develop their business plans.
How to write reports
SEDA TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMME
The Seda Technology Programme was created as a special programme to manage different business incubators, facilitate technology transfer and quality interventions. They do the following:
Increase accessibility to, and the utility of, technologies and management support for SMMEs through structured platforms such as technology business centres.
Facilitate the acquisition and transfer of technology to SMMEs, particularly those operating in the second economy.
Promote the use of quality and standards by SMMEs Improve SMMEs’ performance and productivity.
Improve SMMEs’ competitiveness.
Promote entrepreneurial activity and the success of entrepreneurs.
Reduce the failure rate of SMMEs.
They have the following units:
Incubation
The Incubation unit is designed to strengthen technology commercialization and harness the entrepreneurship of the technology community in South Africa.
Quality and Standards
The Quality and Standards unit ensures that small businesses have access to quality control and assessment processes and provides training and access to accreditation and certifications.
Technology Transfer
The Objective of the Technology Transfer Unit is to promote and facilitate the transfer of technology, which is appropriate, effective and competitive to small enterprises.