Our Businesses
At Innovation City we accelerate innovation and your business bottom line by bringing together over R440Bn worth of innovative corporates, over R4bn worth of venture funding, and the most innovative scale-up and start-up businesses.
Big players like Experian. MTN, PEPKOR, Old Mutual (NEXT176) and ShopriteX trust Innovation City to help deliver business value.
Story Design Academy
The Story Design Academy is not fluffy, it means business.
Through understanding how your business interacts with your customers, we use organisational redesign to create a business that positively impacts your customers.
We transform existing marketing and branding skills inside your business, into storytelling units which focus on sharing the customer lives you have positively impacted.
Launch: Q1 2025 Los Angeles and Cape Town.
Innovate Africa is a KKIH-owned media business, whose purpose is to highlight innovative businesses impacting lives in Africa while connecting those businesses to opportunities.
Innovate Africa partners with Arena Media Holdings. The media reach is over 6 million unique monthly visitors to Business Day TV, DispatchLive, SowetanLive, and TimesLive, in South Africa.
The Innovate Africa partnership with African super-app Ayoba has a continent-wide reach of 34million people.
The business exists for two reasons:
1. To scale African innovation solutions to Europe via Ireland, and to bring European solutions to Africa.
2. To ensure that Europe has access to African innovation talent, while making sure that the financial results of this value creation help build Africa as well