Spotlighting the entrepreneurial ecosystems of business schools in Africa.
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Fireside chat themed event to open applications to a new venture building cohort.
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Founders, co-builders, and mentors profile on the platform.
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Venture builds are tracked, matched to talent, assessed and documented.
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Founders are selected for a pitch event hosted by a business school.
Each cohort opens with a Launch theme, then moves into Pitch — with gallery, video, and sponsors nested under the school.
#2026_Q2 · Business school cohort
UCT Graduate School of Business
A fireside-chat themed event that opens applications to a new venture-building cohort. Meet the studio, hear why we build inside business schools, and apply.
Virtual fireside · ecosystem launch
Information video
Video TBA
Wed, 12 Aug 2026
Founders pitched live at UCT Graduate School of Business — media on the floor, talent in the room, and a R100,000 studio award for Andries Du Toit.
Information video
Video TBA
Event sponsors
Sponsors for this cohort get produced, distribution-ready story through 4|>lay's media layer.
We're building toward a documentary series where selected ventures become episodes — hyper-scale storytelling that turns business school pitch nights into lasting distribution. It's a key reason sponsors and schools host with us.
Want to host or sponsor a cohort at a business school
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