Thought Leadership

Leading business incubator Raizcorp has called on big corporates to use their enterprise and supplier development (ESD) budgets to rejuvenate the South African small business sector gripped by COVID-19. Raizcorp’s head of sales, Dylan Baxter, said giving small businesses the opportunity to become part of larger companies’ supply chains will help the sector to recover […]

Raizcorp has been developing and growing small businesses for almost two decades now and has worked with numerous large corporate companies on their enterprise and supplier development strategies. Over time, we have seen that corporate supplier development programmes often do not achieve the expected results owing to a number of issues relating to the companies’

When you take a township entrepreneur from nothing to something, that’s impact. When you help a business scale from three employees to 10, that’s impact. When you enable a company to successfully navigate the red tape around procurement, that’s impact. When your interventions result in notable pro-small business mindset shift within a large corporate, that’s

In the early years, equity capital had consequences because other stakeholders viewed the shareholders as the primary stakeholder. This was exacerbated by Milton Friedman’s doctrine in the 1970s that the sole purpose of the company was to make profit without deception. The consequence was that the 20th century was one of unsustainable development. By 1995

For green Small and Growing Businesses (SGBs), access to finance is one of the key constraints in scaling innovative business models. Investors – even those with the intention and mandate to support smaller deals – consider these early stage businesses to be risky. The Green Outcomes Fund (GOF) is a first of its kind structure