Cape Town Impact Accelerator

Get $15K to accelerate your startup's growth and make a lasting impact

Join a 2-week in-person Bootcamp in Cape Town to get strategic clarity, chart your growth roadmap, and fundraise effectively. Apply proven frameworks using 30+ startup AI agents to refine your product, customer acquisition strategy, business model, pitch deck, and fundraising strategy. Learn directly from successful startups, investors, and leaders at innovation hubs such as Yoco, LULA, Pineapple, and StartupBootcamp Afritech, amongst others. Pitch your startup to investors, mentors, and innovators at Demo Day in Cape Town.

Your journey doesn’t end there - continue with 3 months of weekly online check-ins to achieve your milestones. Get full access to 12 months of the Global Innovators Community, an AI-powered learning platform with mentorship, investor insights, and a global founder network to support your journey.

Key Features

Proven Entrepreneurship Frameworks

Apply MIT's 'Disciplined Entrepreneurship', Google Venture's 'Sprint', HubSpot's 'Loop' and 'Theory of Change' frameworks and more to maximize your chances of success.

Startup AI Agents to drive your growth

Leverage 30+ AI agents plus custom-built agents tailored to your startup, to get strategic clarity, streamline operations and fundraise effectively.

Expert Mentorship and Innovation Hub Visits

Learn from top mentors, investors, and work with BonBillo experts to refine your product, customer acquisition strategy, business model, investor pitch, and fundraising strategy. Gain on-the-ground insights from visits to successful founders, investors, and corporate innovation leaders.

Collaborate, Partner, and Grow Together

Build lasting friendships with your cohort of ambitious, mission-driven founders. Learn, work, and grow alongside your peers in a vibrant office space with amenities at the Old Foundry, Ideas Cartel, and Greenpoint.

South Africa
Excursions and Safari

Bond with your cohort of founders through cultural experiences in Bali and Singapore. Understand and appreciate South Africa through excursions to the Townships, Robben Island, Table Mountain, Cape Point and Boulders Beach. Experience the Aquila Safari with the Big Five on show.

Demo Day

Pitch your startup to a curated audience of investors, mentors, and partners at Demo Day in Cape Town. Get direct feedback from investors and open doors to fundraising and partnership opportunities.

Weekly Check-Ins & Global Innovators Community

Stay on track with 3 months of weekly check-ins to hit your growth and fundraising milestones. Keep building momentum with 12 months of access to the Global Innovators Community, an AI-powered learning platform where founders share learnings, celebrate wins, and benefit from mentorship, investor insights, and global events.

Partner Perks

Get $50,000+ in partner perks from HubSpot for Startups, AWS, Google Cloud for Startups Program, Carta, and Customer Camp to extend your runway and scale smarter.

Cape Town Impact Bootcamp January 2020 Demo Day

Visit to Robben Island where Nelson Mandela spent 18 of his 27 years in prison before the fall of apartheid

Old Foundry at Ideas Cartel, Green Point, Cape Town

Teams working at Ideas Cartels

Site visit to Yoco, a leading Fintech startup, with Bradley Wattrus, Co-Founder and CFO, sharing his learnings

Matthew Smith, Co-Founder at Pineapple, a leading Insure-tech startup, sharing his journey

Experience the Aquila Safari with the Big Five on show

Excursion to Cape Point

Trek up Lions Head

Visit to Boulders Beach

Dinner at Green Point, Cape Town

Day 1 - 2 - Participants arrive

Participants arrive and check in to their residence.

Day 3 - 4 - Program Introduction, Visit to the Constantia Vineyards

Program orientation and introduction.

Excursion to the stunning Constantia Vineyards.

Day 5 - 6 - Select a Problem and Identify your Target Customer

Apply “Disciplined Entrepreneurship” and “Sprint” frameworks to Select a Problem and Identify your Target Customer.

Day 7 - 8 - Design your Solution

Apply “Sprint” to design and test your solutions with customers and “Disciplined Entrepreneurship” to define your value proposition, core and competitive positioning.

Day 9 - Design your Customer Acquisition Strategy

Design your go-to-market and customer acquisition strategy.

Day 10 - 11 - Tours of Robben Island, Cape Point, Boulders Beach and Table Mountain

Excursion to Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela spent 18 of his 27 years in prison before the fall of apartheid.

Tour of Cape Town’s stunning attractions including Cape Point, Boulders Beach with its colony of African Penguins and Table Mountain.

Day 12 - 13 - Design your Business Model, Social Impact and Pitch

Design your business model to maximize value creation for customers and align timing of value creation to your payouts.

Develop your Theory of Change with clear impact metrics to communicate your social impact with all stakeholders.

Design your pitch to the local innovation community.

Day 14 - Demo Day Pitches

Pitch your solution to the local innovation community in Cape Town.

Day 15 - Aquila Safari

The Aquila Safari, a two-hour drive from Cape Town, is an incredible experience with the Big Five on show.

What participants say?

Jabulani Kunene
Software Engineer, ParkUpp

The one thing I took away from Bonbillos incredible program is my new found confidence in global thinking... Throughout the whole program I was constantly surprised at how much I was learning. Proof that there is no one standard way to become a successful entrepreneur.