Catalysing Growth
Growing together
Stimulus Africa more commonly known as Stimulus; is an enterprise development, consultancy firm operating in Southern Africa with offices in Zimbabwe and Malawi, established in 2011.
Stimulus designs and implements programmes aimed at building capacity in start-up, micro, small and medium sized enterprises (MSME’s) through entrepreneurship training & coaching, business services, mentorship and access to markets and smart finance.
Our ethos
- Excellence
- Collaboration
- Equality
- Creativity
- Innovation
- Sustainability
To be a catalyst for economic growth by unlocking the potential of Africa’s entrepreneurs to scale businesses and create jobs through enterprise development strategies and support.
To drive sustainable economic growth through the scaling of high impact entrepreneurial enterprises utilising contextualised business development tools, enterprise innovation and digital transformation.
Our context
Highly informal economy characterised by many small businesses needing mentorship and other business services
Difficult operating environment but with multiple opportunities for problem solving.
Constrained / poor access to finance MSME’s
Poor access to markets, limited networks. Related to poor contextualisation in product development.
High number of graduates without access jobs/work experience; Entrepreneurial skills lacking.
Poor access to information | useable data for MSME’s
Our Approach
Leaning on almost a decade of experience supporting entrepreneurs and their enterprise across Southern Africa; Stimulus has formulated an enterprise development model for enterprise development in our context.
- Enterprise Innovation
- Sustainable Business
- Smart Finance
- Digital Transformation
- Creative Economy
Our Reach
Stimulus’ focus is on building enterprise development programmes in pre-emerging markets working with various partners delivering enterprise development solutions across Southern Africa.
Stimulus concentrates its work in Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia , South Africa and Botswana.
Our Clients & Partners
Work With Us!
If you are a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Foundation or a Corporate company seeking to impact value chains or communities through enterprise development interventions, we would like to partner with you.
If you are a specialist in your field and you believe you can add value to the work we do in providing business services support and capacity development to entrepreneurs and their enterprises; you can register your interest in becoming a Perspectives Consultant here: