French South African Tech Labs
FSAT Labs is an incubator and accelerator for French and African startups in Cape Town, South Africa.
At FSAT Labs, we are passionate about helping startups grow their businesses, while simultaneously developing ongoing relationships between the French and South African technology ecosystems.
Starting a startup?
Our pre-incubation program is a 4 week self help program that helps aspiring founders from day zero to validating the idea and taking the step to become an entrepreneur.
Growing your startup?
Our 6 month incubation program helps existing founders grow their startup by providing infrastructure, network, coaching and content to help the founders fast track progress.
Launching in South Africa?
Our soft-landing programme helps European startups establish their operations in South Africa. The program offers internationalisation training, administrative support, networking and infrastructure.
The spaces we operate from
Our facilities and way of working.
Co-working space
Our co-working space in Century City features 20 hot-desks to be used by entrepreneurs part of our incubation program or part of the alumni network.
Online
We engage and collaborate with our founders online working through content, providing convenience to work from wherever there is an internet connection.
Wherever you are at
We incubate founders from across South Africa and soon beyond. Our online content and tools allow us to support you wherever you are based.
Our partners
Our network of support contributes greatly to the value we add to our founders and clients.
Methys is a multinational consulting and digital services firm. Methys provides pro-bono technical and design skills to FSAT Labs and its startups. In addition, Methys uses its network within the ecosystem to benefit our innovation efforts.
The Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA) is a government organisation within the Department of Small Business. SEDA provides funding for our early stage incubation program as well as small business support for our startups.
The Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) is a government department of the Department of Higher Education, Science and Technology. As a TIA partner, FSAT Labs manages to do the application and disbursement process of seed fund grants.
Other partners and clients in our network include
Stories about startups
Read some of the stories of our journey in helping high potential founders build their businesses.
We love to share as we learn and here you can find our learnings, info on what’s been happening as well as details of upcoming events.
