Black Umbrellas

Black Umbrellas is an enterprise and supplier development incubation organisation that partners with entrepreneurs, investors and communities, to drive an inclusive economic future by enabling the success of emerging SMEs.

We focus on developing qualifying businesses to a level where they can gain meaningful access to procurement, finance and networks and then facilitating access to these opportunities. While our programmes and platforms are available to any business at any stage of their development, our primary enabler is the Enterprise and Supplier Development requirements of the B-BBEE Codes of Good Practice.

Through our Enterprise Development Programme we develop qualifying businesses to a level where they are supply chain and finance ready. Our Non-Profit Company enables 100% black owned businesses which are unable to afford the programme to participate at no charge.

Our consultancy business, together with CGC Consulting, provides an end to end supplier development solution from strategic supply chain and procurement de-risking and optimisation to designing development roadmaps for existing and potential suppliers as well as the sourcing of suitable suppliers.

The Black Umbrellas Mianzo SMME ESD Debt Fund provides pre-invoice working capital finance to businesses receiving non-financial support from Black Umbrellas.

Black Umbrellas Payment Accelerator is a patented supply chain finance and invoice validation platform that provides businesses with access to the short-term finance solutions they need to grow.

We operate in a multi-stakeholder collaborative environment with the common purpose of achieving economic and social change through action, inspiration and support. To create a sustainable programme to harness and strengthen Africa’s entrepreneurs, Black Umbrellas works through a platform of co-operation between civil society, the private sector and government so that the correct resources, skills , support and opportunities are in place to support development at all levels.