Brillianaire Seeks To Help Entrepreneurs Grow Their Businesses. Brillianaire is a boutique project management and advisory firm specialising in early stage technology investment and entrepreneurship development. The company supports impact investors and start-ups/ SMMEs that are passionate about solving Africa’s problems.
The company describes itself as impact catalysts as it enables entrepreneurs to launch enduring companies that are supply chain competitive and venture capital investment ready. It collaborates with clients to design and implement entrepreneurship development projects that accelerate the commercialisation and market growth of small growing businesses.
The company was founded in 2008 by Octavius Phukubye, with the aim of focusing on enterprise development venture creation entrepreneurship development innovation management incubation support supplier development accelerator support impact investment venture investing venture capital & private equity
“Entrepreneurship is the answer to the worrisome economic challenges facing Africa today, including job creation, income inequality, human capital development, regulation, poverty, and inclusion but hidden in all this chaos, is innovation. Black entrepreneurs are incredibly talented and are leading in building competitive solutions using innovative technology capabilities such as AI and machine learning to solve health, agriculture, and enterprise problems.” said Phukubye in an interview with Sage.
The company helps clients with the Enterprise and Supplier Development Programme design, process reengineering and implementation support; Pre-investment due diligence and investment readiness diagnosis and Commercialisation and business development support. It also has an Acceleration and incubation support Programme design, strategy and project implementation; Portfolio management and investment analysis and Commercialisation and go-to-market development. It also provides Venture partnerships, tailored growth strategy, investment readiness and business development support. The company also assists with Customer research and demand insights development; Business management skills training; Investor report preparation and investment proposal structuring for its clients.
Firm in their belief that collaboration is the new innovation; the company has facilitated the partnership between Allan Gray Orbis Foundation and Sage to sponsor five SMMEs with a 1 year subscription of Safe Business Cloud Accounting Start Package. The company has managed to secure clients such as Standard Bank, ABinBev, Law Society of South Africa, BMF and Inseta.
