• Automotive
• Capital Equipment
• Rolling Stock Manufacturing
• Agro-Processing
• Food And Beverage
• ICT

The IDC Gauteng Regional Office have identified the following key areas of focus in terms of pipeline development, partnerships, and customer service.

• Work closely with our SBUs to strengthen the participation of SMEs in value chains by forging linkages between large IDC clients and SMEs in our portfolio, specifically to facilitate market access for existing IDC SMEs.
• Establish relationships with SME Trade Links as a vehicle to source potential fundable clients.
• Form partnerships with reputable business incubators for pipeline development.
• Establish and actively participate in investment-readiness workshops to ensure that SMEs receive the necessary assistance before applying for funding.
• Continuously strive to be customer centric by providing timeous feedback, advocating for efficiencies to improve customer journey.

1. To limit or minimize the frustrations from both financiers like the IDC and entrepreneurs/clients, it is important for clients to familiarize themselves with information requirements of financiers. This will eliminate the back-and-forth of requesting additional information and shorten the time taken to assess the funding enquiries.
2. Provide a succinct business plan that clearly articulates your company background, funding need, technical capability, revenue/sales drivers, and development impact.
3. Key for applicants to know and address in their business plans is – who will buy their products, why will they buy the products and how they will you get the products to the customers –  and most importantly, what, and how they will do it better than their  competitors. This offers financiers comfort around the entities ability to generate revenues/sales and profits to afford the loan.

1. In order to limit or minimize the frustrations from both financiers like the IDC and entrepreneurs/clients, it is important for clients to familiarize themselves with information requirements of financiers – this will eliminate the back-and-forth of requesting additional information and obviously will shorten the time it takes to assess the funding enquiries;
2. Provide a succinct business plan that clearly articulates your company background, funding need, technical capability, revenue/sales drivers and development impact.
3. Key for applicants to know and address in their business plans is – who will buy their products, why will they buy the products and how they will you get the products to the customers – and most importantly, what and how they will do it better than their competitors – this will help give financiers comfort around the ability to generate revenues/sales and profits to afford the loan