Jasiri Talent Investor Programme for South African Entrepreneurs 2025

The Jasiri Talent Investor programme is dedicated to discovering and investing in promising entrepreneurs with the potential to establish high-impact businesses. It’s a fully funded 13 month programme that takes a comprehensive, long-term approach to nurture entrepreneurs. The programme offers fellows the time and resources needed to identify Market-Creating Innovations and achieve product-market fit.
 
Jasiri employs a competency-based approach to identify and nurture entrepreneurs, emphasizing the need for patient and comprehensive support to address their challenges and developmental needs. The programme’s main objective is to remove systemic barriers that impede entrepreneurs’ progress and allow them to focus on the venture creation process. It’s structured to eliminate hindrances at the individual, team, business, and financial levels, creating a supportive environment for entrepreneurial success.

The Talent Investor is a well-funded programme tailored to specific regions. It uses a competency-based approach to nurture entrepreneurs. The programme consists of essential activities and a framework that connects specific goals with the support needed to overcome obstacles that can hinder the creation of new businesses. The programme also facilitates the collaboration of selected Fellows with like-minded co-founders, ensuring these teams have the skills to find and create Market-Creating Innovations.

The Talent Investor consists of six key stages:

• Jasiri JumpStart
• Team Formation
• Customer Discovery
• Problem Validation
• Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
• Venture Creation

• Table of Content
• About JASIRI
• Jasiri Talent Investor Programme
• Aim and Benefits of Jasiri Talent Investor Programme
• Requirements for Jasiri Talent Investor Programme Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About JASIRI

JASIRI is supported by the Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropy. Allan Gray founded an investment management firm of the same name in 1973. Allan Gray’s client-centric, long-term investment approach has seen the company grow into one of the largest of its kind on the continent. Recently , the Gray family endowed their controlling interest in the firm to the Allan & Gill Gray Foundation in order to make a positive contribution to the common good. The Philanthropy is convinced that the biggest challenge facing the continent is youth unemployment, and that focused support of entrepreneurs... continue reading

Jasiri Talent Investor Programme

Application Deadline	25 Jul 2025
Country to study	South Africa
Type	Entrepreneurs
Sponsor	JASIRI
Gender	Men and Women

Aim and Benefits of Jasiri Talent Investor Programme

• Flight and/or transportation from their current place of residence to the Residential Site in  Cape Town.
• A monthly stipend 
• In support of sustainability, allowing us to continue to invest in high potential individuals like you, Jasiri will take a 5% equity stake in all ventures launched out of the program. Jasiri is a non profit organization.

Requirements for Jasiri Talent Investor Programme Qualification

• You are determined and dedicated to creating a new and innovative business with potential for rapid growth.
• You are able to identify gaps and recognize opportunities in any sector of interest.
• You have a history of achievement, problem solving and value creation wherever you have focused your attention.
• You are highly informed and knowledgeable in your professional field or area of expertise.
• You are a team player, open to meet and build ventures from scratch with equally ambitious co-founders within your cohort.
• You are a citizen of South Africa residing in the respective country or diaspora.

You commit to building your venture on a full time basis and actively participate in all phases of the Talent investor for 13 months including the 3 months Residential Intensive in Cape Town.

Application Deadline

July 25, 2025

How to Apply

For more details, visit Jasiri Programme webpage