Capital at entry. Customers by week twelve.
Three programmes, sorted by how far along you already are. Each one puts money in at the start, an operator beside you every week, and a room of investors at the end.
Incubate — Idea to First Customer
For technical and domain founders with a sharp problem and no company yet. Twelve weeks to a validated wedge, a working product, and a first paying customer — with capital, workspace and an operator alongside you every week.
Pre-incorporation to pre-revenue teams. At least one full-time technical or domain founder. An African market as the beachhead.
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Cohort size
- 10 teams
- Cheque at entry
- US$15,000
- Terms
- 4% on a post-money SAFE
Accelerate — Traction to Seed
For companies already shipping and already earning. Sixteen weeks to fix the growth engine, harden the operation, and close a seed round on terms you actually understand.
Incorporated companies with a live product, early revenue or signed pilots, and a founding team working on it full time.
- Duration
- 16 weeks
- Cohort size
- 8 companies
- Cheque at entry
- US$50,000
- Terms
- 6%, or an uncapped SAFE — founder's choice
Venture Studio — We Co-Found With You
For problems we already understand and intend to solve. 7Square brings the thesis, the first capital and an embedded build team; you bring the domain authority and take the CEO seat.
Senior operators and domain experts — public health, financial services, logistics, agriculture, government — ready to leave and build.
- Duration
- Ongoing
- Cohort size
- 2–3 companies a year
- Cheque at entry
- US$100,000 and a build team
- Terms
- 15–25% founding stake
Which one is actually yours?
If you are between two of them, apply to the earlier one. We move people up if the work says so.
| Incubate | Accelerate | Venture Studio | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stage | Pre-seed · Idea stage | Seed | Company formation |
| Duration | 12 weeks | 16 weeks | Ongoing |
| Cohort size | 10 teams | 8 companies | 2–3 companies a year |
| Cheque at entry | US$15,000 | US$50,000 | US$100,000 and a build team |
| Terms | 4% on a post-money SAFE | 6%, or an uncapped SAFE — founder's choice | 15–25% founding stake |
| Next intake | Cohort 03 — applications close 30 October 2026 | Cohort 02 — applications close 14 November 2026 | Rolling — we open two to three studio seats a year |
| Details→ | Details→ | Details→ |
The same stack, whichever door you come through.
Capital
US$15K–US$100K at entry, with follow-on reserved from the Seed Fund.
Engineering
A 7Square pod on call — agent systems, data infrastructure, sovereign deployment.
Workspace
Desk space in the host city for the full programme, and continental hot-desking after it.
Credits
Cloud, AI inference, legal, accounting and payment-processing credits worth over US$50,000.
Institutional access
Warm routes into the ministries, banks and health systems 7Square already works with.
The network, permanently
Directory listing, investor drops and the alumni channel long after the cohort ends.
Applications are open. Twenty minutes.
Tell us the problem, who has it, and what you have built so far. If it is early, say so — that is what Incubate is for.