heart’s mission is to transform quality of life by creating, incubating and scaling up social enterprises  that work long term. Our mandate is to incubate social enterprises that are sustainable, scalable and replicable. We achieve our mission through a hands-on incubation methodology that is designed to systematically transform promising concepts into thriving, sustainable social enterprises. The process is comprised of three phases of development: Seed, Venture and Capital.
 
The Incubator’s management team helps Social Entrepreneurs to build marketable business platforms by providing them with office facilities, consulting services, mentorship and training, as well as access to networks of experts and investors.
 
Understanding that start-up social enterprises, by their nature, simply don’t have access to traditional funding channels, such as banks, nor the resources to afford strategic and operational expertise, heart combines its business development services with access to affordable loan funding. This unique service offering enables Social Entrepreneurs to finance their operations, as well as the cost of heart’s incubation services. heart is therefore a nexus between Social Entrepreneurs needing financial and development support and Investors seeking social and financial returns.

heart’s current portfolio includes a collection of socially impactful and financially promising social enterprises  which are at various stages of development. They were developed internally by heart in order to prove the effectiveness of the incubation methodology, provide practical case studies for social enterprise incubation and offer social investors the opportunity to get actively involved in pioneering and financing social enterprise in South Africa.