what we do

“Our winning team is totally committed to making South  Africa a better, safer, richer place to live for all. Our core  mission is to transform quality of life by creating, incubating and establishing social enterprises that work long term.”

Max Pichulik - grows the business

Our business model comprises of four parts:

the Hub

Hub World  is a network of 23 social innovation hubs around the world. Hub Cape Town offers like-minded socially conscious individuals access to a shared work space, including hot desks, share reception, meeting rooms, internet access and telephony. It's a great place to meet new people, share ideas and discover new ways of working together. Click here to visit Hub Cape Town's website. 

the incubator

heart is a non-profit organisation that incubates start up social enterprises through seed, venture and capital phases of development. The service offering includes office facilities, consulting services, mentorship, training, access to networks, investment and project governance. Click here for more information on the incubator. 

the funds

heart social investments (HSI) is a for-profit company that provides specialist fund management services to socially and environmentally conscious investors.   Click here for more information on HSI. 

the portfolio

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. Click here to take a look at the portfolio.