WomHub
What does your company do?
We are an education company that enables women all along the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering Mining and Manufacturing) Value Chains. We have 4 product categories
- Talent Vertical: Run skills programmes for girls from high school to industry on STEM including a digital skills focus on AI and Cybersecurity
- Entrepreneurship: We run incubators and accelerators to support the growth of female founders in STEM businesses
- Spaces: We built innovation spaces that are female focussed and tech enabled. They have fintech labs, VR Labs and AI & Cybersecurity labs but also have menopause and lactation lounges and a co-play space for kids called the Junior Engineering Hub. We currently have hubs in Cape Town, Johannesburg and East London
- We deploy capital to female founders as concessionary grant funding and VC investments
We enable women and girls all along the STEM value chain and have worked with clients in over 30 countries
What is your biggest success?
WomHub has worked with clients in over 33 countries to implement education and training programmes for women and girls in STEM in various countries. As a proudly South African company, to achieve that level of scale and clients with tech giants. We have thought of scale both as scaling wide and deep in terms of our footprint but also our turnover. We have doubled turnover year on year and remain committed to aggressive growth rates
What has been your biggest hurdle?
The flipside to aggressive growth is the pains of growing specifically around the right team that both gets the vision, but can get stuck into execution. We have struggled to bring in senior leaders within the company, and have no rather committed to building out our own mid-manager layer rather than recuit externally. This however does bring a challenge on our time as leaders.
