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Incubator Tool Library

A collection of vetted tools and resources to help impact incubators run smarter, scale bigger, and better support their entrepreneurs.

Pollinate Impact Tool Library

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When we say “tool”, we mean anything that helps incubators thrive—software, templates, handbooks, or any resource that lets you level up your game. We’ve curated the best for impact incubators across the Global South, so skip the search, grab what you need, and get back to making magic happen. 

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Tools for Designing Inclusive Entrepreneurship Support Programmes

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The Toolkit is organised in line with the common
steps of designing and running a business support
programme. You can easily navigate these different
steps below and jump directly to where you are at,
or you can read from beginning to end to get a better
grasp of the many facets and perspectives when it
comes to inclusion and accessibility in incubation and
business support. For each step, different tools are
listed and you can pick out what best fits your reality.

  • Category: Incubator Design, Strategy & Impact
  • Type: Toolkits

Organization: Impact Hub

Collection of Best Practices in Inclusive Entrepreneurship Support Programmes

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The document aims to provide actionable insights for incubators & accelerators, NGOs, policymakers, funders, and other stakeholders to be applied in the design and implementation of inclusive incubation and support programs, strategies, and/or policies.

  • Category: Incubator Design, Strategy & Impact
  • Type: Best Practices & Lessons Learned

Organization: Impact Hub

Toolkit for Inclusive and Relevant Business Support for Indigenous Entrepreneurs

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This guide is for Indigenous support organizations who walk alongside Indigenous entrepreneurs, helping them grow ideas into realities that honor their cultural, social, and economic aspirations. It’s a starting point for aligning business support with the deep-rooted values and needs of Indigenous communities.

  • Category: Incubator Design, Strategy & Impact
  • Type: Toolkits

Organization: Impact Hub

HerVenture

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HerVenture is an award-winning app designed to fit business learning into the busy lives of women entrepreneurs. It offers essential business training and support on topics like launching a business, accessing finance, expanding market access, e-commerce, and digital marketing. The app targets women in low or middle-income countries who are starting or running micro or small businesses in any sector.

HerVenture provides a personalized learning journey for each entrepreneur, delivering content in bite-sized, easily digestible formats like swipe-able cards and quizzes, which can be accessed offline. The app also facilitates networking among users and informs them about local business events. Through HerVenture, women gain foundational business knowledge, skills, confidence, and support to start, grow, and digitize their businesses.

  • Category: Enterprise Support & Portfolio Management
  • Type: Technology Platforms / Software

Organization: Cherie Blair Foundation for Women

Creating programs for Women Entrepreneurs with Disabilities

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This is a guide with real life stories of women in Cambodia living in the coastal communities who rely on fishing as their primary
source of income, who are part of a program co-implemented by Agile Development Group and Aide Et Action Cambodia(AEA) in the purpose of improving their socio-economic development

  • Category: Enterprise Support & Portfolio Management
  • Type: Handbooks

Organization: Agile DG

Disability Innovation:Empowering Enterpreneurs

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The report delves into the current state of the disability innovation ecosystem, highlighting the accomplishments and the importance of the perspective of leaders within the innovation ecosystem while identifying avenues for potential improvement.

  • Category: Enterprise Support & Portfolio Management
  • Type: Research

Organization: Village Capital

Global Report on Assitive Technology

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The Global report on assistive technology presents a comprehensive dataset and analysis of current assistive technology access, drawing the attention of governments and civil society to the need for, and benefit of, assistive technology, including its return on investment. The Global report sets out ten recommendations for improving access to assistive technology

  • Category: Incubator Design, Strategy & Impact
  • Type: Research

Organization: WHO - World Health Organization

Disability Etiquette

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This is a guide used to help ESO’s understand the acceptable language and behaviour when working with persons who are abled differently. From those who are visually impaired, physical impairment or mental impairment

  • Category: Incubator Design, Strategy & Impact
  • Type: Handbooks

Organization: Disability.in

Decision Making Tool

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Software can help make important decisions efficiently and fairly, and create powerful decision-making tools you can trust. This can be applied by ESOs in making decisions related to enterprise selection for a cohort.

  • Category: Pipeline Sourcing & Selection
  • Type: Technology Platforms / Software

Organization: 1000Minds

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Best Practices for Screening, Selection & Due Diligence

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This resource is a collection of both the key challenges and the best practices that have been effective in addressing the common challenges faced by ESOs globally in the process of screening, selection, and due diligence of entrepreneurs

  • Category: Pipeline Sourcing & Selection
  • Type: Best Practices & Lessons Learned

Organization: Pollinate Impact

Guide to Impact Incubation & Acceleration

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This is an interactive resource for entrepreneurial support
organisations (ESOs) who are running impact-focused
incubators or accelerators in the Asia-Pacific, and
beyond

  • Category: Incubator Design, Strategy & Impact
  • Type: Handbooks

Organization: Frontier Incubators Program

Venture Development Framework (VDF)

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To describe the development of early-stage science- and technology-based ventures.

  • Category: Enterprise Support & Portfolio Management
  • Type: Templates

Organization: Venturewell

ynos

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YNOS is India’s largest information and analytics platform for early-stage startups and investors. The platform uses advanced data integration tools, analytical search methods, and powerful filters to screen and search startups, investors, and incubators across hundreds of industries and sectors.

  • Category: Pipeline Sourcing & Selection

Organization: IIT Madras

Gender Lens Incubation and Acceleration Toolkit

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(GLIA) toolkit is an interactive resource, to guide accelerators and incubators (or ‘intermediaries’) through the journey of uncovering how our activities impact, and are experienced by, different gendered groups.

  • Category: Incubator Design, Strategy & Impact
  • Type: Toolkits

Organization: Sasakawa Peace Foundation, ygap, Conveners.org and SecondMuse

Accelerating Women Entrepreneurs – A Handbook for Practitioners

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This handbook is an interactive resource for you, whether you want to attract
more women entrepreneurs and/or better support them, want to improve the programme
or learn from the challenges and successes of others, select the right partners to run a programme, new to entrepreneurship support programmes &
women’s empowerment

  • Category: Incubator Design, Strategy & Impact
  • Type: Handbooks

Organization: GIZ

ESO Collaborative

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This platform is a community resource developed by the ESO Collaborative which brings together government, the Ghana Hubs Network, and other enterprise support organisations. It provides entrepreneurs, startups, businesses, freelancers etc. with extensive details of programmes provided by Enterprise Support Organisations (ESOs) in Ghana.

  • Category: Pipeline Sourcing & Selection
  • Type: Research

Organization: Impact Investing Ghana

Academy

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The AfriLabs Academy is an initiative of AfriLabs and implemented under the AfriLabs Capacity Building Programme that is designed to equip African Hub managers and staff with the training and management skills needed to improve their ability and capacity to support the growing number of startups and MSMEs in their communities

  • Category: Talent
  • Type: Trainings & Capacity Building

Organization: Afrilabs

NEX Portfolio

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Please find our detailed database of some of our portfolio businesses here. Our aim is to provide more connections and global network opportunities to businesses that have participated in NEX programming as well as offer market expansion opportunities.

Listing of companies, many of which are seeking out collaborators, we’ve supported in 12 countries. This database is still being enriched and more data to be added by end of March.

  • Category: Enterprise Support & Portfolio Management
  • Type: Research

Organization: New Energy Nexus

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