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How Kgolo Network works
Where you gain access, what your business can achieve and how the funding reaches you.
Step by step
From sign up to first deal
Join
Sign up and choose a tier. The first 14 days are free.
Get verified
Add your CIPC, tax, B-BBEE and safety documents.
Go live
List in one or more pillars and open deal rooms.
Win and grow
Bid in the auction, apply for funding and train your team.
Where you gain access
The six pillars, defined
Each pillar is a marketplace on its own, with listings, buyers, tenders and funding. Choose the one that fits what you do.
Access the ground and the data.
Explore is how a member sees where opportunity and need sit in the mining value chain: which mines and operators exist, what they buy, where communities need support, and what data backs the decision. It is the front door of the marketplace and the home of the Mining Value Chain Index.
Open Explore
Keep more value in Africa.
Beneficiate is the pillar for turning raw minerals and mining by-products into higher-value products on the continent: processing, refining, manufacturing, recycling and the circular economy. It is where the marketplace moves from selling what is dug up to selling what is made.
Open Beneficiate
Capital that reaches small business.
Invest is the pillar that moves money to where the value chain needs it: grants, equity, debt, blended finance, impact capital and diaspora investment, directed at projects and small businesses that are visible, vetted and ready.
Open Invest
Technology, energy and safety solutions.
Innovate is the pillar for practical, pilot-ready solutions that make mining and its supply chain safer, cleaner, cheaper and more productive, developed with and for African conditions.
Open Innovate
Skills, enterprise and community projects.
Grow is the pillar for building people and businesses: free courses and workshops, enterprise and supplier development, women and youth participation, and community projects that turn mining presence into lasting local prosperity.
Open Grow
Logistics, markets and cross-border trade.
Trade is the pillar where deals happen: Deal Rooms, logistics, trade finance, ports and corridors, events and auctions, connecting African producers and suppliers to regional and global buyers, with a focus on the Africa and Gulf corridor.
Open TradeOne path
How the six pillars work together
The six pillars are not silos. They sit on the DIVE path: Explore is where a user Discovers, Innovate is where solutions are shaped, Beneficiate and Invest create Value, and Trade and Grow are where participation and Exchange happen. The Mining Value Chain Index and Deal Rooms are the connective layer under all six, not a seventh pillar.
Why it matters
What makes Kgolo different
Most mining directories list companies. Kgolo organises the whole chain by what a user needs to do (explore, make, fund, solve, learn, trade), tags every listing to a DIVE stage so progress is visible, tracks money on the Opportunity Ledger, and is built first for African mining communities and SMMEs, with the Africa and Gulf corridor as a growth route.
What your business can achieve
Contracts, capital and capability
- Be seen by mines and procurement teams with a verified profile
- Win tenders with alerts and a bid ready compliance pack
- Apply for the Kgolo Opportunity Fund through the Opportunity Ledger
- Take free courses and workshops to meet safety and ESG standards
- Bid for Prime Position every six months and lead a pillar
- List events and sell tickets to the whole network
The funding
How the Kgolo Opportunity Fund works
Membership
An annual fee. Pay monthly or upfront.
Pay in 12 monthly instalments, or pay the year upfront and save 10%.
Draft pricing for approval. Prices are in rand, annual fee equals 12 times the monthly price.
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