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SODBI Business Incubator is an ICT-enabled non-profit organization based in Shymkent, which is in southern Kazakhstan. The SODBI Business Incubator was established with the support of the Shymkent City administration, and is closely associated with the city's Innovation Committee. The work program focuses on: building mentoring and consulting capacity, facilitating business partnership arrangements between incubators and clients, advocacy for SME policy reform, fundraising, and access to Russian language translations of global and infoDev literature on incubation. The SODBI Business Incubator has over 20 tenants. There are 10 graduates to date. To support ICT-related business tenants, SODBI established its own loan fund for SMEs, and has an agreement with banks to provide loans to clients. SODBI Business Incubator is financially self-sufficient, generating revenue from tenant rentals, business services to internal and external clients, and training services.
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