Sponsor Us
Partner with South Africa's technology leadership community.
Tech Leadership is a South African community for longtime, new, and aspiring technology leaders.
Since 2019, we have created spaces where software engineers, tech leads, engineering managers, product leaders, and senior technology professionals can learn from one another through practical talks, honest conversations, and in-person networking.
We host monthly in-person meetups in Cape Town and quarterly in-person meetups in Johannesburg. Our audience is highly relevant for companies that want to reach technology decision-makers, engineering leaders, senior software professionals, and future leaders in South Africa's tech ecosystem.
Why Sponsor
Why sponsor Tech Leadership?
Companies usually sponsor us for one of two reasons.
1. Employer brand & recruitment
You want to be known by strong engineering talent. Ideal if your company is hiring software engineers, engineering managers, tech leads, product managers, data professionals, or other technical roles.
Sponsorship gives your brand consistent visibility with people who either:
- Make hiring decisions
- Influence where engineers choose to work
- Are themselves senior or emerging technical talent
2. Product, brand & market visibility
You want your product or company brand to be visible to South Africa's technology community. Ideal if your product serves:
- Developers & engineering teams
- Technology leaders
- SaaS, startup & fintech companies
- Product and engineering organisations
Sponsorship gives your brand trusted exposure in a community built around learning, leadership, and technology.
Why Monthly
Why monthly sponsorship?
One-off event sponsorship gives you visibility once. Monthly sponsorship gives you repeated presence.
That matters because trust in a professional community is built over time. When your company appears consistently across our events, newsletters, website, and community communication, members start to recognise your brand as a genuine supporter of the South African technology ecosystem.
A recurring commitment also helps Tech Leadership plan better events, secure venues, support speakers, improve the attendee experience, and keep the community sustainable. We recommend a minimum 6-month sponsorship commitment.
Social Proof
An established, growing community
Tech Leadership has been active since 2019 and has grown into an established engineering leadership community in South Africa.
Our community includes software engineers, tech leads, engineering managers, senior engineering leaders, product and technology professionals, and aspiring technology leaders. In the past, Tech Leadership has attracted support from respected companies in the South African technology ecosystem, including OfferZen, Peach Payments, Root, MoonPay, and Mama Money as official meetup sponsors.
Sponsorship Tiers
Choose the tier that fits your goals
Monthly sponsorship starts from R5,000 per month. We recommend a minimum 6-month commitment.
Community Partner
R5,000 / month
Best for companies that want consistent brand visibility and community association.
Includes
- Logo on the Tech Leadership website sponsor section
- Sponsor mention at Cape Town and Johannesburg events
- Sponsor included in selected event communication
- Sponsor pull-up banners displayed at events
- Option to share one short hiring or product message per quarter
- Recognition as a supporter of the Tech Leadership community
Good fit for
- Early-stage companies
- Companies hiring occasionally
- Companies wanting low-friction brand presence
Growth Partner
R10,000 / month
Best for companies actively hiring or wanting stronger visibility with technology leaders. Includes everything in Community Partner, plus:
Includes
- More prominent logo placement on event pages and event communication
- Option to provide a short 1–2 minute sponsor introduction at all events
- Featured sponsor section in the monthly newsletter
- Ability to promote relevant open roles, engineering content, or product updates to the community
- Option to host selected Tech Leadership events at your offices, subject to community fit and availability
- Custom campaign opportunities around hiring, employer brand, product awareness, or thought leadership
Good fit for
- Companies hiring technical talent
- Companies building employer brand
- Companies selling products or services to engineering teams
Value
Why the pricing is reasonable
For many companies, one month of Tech Leadership sponsorship is comparable to, or lower than, common recruitment and marketing costs such as:
- A single paid job advertising campaign
- A small employer branding campaign
- A conference sponsorship
- A recruitment agency success fee
- Paid social campaigns targeting technical talent
- Hosting your own standalone community event
The difference is that Tech Leadership gives you access to an already-engaged, relevant, in-person community of technology professionals. Instead of paying once for broad, uncertain reach, you get repeated visibility with a focused audience that is directly relevant to engineering hiring, technology leadership, and product awareness.
Our Commitment
What we can promise
- Consistent brand visibility
- Access to a relevant technology leadership audience
- Professional sponsor recognition
- High-quality community association
- Clear communication and reliable execution
- Honest feedback on what resonates with our audience
Next steps
We recommend starting with a 6-month sponsorship commitment. This gives your brand time to build recognition within the community and lets us plan event programming, sponsor visibility, and community communication properly.
- Choose the sponsorship tier that best matches your goals
- Confirm whether your main objective is recruitment, brand awareness, product visibility, or a mix
- We send you a short sponsorship agreement and invoice
- We collect your logo, website link, and short sponsor description
- Your sponsorship goes live across the agreed channels