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Seedstars World reveals top 10 startups to pitch in Maputo
Seedstars World, the global seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes, is continuing its tour through Africa to scout for the best startups in Maputo. In line with its mission to place the spotlight on entrepreneurs from…
South Africa: Seedstars World names SA’s best startup
Seedstars World, the global seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes brought its South Africa country wide competition to a successful close during Seedstars Grand Final after hosting pre-selections in Cape Town, Durban and Soweto (Gauteng). The…
Seedstars set to find Angola’s best startup
Seedstars World is returning to Angola on July 27th. In line with its mission to place the spotlight on entrepreneurs from emerging markets, Seedstars World is travelling to more than 65 countries globally and 20+ in Africa this year to…
Telkom Business Connexion & Cisco reveal SA’s First End-to-End HCS
Telkom Business Connexion and Cisco announce the official launch of one of South Africa’s first end-to-end Hosted Collaboration Solutions (HCS) offerings. This best-in-class solution harnesses powerful communication and collaboration tools to provide customers with bespoke, scalable and anywhere-access to the…
Integr8’s Sussman to judge Seedstars start-ups
Robert Sussman, co-founder and co-CEO of international award winning ICT managed services company Integr8, is set to sit on the judging panel of Switzerland based Seedstars. Seedstars World promotes, connects and invests up to $1,5mn in emerging market start-ups through…
African startup aims to disrupt $45b market research industry
Johannesburg based technology startup, delvv.io, has announced a first round of investment led by global business executive and investor, Kevin Gaskell. The former Managing Director of both BMW and Porsche GB has led an investment round of R2 million to accelerate the development of…
African Start-Ups encouraged to participate in VIVA Technology Paris
African-born global ad-tech company, Popimedia is encouraging African tech start-ups to participate in VIVA Technology Paris. Co-hosted by Publicis, the inaugural event, running from 30 June to 2 July 2016, aims to provide a “real-time platform for collaboration and a…
Nelson Mandela Bay Tech Entrepreneurs and Start-ups get R&D Lab
SEDA Nelson Mandela Bay ICT Incubator (SNII) revealed the opening of a new technology research and development (R&D) centre, located on-site at its Newton Park technology office business park in Port Elizabeth. The SNII R&D Lab offers assistance and support…
Merck brings international start-up-companies to Nairobi & Darmstadt
Merck has revealed the participants for its Accelerator Programs being held in Darmstadt and Nairobi. Almost 200 highly competitive applications from 47 countries were submitted for consideration. According to the company, with this selection, Merck has set the agenda with…
Own disaster recovery at a business level or risk failing
Organisations need to move away from treating business continuity and disaster recovery as isolated IT conversations. Unless businesses ensure they also take people and processes into account when planning for disasters, they run the risk of not surviving them. This…
5 rules for managing people in your start-up
If your small business is to grow and prosper, you need to hire the right people and then manage them in a way that gets the best from them. Even if you are not a natural leader, managing people is…
Innotribe opens doors for East African fintech startups
Swift expects even greater innovation and a shift away from mobile technology at the 2016 Innotribe Startup Challenge for Africa. The Challenge, now open for applications, will take place at Swift’s African Regional Conference (ARC) in Mauritius on 17-19 May…
MasterCard to engage best Startups from Middle East and Africa
Technology and data are transforming the way consumers and businesses interact with each other, driving a need to bring new ideas to market with greater speed. The right corporate-startup partnership gives startups an accelerated path to scale innovative solutions. The…
Sasware Nigeria launches start-up program
In attempt to drive innovation and momentum for disruptive technologies in Nigeria, Sasware Nigeria has launched the Start-up in Residence (STAIR) program. According to Sasware, STAIR is a co-entrepreneurship program focused on aspiring entrepreneurs and newly founded start-ups who are…
SA startups triumphant at regional Get in the Ring Finals
South African startups Newtech Rail and Adfire Creative M3dia’s iMORPH3D app beat down the competition from the rest of central and southern Africa at the Get In The Ring entrepreneurship challenge in Johannesburg last week, to secure their places in…
The rise of African start-ups is a business opportunity, not a threat
We are in the middle of a tech start-up frenzy, with research suggesting that South Africa alone is home to more than 5000 tech start-ups. Rather than just seeing this rise of new potential competitors as a threat, enterprises should…
