Venture capital company, Blue Label Ventures announced on Tuesday, 30 July 2019, that it has invested in Cape Town-based technology startup Mobii Systems. The deal will see Blue Label take up 26 per cent of Mobii developers the funding needed for product...
From digital satellite solutions to waterless sanitation, marketing automation, and creative Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, innovation is the common thread linking the 10 diverse enterprises selected for the first Johannesburg iteration of Knife...
Nigeria’s digital publishing platform, Publiseer, has been selected to pitch at Startup Turkey Top 100 Demo Day. Publiseer was selected as the top 100 from 120,000 startup applications from 150 countries. Only 1% of the startups that applied were...
January 10, 2019 •
Startups, Top Stories •
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Comments Off on South African startup secures additional $1.85 million funding
WhereIsMyTransport has received an investment of USD 1.85 million from Liil Ventures and Goodwell Investments as part of its Series A funding round. The investment has been secured as the company expands its digital mapping of formal and informally run public...
July 2, 2018 •
Startups •
NetAdmin •
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Africa has successful and resilient young entrepreneurs who never stop; risk takers who build phenomenal businesses, tackle problems and create lots of jobs in the process. Forbes has released its latest ’30 under 30 list‘, focusing on the...
IoT is growing and will continue to grow beyond 2017. IHS Technology predicts that there will be 75 billion connected devices by 2020. IoT is about connecting exponentially more devices to the internet. This trend promises to make our global society more...
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 identify the best...
Seedstars World, the global seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup ecosystems has brought its pre-selection rounds to an end. In partnership with Standard Bank, Seedstars World hosted the pre-selections in Cape Town,...
Seedstars World, the global seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup ecosystems, brought its third pre-selection round to a successful close during Seedstars Soweto, targeting startups in the Gauteng area. The event took...
May 20, 2016 •
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NetAdmin •
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Hello Paisa was named, according to the company, as the number one Fintech Company in Africa in Mauritius during the course of May 2016, at the SWIFT African Regional Conference. The company revealed that it will now form part of a delegation along with two...
April 29, 2016 •
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NetAdmin •
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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...
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...
South African tech start-up Eduze announces partnership and investment from TED. Eduze is making waves in the digital content industry, attracting attention to its strategy: “Great digital content. Done right”. By “done right” they...
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 a skill that you can learn and improve with practice and with...
January 26, 2016 •
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NetAdmin •
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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...
January 19, 2016 •
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Comments Off on 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 take the opportunity to...
