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Six ocean-minded startups in SA

Ocean Voyages Institute’s marine plastic recovery vessel broke a world record on 2 July of the most waste collected out of our oceans, measuring…

Kudoti crowned SA’s startup champion for 2020

Kudoti, a waste tech startup has won the prestigious Aim Virtual Startup Pitch Competition for 2020 and will head to Dubai to compete at…

OPay finally drops super app ambition; restructures model

Opera-backed Nigerian fintech startup, OPay has reportedly shut down all its business operations in Nigeria following a letter issued by its foreign investors. A…

How South African startup, Voyc, is taking its AI-backed contact centre software beyond Africa

Have you ever called a call centre and heard “this call may be recorded for training and quality purposes”? It’s a phrase most of…

How South African startup, Voyc, is taking its AI-backed contact centre software beyond Africa

Have you ever called a call centre and heard “this call may be recorded for training and quality purposes”? It’s a phrase most of…

SA crypto exchange which has raised $1.3m introduces quick buy and sell feature for traders

ChainEX, a cryptocurrency exchange in South Africa, has introduced its quick buy and sell feature for all crypto traders on their platform. The startup…

The Great Stack: Paystack is building an army of exceptional execs

Paystack, the second Nigerian startup to be backed by Y Combinator, debuted in the country’s fintech space in 2015 and has since experienced tremendous…

Graduates of Africa’s first drone accelerator programme announced

An accelerator programme has equipped 13 startups with the tools and skills needed to adopt the use of drone technology in South Africa along…

SA Fintech Mama Money expands globally

Mama Money, a South African founded digital money transfer operator that is taking the world by storm has announced their recent partnership with Western…

LifeQ announces it’s working with B-Secur to develop tech solution

Biotech startup LifeQ has announced that it is working with Belfast based B-Secur to offer an advanced, integrated Electrocardiogram (ECG) and optical (PPG) based…

Covid-19 causes 32% revenue decline in local startup sector

An investigation conducted by Atlas VPN found that 40% of startups globally experienced 40% and more revenue decline due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Atlas…

Nigerian fintech startups may soon need regulatory approval to launch new products

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has released a new framework for regulatory sandbox operations in Nigeria which seeks to provide regulatory oversight for…

Gen Z population credit-active has reached 10% in Africa [Partnered Content]

Over 28% of credit-active consumers in South Africa have a credit card. Credit cards have become a reliable means of payment for South Africans….

Covid-19: Do’s and don’ts for contact tracing by employers

From 1 June 2020, the whole of South Africa has moved to disaster alert level 3. As a result, most businesses that were prohibited…

Fintech MFS Africa acquires digital payments provider Beyonic

Johannesburg-based fintech firm MFS Africa announced today that it has acquired Beyonic, a digital payments management provider of business services for SMEs, fintechs, and social impact…

Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [30/06/2020]

Budget Insurance has launched a R6-million small business relief fund to help small businesses that have been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown…

How my startup pivoted in just three weeks to survive Covid-19

In early March, I was in California, visiting the campuses of some of the US’s best universities: Stanford, USC, UCLA and UC Berkeley. My…

How entrepreneurs can have a work-life balance [Sponsored]

The country is currently on level three of lockdown. While many businesses are operating seamlessly, with employees able to deliver on tasks while working…

The New Normal: Either find a way or make one happen

Rona has hit the world like wrecking ball floating through a dilapidated shack. And for startups, especially those still trying to find “product-market-fit”, it…

The New Normal: Selling life insurance products has forever changed

As Covid-19 sweeps across the world, the way we live, work and transact is changing at unprecedented rates. Fear and information overload are the…

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