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Top startup events in South Africa, Africa you should know about this week [23/02/2020]

This Thursday (27 February) in Cape Town, Heavy Chef will feature three investors in the second of its two events on investors. Over in…

Almost 20 years on, two SA inventors haven’t given up bid to launch portable gym

After almost 20 years of trying to develop a mobile gym and fitness analytics machine, John van Niekerk and Newtown Fortuin are still at…

Four Cape Town startups land over R2.7m in Savant TIA grants for their innovative ideas

Four Cape Town based startups have collectively landed over R2.7-million in seed grants from the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA), administered by Savant, a hardware tech…

Nigerian fintech Vesicash nets further investment from Ingressive Capital

Nigerian fintech Vesicash has raised an undisclosed amount of investment from Lagos-based investor Ingressive Capital. The startup provides a digital escrow service which helps…

Dutch VC fund takes a stake in SA’s Centbee after Paper Plane Ventures exits startup

UPDATE (21 February): An earlier version of this story had it that Dutch venture capital (VC) company Two Hop Ventures had acquired SA VC…

After netting $260k, Xion to launch subscriptions management platform in US

Three South Africans are hoping to hit it big in the US with their blockchain startup Xion, by helping ecommerce providers to quickly and…

Young entrepreneurs can help Africa to create jobs it needs [Opinion]

Africa’s high unemployment rate is one of the leading barriers to growth prosperity on the continent. As dire as the current situation is, it…

AfriLabs announces Morocco as host for next Annual Gathering

AfriLabs, a pan-African network of 174 technology and innovation hubs across 45 African countries has announced that it will host the fifth edition of…

Santam invests in JaSure, a Gauteng based insurtech that has done away with CEO role

Short-term insurer Santam has invested an undisclosed amount in JaSure — a Johannesburg based insurtech which has done away with the role of CEO….

Nigerian crypto platform Bitfxt lands $15m from UK investors, Payitup parent company

Nigerian crypto investment platform Bitfxt has announced that it has raised $15-million from a UK syndicate of hedge funds and UK company, Payitup Clearinghouse….

HiiL calls for legaltech innovators to take part in Global Legal Hackathon 2020

The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL) and Qubit Solutions, together with IBM South Africa, are looking for lawyers, technologists and active citizens…

University Technology Fund to grow R150m fund size with new investors, co-investments

With the SA SME Fund‘s R150-million University Technology Fund set to make its first investment in the coming months, fund manager Wayne Stocks says…

Nigerian fintech Carbon sets up $100k Pan-African fund

Nigerian fintech Carbon announced today that it has set up a $100 000 Pan-African fund for budding tech entrepreneurs on the continent. Carbon claimed…

Here are the 11 African fintechs selected for LHoFT’s bootcamp in Luxembourg

The Luxembourg House of Financial Technology (LHoFT) has announced the names of 11 African fintech companies selected for its Catapult: Inclusion Africa fintech bootcamp which…

Funding female founders will add billions to Africa’s economy [Opinion]

Recently, I hosted a pan-African entrepreneurship accelerator for female founders which comprised of a week-long in-person training programme hosted in Kampala, and an eight-month…

Six ideas for a startup for those still in university [Sponsored]

While you’re a student, you can’t stop thinking about the bright future that awaits. You want to expand your horizons. You want to be…

My parents said I was crazy to start a business, SweepSouth’s Aisha Pandor reveals in podcast

Save three years’ worth of salary. That’s what SweepSouth co-founder Aisha Pandor’s mother — the Minister of Foreign Affairs Naledi Pandor — advised her…

How to get your startup to appear in the media [Opinion]

It’s a new year and you’re probably big on getting your startup noticed. One way is to get media coverage. As a startup one…

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