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Top startup events in South Africa, Africa you should know about this week [17/11/2019]

This week Africa’s tech startup community will join the world in celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), so look out for GEW themed events between…

Venture capitalist questions lack of women, role of foreign founders in Africa’s tech sector

Africa’s tech startup ecosystem may be growing, but the sector is far from being an even playing field, argues Africa Business Angel Network’s (ABAN)…

Here are the startups that won at AfricArena 2019

This year’s edition of the AfricArena tech conference, which took place on Monday and Tuesday (11 and 12 November) saw 33 startups compete in…

Rainbow wins 2019 Innovating Justice Challenge Southern Africa regional finals

Rainbow, a chatbot that addresses gender-based violence in SA, has been named the winner of the Southern African regional finals of The Hague Institute…

Sw7, Amazon Web Services launch virtual B2B technology business accelerator

Joburg-based tech accelerator Sw7 and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have partnered to launch a virtual B2B technology business accelerator which they claim to be…

Naspers Foundry calls on VC firms to help co-invest in SA tech startups

Naspers has called on venture capital (VC) firms to approach the tech company to co-invest with its over R1.4-billion startup funding initiative Naspers Foundry….

Healthtech Macquarie Medical Care wins Seedstars Windhoek

Healthtech platform Macquarie Medical Care has been named the winner of yesterday’s Seedstars Windhoek pitching event. Macquarie Medical Care, which was founded in 2010…

Quality of entrepreneurs in Anzisha Prize is up ‘tenfold’ – initiative’s deputy director

In its nine years the Anzisha Prize has got better at scouting for top young entrepreneurs — and in so doing the initiative has…

Smaller Section 12J funds will struggle to raise investor capital with new changes [Opinion]

National Treasury appears certain to retain changes to the Section 12J tax incentive, which allows South Africans to write off 100% of the investment…

Startups selected for Flat6Labs Cairo’s 14th cycle to get up to $47k in funding

Startups that are selected to join Flat6Labs Cairo‘s latest accelerator programme can expect to receive seed funding of between 500 000 and 750 000…

Microtraction invests in Nigerian online marketing platform Termii

Lagos-based early-stage investor Microtraction has revealed that it has invested in Nigerian online marketing platform Termii. Microtraction, which announced the deal yesterday in a…

EIB to raise €1bn to invest in digital solutions, financial products for girls, women

The European Investment Bank’s (EIB) new SheInvest initiative aims to raise €1-billion to invest in innovative digital solutions and financial products in Africa for…

RMI’s AlphaCode takes 25.1% stake in healthtech Guidepost

Rand Merchant Investments (RMI), through its fintech investment arm, AlphaCode, announced today that it had taken a 25.1% stake in SA healthtech platform Guidepost….

Jack Ma meeting with Togolese president: here’s how to watch tomorrow’s live streamed event

Jack Ma, the co-founder and former executive chairman of the Alibaba Group, will tomorrow meet with Togo’s president Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé. Ma — who…

Bank Zero’s Michael Jordaan puts launch delay down to decision to build own tech stack

Bank Zero announced today that it is a step closer to launching operations to the public, after having completed its core value proposition and…

How Endeavor plans to make social impact by backing high-growth entrepreneurs [Q&A]

Endeavor is more than simply a networking club for the business elite, but an organisation that aims to make a sustained social impact by…

Here are seven SA insurtechs that insurance companies are working with

Insurance technology is big money in South Africa, with several local insurtechs having together raised tens of millions of rands in investment of late,…

Fraud-accused Eran Eyal offering three immigrant students scholarships at $3600 each

SA entrepreneur and former Springleap founder Eran Eyal, who faces fraud charges in the US, pledged this week to offer three post-secondary scholarships, at…

Momentum Metropolitan reveals it’s backing insurtech, fintech through local VC [Q&A]

SA insurance company Momentum Metropolitan is partnering with a local venture capital (VC) company and a VC from the UK to develop innovative financial…

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