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My-iMali looking to raise R25m to save employers thousands of rands in bank charges

A SA fintech startup wants to save employers thousands of rands in bank charges by getting them to pay their employees through a new…

US based Alchemist Accelerator helped us get investors says Redbird Health Tech co-founder

Redbird Health Tech co-founder and CEO Patrick Beattie says joining San Francisco-based Alchemist Accelerator — which announced recently that applications for its latest cohort will close…

Can entrepreneurial parents inspire their children to follow in their footsteps?

Does it make a difference who your parents are if you’re looking to start a business? To what degree do parent’s influence the chances…

Pitch AgriHack 2019 winners awarded a total of €60k in prizes

Seven startup that came out tops at the Pitch AgriHack 2019 competition earlier this month have been awarded a total of €60 000 in prizes. Pitch…

SA SME Fund, TIA commit R237.5m in new money to biotech, university, tech fund

The SA SME Fund and the Department of Science and Technology’s Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) have revealed that they will invest R236-million together in two…

Solar solutions firm Nadji.Bi Gambia wins Seedstars Banjul

Nadji.Bi Gambia, a firm that offers solar solutions to a potential potential customer base of 1.3-million people, has won this year’s Seedstars Banjul pitching event. The…

Rwandan software development firm Exuus wins Seedstars Kigali

Rwandan software development firm Exuus has emerged the winner of last Friday’s Seedstars Kigali pitching event. Kigali-based Exuus has developed a digital and inter-operable decentralised ledger for saving…

SA’s Nemabio takes third place at SA Winetech Pitching Den behind French startups

Cape Town based biotech firm Nemabio has taken third place in the 2019 SA Winetech Pitching Den competition. French company Vegetal Signals came out…

Anzisha Prize announces top 20 young African entrepreneurs of 2019 in running for $25k prize

Meet Africa’s youngest entrepreneurs whose ideas are re-imagining the future of the continent After months of searching the African continent, the Anzisha Prize has…

Egypt’s Techne Summit 2019 to host launch of Mediterranean Business Angel Network

International investment and entrepreneurship event Techne Summit 2019 will host the launch of the Mediterranean Business Angels Network, the event’s organisers, Egyptian marketing agency Markade have revealed….

Top startup events in South Africa, Africa you should know about this week [15/9/2019]

The Southern African Venture Capital And Private Equity Association (Savca) will hold the launch of its 2019 Venture Capital Industry Survey this Thursday (19…

Khula, Bonang.ai to pitch at AfricArena Summit after winning Jozi, Cape Town events

Joburg based agritech startup Khula and Cape Town-based insurtech Bonang.ai have been selected to pitch at November’s AfricArena Summit. This, after the two came out tops at…

These are the nine Rwandan startups pitching today at Seedstars Kigali

Seedstars World, one of the world’s biggest competitions for emerging market tech startups, has announced the names of the nine startups that will pitch today…

Here are the nine Gambian startups pitching this afternoon at Seedstars Banjul

Emerging market startup competition Seedstars World has named the nine startups that will pitch at Seedstars Banjul. The event will kick off at 3pm…

HotelOnline merger will create Nordic frontend with an African engine – Håvar Bauck

Norwegian Håvar Bauck, the founder of Kenyan startup HotelOnline, has merged his startup’s Nordic activities with the Norwegian entity of Key Butler, a Nordic traveltech…

Stop mixing up innovation-led firms with SME argues former Flutterwave CEO

Policy makers must stop mixing up innovation-led enterprises with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as the two are completely different from one another, argues…

What decriminalisation of cannabis means for the workplace [Opinion]

Following the Constitutional Court’s ruling in September last year, cannabis use, possession and cultivation in South Africa has been decriminalised with adult persons now…