On January 20, 2025, during President Donald Trump’s inauguration festivities at Washington D.C.’s Capital One Arena, Elon Musk made a hand gesture that ignited…
Microsoft SA launches Head Start programme to help startups grow
SA tech startups are set to benefit from tech, business development and legal support following Microsoft SA‘s announcement today (12 November) of the launch…
SweepSouth wins best small business category at Savca Industry Awards
On demand cleaning service SweepSouth has won the Best Small Company category at the inaugural Southern African Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (Savca) Industry Awards, which…
Second class of Launchpad Africa have raised $12m, created 253 jobs – Google
The 11 startups from the second class of Google’s Launchpad Africa accelerator have created 253 jobs and have raised over $12-million before and during the…
Botswana food delivery startup MyFoodness wins Seedstars Gaborone
Botswana food delivery platform MyFoodness has been selected as the winner of Seedstars Gaborone pitch event, which took place on Friday (9 November). MyFoodness was placed first…
Top startup events in South Africa, Africa you should know about this week [12/11/2018]
This week is Global Entrepreneurship Week. Throughout the week The Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) will host a series of events at its Johannesburg campus 22…
SBC AfriTech startups have raised €600k and secured 20 pilot agreements [Updated]
Startupbootcamp (SBC) AfriTech participants have been able to secure 20 proof-of-concept, pilot and commercial agreements and collectively raise €600 000 in funding to date, the Cape…
Cape Town Startup Week 2018 to celebrate city’s ‘vibrant’ tech scene [Updated]
Over the last decade Cape Town has grown to become arguably Africa’s tech startup capital. To celebrate this the city’s leading tech organisations yesterday (8 November) unveiled Cape Town…
We’re set to become first tokenised African tech accelerator – Kenya’s iHub
Kenyan hub and tech accelerator iHub today (8 October) announced that it will digitise all of its company assets using blockchain technology, and claims that…
Knife Capital invests in healthtech 5nines Technologies’ PharmaScout solution
SA venture capital (VC) fund Knife Capital announced today that it has made an undisclosed investment in Cape Town based healthtech firm 5nines Technologies…
Dimension Data to host NTT Data Open Innovation Contest regional challenge
SA IT company Dimension Data will host a regional challenge in February next year that aims to identify mature startups that can work with…
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