F5.5G Leap-forward Development of Broadband in Africa The Africa Broadband Forum 2024 (BBAF 2024) was successfully held in Cape Town, South Africa recently, under…
Everything you need to know about the South African cryptocurrency ecosystem
While things may have quietened down on the crypto front after 2018’s massive fall in the price of Bitcoin, there’s still significant interest from entrepreneurs…
Court case looms for Yookoo Ride – but Kenny Kunene claims his startup is ‘okay’ [Updated]
Editor’s note (11 March 2020): Yookoo Ride founder Temesgen Tesfay contacted Ventureburn in February 2020 to inform the publication that the startup had no…
Here are the 21 African startups that will jet off to the 2019 Seedstars Summit
Twenty-one African startups are getting ready to jet off to Switzerland to attend the annual Seedstars World summit — the culmination of one of…
Vinny Lingham’s Newtown Partners invests in crypto exchange Ovex
Silicon Valley based SA entrepreneur Vinny Lingham has invested an undisclosed sum in Ovex, a Cape Town based cryptocurrency exchange, through his VC firm…
MTN puts failure of SMEasy agreement down to lack of market traction
While the founder of SMEasy accuses telco giant MTN of having reneged on a multi-million dollar distribution deal and then locked her accounting software business…
Here are the eight funds that the SA SME Fund will invest in
The R1.4-billion SA SME Fund — which was officially launched yesterday in Johannesburg by President Cyril Ramaphosa but which has already begun disbursing investments…
‘Fintech to help True Impact Fund distribute R1bn at zero management fees’
A new fund aims to use a fintech platform to disburse R1-billion to 2000 small businesses over the next three years which will allow…
New R150m Opus Ventures fund plans to invest R3m in Khomba taxi app [Updated]
UPDATE (27 March 2019): Khomba co-founder Sizwe Cele responded to Ventureburn subsequent to the publication of this article to say that his startup has…
Instore data insights startup Touchsides acquired by European firm
Two months since his Johannesburg startup Touchsides was acquired by a European company, the startup’s co-founder Gary Kaplan remains mum on the name of…
Revealed – SA investor Paper Plane Ventures behind these big tech names
Meet Stuart van der Veen. Van der Veen last month took up a position as chief platform officer of aerial-data analytics startup Aerobotics. But…
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