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…
We’ve invested R2.3m in ride-hailing app – former security guard, prison warden
A former security guard and former prison warden have teamed up to launch Taxi Live Africa — South Africa’s latest in long string of e-hailing…
SA’s AltCoinTrader to offer trade in non-Krugerrand gold, silver but is it legal?
SA cryptocurrency exchange AltCoinTrader has announced that it will next month allow users to trade in one-ounce gold and silver coins using its platform….
Half of R130m 4Di Capital, SA SME Fund to go to startups with black founders
Cape Town based venture capital (VC) fund 4Di Capital and the SA SME Fund have launched a R130-million fund that aims to invest in at…
Fintech accounts for over a third of SA tech startup investments in 2019 so far
Over a third of the over R500-million rand in venture capital (VC) investments directed to SA tech startups so far this year, has gone…
wiGroup grows 25% in year after financial management almost shut SA company
A year after having uncovered financial management which almost forced SA fintech wiGroup to shut down, the company has turned things around, having grown at…
Are these SA’s 10 biggest disclosed VC deals so far in 2019? [Updated]
UPDATE (18 July and 23 December 2019): The list and figures have been updated to take into consideration deals in the crypto sector that…
40 African startups prepare for demo day in Seedstars investment programme
Forty African startups are looking to qualify for demo days in four cities across the continent, as part of the first batch of Swiss-based Seedstars‘…
Ntshavheni announces string of new initiatives to boost small business support
The Minister of Small Business Development Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has announced a string of new initiatives, in what could be a major step to improving…
Sefa’s Small Business and Innovation Fund to finance 100,000 startups, SMEs [Updated]
SA small businesses will soon have access to a mixture of grants and loans from the state’s Small Enterprise Finance Agency (Sefa) — through…
Norwegian Håvar Bauck’s Kenyan startup HotelOnline announces it’s raised $320k [Updated]
Håvar Bauck, the Norwegian entrepreneur who hit the news earlier this year over his dealings with controversial Polish tech entrepreneur Marek Zmyslowski announced yesterday that…
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