In a significant policy shift, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp, has announced the termination of its third-party fact-checking program in…
Pretoria duo in quest to sell Singapore based gold bullion through app
Dane and Bastiat Viljoen are looking to tap the growing retail gold bullion investment market by setting up an entity in Singapore that will…
Sean Emery confirms he’s still CEO of Rainfin despite new 4AX position
Sean Emery, the co-founder of SA online lending marketplace Rainfin, may last week have been appointed as interim CEO of alternative stock exchange 4…
Green machine closes VC deal after pivot from vending solution to tech platform
After a year of running their vending machine business Gideon Greaves and Chad Knezovich were at a loss at what to do. Greaves had sold…
Gugulethu entrepreneurs’ R280m case against Nedbank hits legal hurdle
The case of two Gugulethu entrepreneurs who last month took on Nedbank over the alleged infringement of their Instablock patent has hit a legal…
US founder of Aegis got idea to address gun violence while growing up in SA
The founder of a US startup which aims to tackle gun violence in America through smart cameras, says he got to know the seriousness…
LulaLend looking to access R500m in debt funding following latest raise [Q&A]
SA fintech startup Lulalend has had access to over R150-million in debt funding since launching in 2014 and is on track to access another R500-million off…
Naspers’ $2.3bn in Indian firms since 2011 dwarfs SA tech investments [Updated]
UPDATE (12 August 2019): Naspers announced in a press release today that it had taken part as lead investor in a $125-million fundraise in Indian…
SA fintech Fundrr finally lands funding after being turned down by 50 angels
Try and try again. That’s what the founders of Joburg based fintech startup Fundrr, which lends to small businesses, have had to do to…
Here are six of the biggest VC deals so far in 2019 by Egyptian startups
As summer hits Egypt it’s not just the streets that are cooking, with maximum temperatures in the capital Cairo expected to remain above 38…
On demand video production platform Vidr nets investment from Cape angels
A Cape Town based entrepreneur hopes to transform fast-turnaround video production through a new platform called Vidr, which last month clinched an undisclosed amount…
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