Artificial Intelligence is no longer a distant promise or a Silicon Valley experiment. It’s embedded in the now. South Africans are already using generative…
Sorry to tell you this, but… being unique won’t make your startup money
It was a day packed with over five consecutive meetings. As I huffed and puffed towards my final destination, meeting up with the private…
How to sell a high-risk startup to skittish investors
Exhibit A: a startup with an inexperienced leadership team enters a business sector with notoriously high failure rates: the food service industry. On paper,…
Virtual incubation programme to be launched in East Africa
InfoDev, a global grant programme run by the World Bank to promote ICT, has announced a pilot virtual incubation project to bring up businesses…
U-Start: connecting investors with emerging market ventures
International funding platforms with their sights set on emerging markets are coming in thick and fast. U-start, a new online platform from Italy, matches…