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Digital Health Cape Town launches second call, adds incubation offering to support

South African health tech accelerator Digital Health Cape Town (DHCT) has opened a second call for applications which will now also include support for ideas in the…

Kickstart Accelerator back for third edition with new programme structure

Zurich-based accelerator programme Kickstart Accelerator has opened applications for the third edition of its programme, which this year will take on a new programme structure….

Why Joburg’s HackR House stands empty a month after intended launch

It began as an idea to get entrepreneurs to live and work together in one house. Now Johannesburg’s HackR House — which was set to launch last…

Global Startup Awards: Nominations for Southern Africa open 31 March

Nominations for the inaugural Southern African Startup Awards — the regional finals of the Global Startup Awards — are set to officially open on…

Craft brewer Drifter raises R1m in first day of equity crowdfunding campaign [Updated]

Cape Town-based Drifter Brewing Company has raised over R1-million, hours after its equity crowdfunding campaign went live on equity crowdfunding platform Uprise.Africa. The craft brewer…

SA startup Cape Networks to be acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Cape Networks, a software as a service and hardware startup based in Cape Town and San Francisco, is set to be acquired by IT…

Injini winds up African tour a week before application deadline for second cohort

With just under a week left until applications for Injini‘s second cohort close, the edtech incubator was expected to yesterday wind up a three-week African…

88mph partners with Samsung, extends reach of African startups

Startup accelerator 88mph and Samsung Electronics Africa have entered into a partnership to provide three lucky startups, who enter the 88mph programme before 1…

Bozza boss reveals major Omidyar Network investment

Bozza boss Emma Kaye has revealed to Ventureburn that Africa-friendly Omidyar Network made a sizable investment in the company. Bozza, which is currently based…

Don’t go unappreciated or waste money on gift cards anymore, be Kiind

A gift-card given, is a gift-card thrown away, as a wise man once said. A verbose and fake idiom, but in reality about 8%-19%…

Peter Thiel backed goal-setting app Everest now live in SA

Anyone who’s ever had a new years’ resolution knows that setting goals is a lot easier than achieving them. If only there was an…

Gust Pay finally out of beta, ready to rock the mobile payment game

Saying mobile payments are blowing up in Africa is starting to get tired, but they really are. Stellenbosch-based startup Gust Pay just announced that…

Rocket Internet’s Glossybox hits 4m beauty boxes sold

Beauty subscription service Glossybox today announced that it had sold its four-millionth beauty box, meaning that it’s sold a box every 20 seconds since…

WooThemes founder cooking up educational resource for startups

This is interesting. WooThemes founder Adii Pienaar, is quietly preparing to launch a new venture called PublicBeta. The new project looks to be an…

Nigerian startup Knack launches affordable laptop and tablets

Knack International Limited launched a trio of smart devices and a laptop over the weekend. The young startup from Nigeria is attempting to provide…

Need a crash course in creating a business? Check out Startup Weekend Johannesburg

Startup Weekends are getting quite popular in Africa. Give groups of people 50 or so hours, an idea and set them to task creating…

MyDoorHandle receives Google invitation to Blackbox Connect

Dylan Kohlstadt and Steven Ellis from the Cape Town based startup MyDoorHandle have been invited to attend the Google for Entrepreneurs and BlackBox.vc entrepreneurial…

Savannah Fund’s first graduating class: Ahonya, Kola Studios & Safaridesk

Kenyan-based accelerator Savannah Fund has graduated its first class of startups in Africa. Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund that specialises in US$25…

Rocket Internet’s Easy Taxi secures $15m funding round

Latin American taxi app Easy Taxi has just secured a US$15-million funding round from its original backer Latin America Internet Holding. According to the…

Rocket Internet’s SE Asian LAZADA secures huge funding for the region

Things seem to be going well for Rocket Internet, with news and investments coming every week from the ecommerce cookie cutter company. This time…

Rocket Internet boasts crazy growth for Nigerian Amazon clone Jumia

German serial web company copiers, Rocket Internet, is reporting that its Nigeria-based Amazon wannabe, Jumia, will move to a new 90 000 sqft warehouse…

Every1Mobile closes R18m angel round, announces 3 million monthly visits

Every1Mobile (E1M), the company that specialises in building mass audiences via mobile in sub-Saharan Africa, announced that it has raised R18-million in angel investment….

Premier news site Daily Maverick offers qualifying startups free advertising

At a time when many online newsrooms are shuttering their content behind paywalls in the wake of trickling advertising revenues, one of South Africa’s…

Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Aura Edition Review: A Sleek, AI-Powered Ultrabook for the Work-Anywhere Era

WeThinkCode_ and South Cape TVET College Bring Software Engineering Training to Rural SA Youth

Flow launches the world’s first and only shoppable audience marketplace

Fintura Heads to Silicon Valley After Winning SA Startup World Cup

Capitec and Mama Money Launch Fintech Partnership to Empower Migrant Workers Across Africa

Flow Unveils World’s First Shoppable Audience Marketplace – A Fintech-Led Revolution in Digital Targeting

Acer Unleashes Beastly New Predator BiFrost and Nitro GPUs with AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series

Philips Evnia Drops Jaw-Dropping QD OLED Monitors: 240Hz, Ambiglow, and All the Good Stuff

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

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