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Can these four entrepreneurs save Cape Town from city’s water crisis?

Cape Town’s Day Zero is closing in. Dam levels are currently at 26.3%. When levels drop to 13.5% the municipality plans to switch off taps. Might…

Dry Bath founder’s water saving proposal hits wall with city, government officials

Cape Town is in the middle of perhaps its worst water crisis, but South African award-winning entrepreneur Ludwick Marishane says city officials and national…

Under three days left to apply to pitch at SANBio bioscience innovation conference

Want to pitch your biotech startup, research idea, concept or prototype to regional and international stakeholders in the bio-sciences sector? Then you might want to…

Launchlab to move from lecture sessions to online content says incubator head

Stellenbosch incubator Launchlab plans to move from lecture-style sessions to offering more online content for its Lean Iterator and Countdown Programmes which participants will be able to watch…

Innovators to compete in Global Legal Hackathon for spot at New York showcase

The Global Legal Hackathon (globallegalhackathon.com) will arrive in South Africa for the first time next month, the Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL)…

AI Expo Africa 2018 aims to showcase opportunities in artificial intelligence

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) has become one of the hottest trends among startups, the world around. This September Cape Town will host one of…

SA startup Akili Labs to exhibit affordable mobile lab at US tech conference

Award-winning SA biotech startup Akili Labs has been selected to exhibit their mobile laboratory at the Collision Conference, one of the fastest growing tech conferences in…

Nokia and the Kenyan government team up to fund mobile startups

Finnish mobile phone-maker Nokia has partnered with the government of Kenya through the Kenya ICT Board to work towards ensuring tech startups specialising in…

Valuation startup wins Tech4Africa’s Ignite competition

ValuationUP has won the top spot at Tech4Africa’s ignite startup competition. The competition is part of the annual conference that looks at tech innovation…

GoMetro and iROKING partner to bring free music to SA commuters

Man, mobi.lity is on a roll. First, the startup’s GoMetro service got picked up as the official traveller information system of commuter rail agency,…

Naspers snaps up online photography retailer SAcamera

Emerging markets internet and media giant Naspers has snapped up SAcamera, an independent online retailer that sells cameras and photographic equipment. According to Bandwidth…

Internet startups in South Africa: some home truths

Founders of South African startups are overwhelmingly white and male. And, for all the rumpus around the lack of access to VC in the…

With CellSchool Mxit flexes its muscles as an online teaching platform

Despite the recent turmoil at Mxit, it’s good to see the instant messaging service continuing to attract interest from companies involved in South Africa’s…

Journey: an astoundingly smart solution for building data-gathering mobile apps

In 2009, four guys based out of a dorm room in Stellenbosch started working on something quite extraordinary. It’s called Journey and it’s a…

Google for Entrepreneurs: a boon for emerging market startups

Google reckons there are about 400 million entrepreneurs out there in the world and it wants to see that number increase. The search giant…

5 Ghanaian startups recognised at inaugural TopApps Awards

Ghana, a strong West African tech startup region, played host to the first ever TopApps Awards ceremony, held in Accra last week. The ceremony…

Innovative competition sees startups compress a pitch into a tweet

Pitching your startup isn’t easy. You’ve got to be concise and able to say what you do and why you should be given funding…

Prepaid voucher business-in-a-box Nomanini raises series-A funding

Nomanini, the company behind the little orange device that empowers individuals to earn an income while selling prepaid vouchers, recently raised US$600 000 in…

2go: SA startup you’ve never heard of crushes Facebook in Nigeria

South African instant messaging startup 2go is getting some good traction in Nigeria. The company is reporting that it recently crossed the 10 million…

Meet the 40 startups selected for DEMO Africa 2012

The final 40 startups for the first ever DEMO Africa conference have been announced. The 40 entrepreneurs chosen for the conference have gone through…

75% of US startups fail says new study

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal reveals that the number of startups that fail to return their investors’ capital, might be significantly…

Metrorail and mobi.lity launch Go Metro mobile information service

When Ventureburn wrote about mobi.lity earlier this year, we learned about its successful pitch to Western Cape transport agency, Metrorail, for its prototype railway…

Kaboose: Get beauty advice before you go shopping

Before you go shopping, chances are you’ve already done some Googling. If you’re shopping for beauty products, apparently it just became a lot more…

HONOR X9c Redefines Rugged Smartphones with Unmatched Durability and Smart AI Features

South Africans Embrace AI: 71% Excited About Future Impact, New Survey Reveals

Temu Survey Reveals Price is King for South Africans

Purple Elephant Ventures Secures $4.5M Seed Round, Setting Record in Kenya’s Tourism-Tech Scene

Conservio raises $1M to expand sustainable travel

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Honor Magic V3 launches, four things to know

Honor Magic V3, a Guinness world record attempt

Dakar dominated by South African built Hilux Evos

Elkann to create Jeep and Stellantis Meta(morphosis)

Afeela is Honda’s luxury EV – with Sony tech