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Township entrepreneur to launch South African e-hailing service

A Mamelodi Township resident and entrepreneur, Karabo Mogajane, will be launching a new local ride e-hailing service in South Africa. Mogajane has plans to…

Enter fintech innovation hackathon to win R100 000 in cash

Ozow, a South African digital payment tech startup has partnered with AfricaArena to host a digital hackathon. The hackathon is aimed at encouraging tech startups…

Nigerian tech startup acquired by US fintech

Nigerian fintech startup, Paystack, has recently been acquired by an American fintech to establish a convenient payment system in Africa. The startup assists with…

SA security startup selected to join African Early Stage Investment Summit

A South African security startup, AURA, has been chosen to be part of the African Early Stage Investment Summit (AESIS) and the Venture Showcase. This year the events…

Nigerian startup to launch import and export deliveries

Nigerian trade and tech startup, MVXChange has launched a new product offering titled MVXTransit, expanding its range of services for small African businesses. The…

Cape Town-based tech startup receives prestigious international award

An award-winning AI manufacturing local tech startup, DataProphet, has won the 2020 European Prescriptive for Autonomous Manufacturing Technology Innovation Leadership Award by Frost & Sullivan, an…

Siya Kolisi to join Africa tech startup festival

The Springbok Rugby Captain, Siya Kolisi, will be speaking at this year’s Africa Tech Festival. The event will be held virtually this year and…

Applications open for Pitch Live @ Africa Startup Summit

The Africa Startup Summit in partnership with tech publication Disrupt Africa has opened applications for its 2020 edition of Pitch @ The Africa Tech Summit….

Market research startup iSpani Group wins R2.5m in 2019 Social Tech Startup Challenge

Cape Town based on-demand sales force and market research startup iSpani Group has won R2.5-million in seed funding at the Diageo Empowerment Trust SA…

SA wins over half of the prize categories at Southern Africa Startup Awards finals

SA companies and entrepreneurs have won 11 of the 19 categories at the finals of this year’s Southern Africa Startup Awards (SASAwards). The winners…

Heavy Chef announces finalists of SA’s Five Most Exciting Startups list

The Heavy Chef Foundation has announced the 12 finalists of its SA’s Top 5 Most Exciting Startups initiative ahead of an award ceremony that…

Fourth cohort of Launchpad Africa raised $4.3m, created over 300 jobs, says Google

Google this week hosted its first Google Startup Week in Lagos and demo day for the fourth class of its Google Launchpad Accelerator Africa,…

Edtech startup Why Toyz wins Seedstars Johannesburg

Edtech startup Why Toyz has been named the winner of this year’s Seedstars Johannesburg pitching event. The Johannesburg-based startup was founded last year by…

These are the nine startups pitching today at Seedstars Johannesburg

Swiss emerging market startup competition Seedstars World has named the nine startups that will pitch today at Seedstars Johannesburg. The event will be held at…

SA biometric authentication startup Iidentifii claims to be market leader in Africa

Statistics released by the Southern African Fraud Prevention Service (SAFPS) in September show a 99% increase this year over 2018 in the number of…

Solution Space selects nine startups to join its Venture Exploitation Programme

The UCT Graduate School of Business’ Solution Space has selected nine startups to join its 12-week Venture Exploitation Programme. The programme, which is currently…

Seed grant of R50k among prizes on offer at YEEP Africa Ideas & Pitch Challenge bootcamp

The Youth Enterprise Exchange Programme (YEEP) Africa’s YEEP Ideas & Pitch Challenge bootcamp kicks off this Friday (29 November) in Johannesburg. One aspiring entrepreneur…

Norway’s TCapital acquires SA meal kit company Daily Dish

TCapital, a Norwegian private equity group has announced it has acquired Daily Dish, a meal kit delivery startup based in Cape Town. TCapital founder…

Meet Dr Reza, the man behind SA’s first vertical business jet [Q&A]

He plans to spend $500-million to develop SA’s first vertical business jet and is currently trying to raise R20-million from members of the public….

Startupbootcamp FinTech Cairo applications close next month

Fintech accelerator Startupbootcamp FinTech Cairo has called on Egyptian early-stage startups to apply to join its next cohort. Applications for Startupbootcamp FinTech Cairo’s second…

Seedstars announces finalists of the DOEN Land Restoration Prize

Seedstars has announced Ethiopia’s Zafree Papers, South Africa’s GreenFingers Mobile and Ivory Coasts’s Lono as the finalists of its DOEN Land Restoration Prize. The…

AfriLabs appoints new board at 2019 annual gathering

AfriLabs, a network for technology hubs and innovation centres, has announced that it has appointed a new board. The announcement was made at its…

Digital commerce startup Vectra wins Seedstars Cape Town

*Correction: Subsequent to the publication of the article, Vectra founder Wynand Geldenhuys informed Ventureburn that the company is in fact a digital commerce startup…

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