Startups

SA might be in recession but opportunities are huge – Alphawave chairman

While South Africa slipped into a recession in the first quarter of this year, Stellenbosch investor and entrepreneur Frans Meyer says the opportunities for…

Awethu Project app to provide virtual incubation to informal entrepreneurs

South African business support organisation The Awethu Project has launched an app for entrepreneurs and aspiring business owners, intended as a “business coach in…

SA fitness app Fitkey heads for 1000 paid subscribers almost two years after launch

Almost two years after it launched local startup Fitkey has almost a 1000 paid subscribers, with about 3000 users signed up to the browse…

Q&A: Focus on creating unicorn for SA is misdirected says Justin Stanford

Any overt focus by South African ecosystem players on creating the country’s first unicorn is a “misdirection of attention” says venture capitalist and founder of 4Di…

FSB misses its own crowdfunding deadline

South Africa’s Financial Services Board (FSB) has missed a June 30 deadline on considering whether to regulate equity crowdfunding or not. A FSB spokesperson in…

Machine learning is fast becoming business imperative for marketing

Imagine a world ruled by robots, where artificial intelligence (AI) is used to wield commercial influence and drive our daily decisions. Imagine if your…

Online betting may be on rise in Nigeria but startups still put off by challenges

The English Premier League enjoys a religious following in Nigeria, likewise the Spanish La Liga. But for some fans, watching the game is not…

10 awesome new gadgets from HAXLR8R’s hardware accelerator

HAXLR8R, the Shenzhen-based hardware accelerator program, has graduated 10 new teams from its latest 15-week incubator. At an event in San Francisco, the 10…

8 pitches from StartupBus Africa, ‘Workforce’ announced as winner

Following a long four-day road trip, eight startups from StartupBus Africa pitched their ideas to a group of investors at eKasi, Khayelitsha, South Africa…

Your startup may have a security plan, but is it enough?

Security is an ever-present constant for any business, and in spite of the fact that it is often underrated, it has the capacity to…

SA real-time crime reporting app SPOTTM: like Batman in your pocket

There is a surge of transportation mobile apps kicking off in South Africa using technologies such as GPS and mobile data to connect potential…

Is recommendation startup TargetingMantra India’s next big thing?

Every now and again a startup comes along that is doing something really great — a fledgling business both exciting and promising, and yet,…

Play It Gaming raises $700k to bring social gaming to feature phones

Canadian startup, Play It Gaming, has this week raised US$700 000 in seed funding to give the company a boost in bringing social games…

Gamebase delivers mail-order console gaming to South Africa’s doorstep

The global video game market was valued at US$65-billion in 2011, US$79 billion in 2012, and is expected to reach US$93 billion this year….

The West African startup landscape: it’s not just about Nigeria [2013]

We have been working on getting you up to date with the different startup ecosystems in Africa. We began this with South Africa and…

Competition for Africa’s ecommerce startups heats up as Christmas nears

Christmas is right around the corner and Africa’s ecommerce stores aren’t letting this opportunity slide without getting their fingers in the pie. The popularity…

Here’s why a global agenda is becoming more significant for African startups

The instant you put a .com next to your company name, your business is open to the entire world. Hell, any domain would do….

Catching the eye — online marketing is about starting a conversation

Marketing is not a new concept. For thousands of years human beings have employed a variety of tactics to entice the interest of potential…

Financial startup CompareHero to aid ‘underserved’ Malaysian market

CompareHero recently launched in Malaysia with the hope of becoming go-to financial comparison site. While the need for financial aid services seems to be…

Banks are ‘stuck in the past’ — Yiba defiantly enters African credit market

The peer-to-peer (P2P) lending space in South Africa is heating up. A Johannesburg-based startup called Yiba, an acronym for “You’re Invited Banks Aren’t”, is…

Design and vision: why your startup needs an online marketing strategy

Any startup that has not embraced the digital revolution will find it increasingly harder to captivate and retain their target audience. In fact, the…

Naming your startup: fun, friendly or just plain hipster?

If your startup name can’t potentially be used as an everyday verb or doesn’t end with “ly” you’ve probably missed the trend train. Geekatoo,…

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