Startups

Six Cape startups equipped with HR skills graduate from TenaCiti programme

A Cape Town HR programme has helped six startups and their respective recruits to improve their human-resource management processes and up their level of professionalism. The…

Sweep South concludes Series-A round with Black Coffee for ‘seven-figure’ sum

One of SA’s biggest music icons DJ Black Coffee has invested in domestic hiring platform SweepSouth during its Series-A funding round. “We connected with…

New Silicon Cape head pledges to make sector’s ‘old boys’ club’ more inclusive

Silicon Cape’s new managing director says she plans to get the Cape’s tech scene — long tagged as an “old boys’ club”, with moneyed…

To succeed, help foster tech startups, Brics nations must work from bottom up

Many have asked if the association between Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa has any real significance. Will it benefit the economies of member…

Tackle infrastructure, skills challenges to boost tech sector, say Nigerian experts

Nigeria must overcome its infrastructure challenges and shortage of skills if it is to help the country’s nascent tech scene to grow, say analysts…

CCDI to back seven innovative Cape projects in second round of seed fund

A hydrogen-powered drone that releases lab-bred insects to wipe out pests, a medical device which uses a novel method to treat glaucoma and an…

Q&A: FSB’s Caroline da Silva clarifies 30 June deadline on crowdfunding

South Africa’s Financial Services Board (FSB) last month revealed to Ventureburn that it had set a date of 30 June by which it plans to rule…

Startup Blitz: Supernice on improving brands’ digital engagement

“Innovate. Touch. Create.” are the words that Supernice stands for. While aiming to create “not just another app,” the startup wants to create fun,…

The startup curve South Africa: wiggles of realism

It is sometimes too easy to dish out titbits of startup advice from a venture capital ivory tower without going through the practical realities of…

Martin Bjergegaard talks pitching new ventures, multi-million dollar exits

Martin Bjergegaard was an unknown name to me, till some few weeks ago. His profile, at the time, included him being the co-author of…

The trifecta of pitching (plus two): why good startups don’t get funded

People ask these questions often, especially in startup obsessed circles. Why don’t good startups get funded and why do bad ones? It seems there…

Startup Blitz: OrderIn, online food ordering made simple [Video]

It’s 9pm. You’re in a lazy mood, but you’re hungry. You don’t know what to get. You could get the tried and tested pizza…

Ninja Invoice aiming for disruption with simplest, cheapest offering

Cape Town startup, Ninja Invoice, says that quoting and invoicing should not be intimidating and consume a lot of valuable time. Entering a market…

Dave McClure says Silicon Valley is ‘functionally illiterate’ at marketing

We here at Ventureburn think marketing is really important when it comes to thinking about your overall startup strategy. It’s better to start thinking…

SA startup Weaver taps Facebook to help singles find love on a group date

Joining an armada of dating startups — some more legit, than others — that tap Facebook for eligible singles, South Africa’s Weaver is putting…

Marc Andreessen: Silicon Valley is too hard to recreate

Known for co-founding Netscape and the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, Marc Andreessen recently made his thoughts clear on what seems to be a…

Startup Blitz: TaxTim, a helping hand to simplify filing your tax return online

Tax season is upon us once again. For many South Africans this means wading through daunting SARS IRP5 forms all the while hoping we…

5 key differences between a private and public company

There comes a stage in every company’s lifecycle when going public makes sense. It might be to maintain growth, pull off more aggressive expansion,…

Lessons from Israel: how the country became the Startup Nation

Some call it a miracle. Others an enigma of the culture. But the statistics surrounding the amount of high-tech startups that are conceived in…

An ecosystem in turmoil: inside South Africa’s startup problems

When you think about the number of tech communities popping up everywhere, the question no one seems to ask is whether or not the…

The UCWeb story: the turning points that grew the startup to 400m users

With more than 400-million users of its UC Browser, China’s UCWeb is probably one of most popular mobile browser makers in the world. UCWeb…

Figuring out whether to bootstrap or find a VC overlord? Read this first

We love the idea of bootstrapping here — we even have a guide to it. Recently I have been noticing a movement toward bootstrapping….

Startup Blitz: Dream Mobile, low-cost handsets for the African consumer

The rising African consumer-market is on the verge of blooming, and waiting to be tapped into. At the center of it all is the…

RIP Skype Microsoft Pulls the Plug on a Digital Pioneer

SITA pushes back as Home Affairs eyes IT exit

Wiinta: The AI Therapist Aiming to Revolutionise Mental Health in Africa

French No-Code Pioneer Tinkso Secures Strategic Investment from SA Entrepreneur Henk Pretorius

IBM Think 2025: Enterprise Gen AI Moves Beyond the Hype

Altron FinTech Index signals modest household recovery, but affordability gap persists

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

Slate Truck is an outrageously sensible pickup

Red Bull wings for Lucid – not Tesla

Gravity is a true driver’s EV SUV