Venture capital

Egyptian edtech Orcas lands $500k from Algebra Ventures, NFX Capital

Egyptian startup Orcas has raised $500 000 in a pre-Series A funding round led by Egyptian venture capital (VC) fund Algebra Ventures, with participation from…

HAVAÍC invests undisclosed sum in Kenyan virtual postbox startup MPost

Cape Town based venture capital (VC) firm HAVAÍC yesterday announced that it had invested an undisclosed sum in a pre-Series A round in Kenyan virtual…

Female focused Dazzle Angels close to making first investment

Dazzle Angels, SA’s first angel fund focused entirely on women-owned technology businesses, is edging closer to announcing its first deal. Alexandra Fraser (pictured above),…

SA hardware tech incubator Savant invests over R9m in medtech startup SmartBlade

SA hardware tech incubator Savant has invested R9.5-million in Cape Town based medtech startup SmartBlade. Savant venture fund manager Nick Allen (pictured above) —…

German government launches €1bn Africa fund

German ambassador to Ghana Christoph Retzlaff earlier today announced that the German government had launched a €1-billion Africa fund. Retzlaff (pictured above, left with former Ghanaian…

Uprise Africa calls on funders to co-invest with crowdfunding platform

SA equity crowdfunding platform Uprise.Africa is calling on venture capital funds and other funders to co-invest with individual investors on its platform. The call…

Time is right for VCs, equity crowdfunding platforms to collaborate [Opinion]

Crowdfunding, a fairly new concept in South Africa has emerged as an epic tale, marking the start of a new era. SA equity crowdfunding…

Globevestor matches global-minded investors with emerging market startups

Emerging market startups, especially those at the pre-revenue mark, continue to find access to early-stage capital (US$150 000 to US$1.5-million) challenging. At the same…

How to land seed funding

There’s a very slim chance you know who Steve Schlafman is, but you’ve probably heard of Turntable.fm, the fleeting viral interactive music sharing service…

Unwrapping the mysteries of SA’s venture metrics landscape [Infographic]

With additional reporting by Mich Atagana South Africa’s startup landscape is an industry wrapped in mysteries and enigmas. It’s a world of near facts…

Michael Jordaan’s MonteGray Capital makes first VC bets and it’s all about tech

Last year when former FNB head Michael Jordaan joined South African instant messaging service Mxit as chairman, we heard that his new aspirations were…

5 insights into the investor-startup exchange: attitude, horizons, awareness

Startups get a lot of attention from the industry. Simple as that. They are the sexier, jazzier, more vulnerable babies that the media gets…

VC4Africa offers African entrepreneurs coaching, investor introductions

Getting access to Africa’s investor network has potentially gotten a whole easier with Venture Capital for Africa (VC4Africa) and its initiative called Cohorts. The…

Sharks, sorcery and speculation: what lies beneath most startup valuations

In 1954 one of Hollywood’s greatest artistic geniuses, Walt Disney, had a fantasy. Disney dreamed of building a giant amusement park unlike anything that…

Knife Capital Grindstone programme will take you out of your comfort-zone

Cape Town based fund manager Knife Capital’s new accelerator programme Grindstone, aimed at post-revenue startups, will help managers cultivate a growth strategy to scale…

Every VC company is a media company

The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and Cambridge Associates recently released a study showing that VC funds returned an average of 7.4% annually over…

Why South Africa needs patient ‘co-opetition’ between venture investors

A couple of weeks ago Ventureburn asked Marc Herson of mobile social network 2go, what the South African startup tech ecosystem needed, especially its…

SumUp secures funding to take mobile payments to South America

Mobile point-of-sale company, SumUp, recently raised a rumoured ‘double-digit million Euro’ round in Series B funding from Groupon and American Express. Today it announced…

Silvertree Capital has ecommerce sweet tooth, sub-Saharan African focus

Africa’s tech investment landscape has gained a new fund which looks set to boost the emerging sector. The recently launched Silvertree Capital is a…

Business Partners puts aside R1bn for SA’s tech, energy, agro-processing SMEs

Business Partners, the specialist funding and mentorship company, says that it will make R1-billion available for its 2013-14 financial year to spend on business…

Jobs portal SEEK pumps $20-million into Private Property’s classifieds empire

Australian jobs portal SEEK has invested US$25-million (R205.53-million) in One Africa Media (OAM), previously named Private Property Holdings. The deal will help the South…

Crowdfunding platform Thundafund rolls in over SA startup landscape

South Africa’s crowdfunding space expanded earlier this month with the launch of Thundafund, the Cape Town-based crowd-powered startup funder. While crowdfunding in Africa has…

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