Aisha Pandor

Top startup web events in South Africa, Africa you should know about this week [20/04/2020]

This Wednesday (22 April) LifeQ will host Aisha Pandor, the co-founder and CEO of SweepSouth, Africa’s first online platform for home cleaning services. Then,…

Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [07/04/2020]

Just days after it launched the Sukuma Relief Programme, which will disburse R1-billion from the Rupert Family to small businesses, fund administrator Business Partners…

Top startup web events in South Africa, Africa you should know about this week [06/04/2020] [Updated]

Tomorrow the Grindstone Accelerator will be hosting four live video streaming micro-sessions of their popular full day Find-Make-Grow-Realise (FMGR) programme. This, while serial entrepreneur and…

My parents said I was crazy to start a business, SweepSouth’s Aisha Pandor reveals in podcast

Save three years’ worth of salary. That’s what SweepSouth co-founder Aisha Pandor’s mother — the Minister of Foreign Affairs Naledi Pandor — advised her…

My parents said I was crazy to start a business, SweepSouth’s Aisha Pandor reveals in podcast

Save three years’ worth of salary. That’s what SweepSouth co-founder Aisha Pandor’s mother — the Minister of Foreign Affairs Naledi Pandor — advised her…

Cape Town startup SweepSouth raises over R50m in new funding round

UPDATE (20 December 2019: SweepSouth co-founder Aisha Pandor confirmed with Ventureburn today that the round was in fact valued at over R60-million and included…

Eight SA tech startups with women founders that have recently had VC, angel deals [Updated]

UPDATE (14 August 2019): We neglected to include Smartblade’s R9.5-million investment from Savant in the below list. We have updated the list as well…

Naspers Foundry announces its first investment, with R30m in SweepSouth

UPDATE (20 December 2019: SweepSouth co-founder Aisha Pandor confirmed with Ventureburn today that the R30-million was part of an investment round which the startup…

Will these startups still have an uncle, parent in Ramaphosa’s cabinet?

UPDATE (30 May): Naledi Pandor, Tito Mboweni and Aaron Motsoaledi all returned to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s newly named cabinet on Wednesday (29 May) as ministers of…

88 Business Collective honours Locumbase, SweepSouth founders

Two SA female tech founders — Locumbase founder Zulé Vuuren and SweepSouth co-founder Aisha Pandor — have been honoured by Cape Town accelerator 88 Business Collective and Absa…

CiTi adds three new board members to back move to expand support initiatives

The Cape Innovation and Technology Initiative (CiTi) has announced the appointment of three additional directors to its board to support the organisation as it expands its…

Here are SA’s Inspiring Fifty women in technology for 2017

Non-profit organisation Inspiring Fifty, an initiative of the Dutch Consulate General in Cape Town together with Inspiring Fifty Netherlands, has announced the names of its…

SA should learn from Silicon Valley sexual harassment says SweepSouth founder

South African startups and those that help entrepreneurs should learn from the sexual harrasment exposes that have rocked Silicon Valley recently, says SweepSouth founder Aisha Pandor. Speaking…

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…

Women have more advantage over men, says top SA female entrepreneur

Women in South Africa have more of an advantage over men when it comes to starting a business because of the large number of business…

SweepSouth weighs in on experience at Silicon Valley’s 500 Startups accelerator

SweepSouth is a having a good first year. Just after the South African on-demand domestic cleaning startup secured its first investment, it was accepted by…

Google now officially owns Fitbit

Eskom announces Stage 2 loadshedding for next few days

New report calls for changes to VC strategy in Africa

SA fintech partners with TransUnion to increase financial access for locals

Impact Investment and the growing shift toward meaningful finance in Africa [Opinon]

Samsung Galaxy S21 and S21 Ultra announced: price and details for South Africa

A third of gamers in South Africa hide their hobby from parents

Asus Flow X13 and XG Mobile: A convertible gaming laptop with external graphics card – price for South Africa

Great news for Toyota hot hatch fans – GR Yaris confirmed for South Africa

Honda WV-R: High-riding ‘Jazz’ now in South Africa

The new Hyundai i10 is a Grand deal

Aisha Pandor

Top startup web events in South Africa, Africa you should know about this week [20/04/2020]

Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [07/04/2020]

My parents said I was crazy to start a business, SweepSouth’s Aisha Pandor reveals in podcast

My parents said I was crazy to start a business, SweepSouth’s Aisha Pandor reveals in podcast

Cape Town startup SweepSouth raises over R50m in new funding round

Eight SA tech startups with women founders that have recently had VC, angel deals [Updated]

Naspers Foundry announces its first investment, with R30m in SweepSouth

Will these startups still have an uncle, parent in Ramaphosa’s cabinet?

88 Business Collective honours Locumbase, SweepSouth founders

CiTi adds three new board members to back move to expand support initiatives

Here are SA’s Inspiring Fifty women in technology for 2017

SA should learn from Silicon Valley sexual harassment says SweepSouth founder

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

Women have more advantage over men, says top SA female entrepreneur

SweepSouth weighs in on experience at Silicon Valley’s 500 Startups accelerator

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