Aisha Pandor

Alitheia IDF leads $11m investment round in SweepSouth

SweepSouth, an online home services platform with presence across Africa, today announced that it has completed an $11 million investment round led by Alitheia…

How businesses can empower SMEs in South Africa

In a nation beset by unemployment, it is vital to provide new work opportunities. Experts warn South Africa’s collective future will remain unknown unless…

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…

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…

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