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Equity-based crowdfunding: GoGetta kickstarts start-ups

Quality African businesses with growth prospects that seek funding can now raise capital via an innovative crowdfunding platform, GoGetta. South African and international angel…

Global Wealth Group unlocks real estate opportunities with FinTech

In 2020 the global real estate market was valued at over $320 trillion, making property worth almost four times the global gross domestic product….

Three crowdfunding platforms for African tech startups

With the global pandemic impacting African SMEs and startup’s financial revenue, Ventureburn has highlighted three crowdfunding platforms that aim to assist African startups. NaijaFund,…

Five South African crowdfunding platforms

Ventureburn has highlighted five crowdfunding platforms that aim to assist startups with funding. The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of supporting local businesses…

DoshEx launches property investment crowdfunding service for SA investors

SA blockchain startup DoshEx has launched DoshProp, a new property investment crowdfunding service which allows ordinary South Africans to invest in property — and the…

Unclear when Mauritius will introduce planned crowdfunding regulations [Updated]

UPDATE (7 August 2019): Paul Perrier, the co-founder of Mauritian based crowdlending platform Fundkiss told Ventureburn in a call today that the new regulations had been…

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…

How we raised R29m in seven days via crowdfunding – Intergreatme man [Q&A] [Updated]

UPDATE (10 December 2019): While Intergreatme’s equity crowdfunding campaign closed with the startup having raised a total of R32,601,000 against a targeted raise of…

SA’s Intergreatme sets Africa crowdfunding record with over R28m raised in just days [Updated]

UPDATE (10 December 2019): While Intergreatme’s equity crowdfunding campaign closed with the startup having raised a total of R32,601,000 against a targeted raise of…

In’s and out’s of investing on equity crowdfunding site Uprise.Africa [Q&A]

SA equity crowdfunding platform Uprise.Africa last week launched its third campaign, with SA mobility startup Lüla seeking to raise R2.5-million by late May, in return for…

JustLaundry to use novel way to raise R7.2m on local crowdfunding site

Johannesburg based crowdfunding platform The People’s Fund today announced that it offering customers the opportunity to own up to 40% of a laundromat company by simply…

SA crowdfunding site The People’s Fund in first payout of R43k to 42 investors

Ten months after launching, Johannesburg based crowdfunding platform The People’s Fund has made its first payout of R43 800 to 42 investors who earlier this year…

Online lender Rainfin sells majority stake in business to bankroll new R1bn fund

SA online lending platform RainFin has effectively sold its business to its current BEE shareholders, the LeBashe Investment Group. The deal, announced last week on the lender’s blog, will enable Rainfin to…

Craft brewer Drifter raises R1m in first day of equity crowdfunding campaign [Updated]

Cape Town-based Drifter Brewing Company has raised over R1-million, hours after its equity crowdfunding campaign went live on equity crowdfunding platform Uprise.Africa. The craft brewer…

EasyEquities puts startup crowdfunding offering ‘on hold until further notice’

Investment platform EasyEquities has put its crowdfunding startup investment offering, which was set to launch tomorrow (1 February), on hold until further notice. Purple Group vice-president…

Uprise.Africa to launch first crowdfunding campaign this month says COO Schofield

Equity crowdfunding platform Uprise.Africa is set to launch its first campaign later this month for a project aimed at funding the publication of more African literature,…

A look at 2017: the year that was for South Africa’s tech startup ecosystem

This year saw one of the biggest acquisitions of a South African startup – with the over $100-million GetSmarter deal. A chance meeting with 2U…

Exclusive: Startupbootcamp Cape Town, EasyEquities to crowdfund first cohort

Startupbootcamp Cape Town has partnered with investment platform EasyEquities to crowdfund the 10 startups that last week graduated from the initiative’s inaugural programme. The announcement…

SA lending platform Prodigy Finance chose London for ‘pro-business regulation’

Cape Town founder of multi-million dollar lending platform Prodigy Finance Cameron Stevens says the “pro-business” regulation of the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority was key in his decision…

Just 26% of business loans by SA banks go to SMEs reveals OECD survey

Just 26% of business lending by banks in South Africa go to startups and SMEs, which is lower than in a number of other…

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…

Consumer lending has dropped to ‘almost zero’ under new regulations – Rainfin CEO

Consumer lending on marketplace lending platform RainFin has ground to a halt since the new National Credit Regulations threshold came into effect on 11…

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