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SA home services portal Kandua closes ‘significant’ funding round

Joburg-based home services marketplace Kandua announced the close of a “significant” pre-series A funding round in a statement today. The round was led by…

Knife Capital’s African Series B Expansion Fund receives $10-million

A South African venture capital company, Knife Capital has secured $10million towards its Series B Expansion Fund from Mineworkers Investment Company. Knife Capital secures…

Knife Capital launches second 12J Venture Capital Fund

Cape Town-based venture capital (VC) company Knife Capital has announced the launch of its second Section 12J Venture Capital fund for new investors to…

InQuba closes expansion capital funding round

A world-leader in Customer Journey Management, inQuba, has announced the close of an expansion capital round from venture capital firm Knife Capital and leading African corporate and…

Cape Town-based tech startup secures $6-million funding

An award-winning AI manufacturing company and South African tech startup, DataProphet, has raised $6-million in funding. The innovative tech startup aims to utilise the…

Top startup web events in South Africa, Africa you should know about this week [13/04/2020] [Updated]

On Wednesday (15 April) LaunchLab CEO and entrepreneur Josh Romisher will detail his top five lessons from building a business in Africa. Tomorrow join…

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…

Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [03/04/2020]

US based SA entrepreneur and Civic founder Vinny Lingham has been under a lockdown for two weeks now and has been stockpiling food since…

Fresh from netting R25m, Grindstone Accelerator will go ahead despite coronavirus

The next cohort of SA’s Grindstone Accelerator due to start in June, will go ahead, despite the threat of the coronavirus, the programme’s directors…

Top startup events in South Africa, Africa you should know about this week [09/02/2020]

This week Future Females will be launching its first workshop in Philippi Village, Cape Town, in partnership with the UK-SA Tech Hub on Wednesday…

Changes to Section 12J VC regime won’t spell doom for all funds says venture capitalist

Experts last year raised concern over new deductions limits for investors under Section 12J of the Income Tax Act, saying it will reduce the…

Tech startups likely to weather SA’s economic slowdown say venture capitalists

South Africa’s economic outlook is grim. With the prospect of further power blackouts looming and struggling state-owned entities on the brink of failure, the…

SA’s Hlayisani Growth Fund mulling 12 deals after having invested R200m so far

Hlayisani Growth Fund, a SA fund that aims to make later-stage investments in African small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), is mulling 12 potential new…

‘SA SME Fund set to be among country’s biggest institutional investors by year end’

South Africa’s R1.4-billion SA SME Fund has thus far approved R1-billion for investment in a number of funds that will lend to small businesses…

SA edtech Snapplify snaps up over R29m in expansion capital from funders

Cape Town edtech company Snapplify announced today that it had raised $2-million (over R29-million) in expansion capital. The money was raised from two SA…

Raising funding in Africa? Here are 12 venture capitalists you should know about

If you’re reading this, chances are you’re a tech startup founder who is looking to raise venture capital (VC) funding. The good news is…

Grindstone Accelerator helps firms in fourth cohort grow revenue by 36%, add 32 jobs

Business has taken off for Ryno Goosen and his geospatial data analytics company Locstat Systems, after he and his co-founders got valuable sales and marketing…

One-size-fits-all view on Africa and other mistakes VCs make

A one-size-fits-all view of the African market or simply transplanting Silicon Valley startup models on the continent, will doom those looking to invest in…

Meet the 10 startups selected for Grindstone Accelerator’s fifth cohort

Venture capital (VC) company Knife Capital today announced the names of the 10 companies selected for its fifth Grindstone Accelerator programme. The names of the companies — which…

Andza competition to offer SA startups chance at nettting up to R10m in funding, acceleration

The SA Innovation Summit and the SA SME Fund have launched the Andza competition which aims to give startups a chance at netting up…

Jozi-based closed-loop payments startup Allxs out to raise R10m funding round

Allxs, a Joburg-based startup that has developed a closed-loop cashless payments platform, is looking to raise a R10-million funding round, its founder Raphael Domalik…

Here are the eight funds that the SA SME Fund will invest in

The R1.4-billion SA SME Fund — which was officially launched yesterday in Johannesburg by President Cyril Ramaphosa but which has already begun disbursing investments…

Grindstone Accelerator launches call to startups for first Gauteng cohort [Updated]

Venture capital (VC) company Knife Capital has joined forces with the SA SME Fund and Deloitte to launch the next iteration of its Grindstone…

Study reveals South Africa’s global ranking for Digital Quality of Life

Cape Town’s MyCiTi to discontinue cash loading on myconnect card

Engen Pitch & Polish winners secure R1-million in prizes

SA entrepreneurs’ pet gear brand wins global award

Nestlé partners with local tech startup to empower informal waste reclaimers

Your biggest questions about the HUAWEI nova Y60 answered

Nintendo Switch OLED gets price for South Africa

Apple launches iOS 15: The biggest highlights

Road test: Ford Ranger XLT Double Cab FX4 4×4

VW launches mobile game tie-in for local Golf GTi 8 launch

Three great cars under R400 000 in South Africa