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Omnisient raises $1.4-million in second funding round

Cape Town-based startup Omnisient has announced the close of a second funding round at $1.4-million. The company – re-incorporated in 2019 by founders Jon…

Local fintech partners with Telkom to launch payment innovation

Joburg-based fintech startup Ukheshe Technologies has partnered with Telkom, Mastercard and Nedbank to create a virtual card solution which helps users complete secure eCommerce…

Nedbank launches ultra-marathon to support small businesses

South African financial service provider, Nedbank has launched Nedbank Runified: Breaking Barriers, an ultra-marathon that is aimed at breaking the 50km world record and…

Money Message platform enables convenient payments to SA SMMEs

South African financial service provider Nedbank has partnered with Mastercard and local fintech Ukheshe to launch Money Message. Money Message is a new payment…

Nedbank launches Apple Pay for users

South African financial institution Nedbank has launched a new feature that enables users to utilise their iPhone and Apple Watch device to conduct secure…

First fully digital bank feed for local SMEs to launch

Small businesses and their financial advisors will soon have access to a first in South Africa, a fully digital API-enabled bank feed. Xero and…

Free business training initiative launches for SA informal micro-enterprises

A reported 9000 micro-enterprises in South Africa will be provided with free business and financial training. Established by Mastercard Centre for Inclusive Growth in…

Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [14/05/2020]

Kenyan business incubator Villgro Kenya has awarded $150 000 in grants to 12 innovative startups from East Africa with technologies and innovations that could help…

Nedbank details how small firms can tap Oppenheimer fund to cover employee wages

The Oppenheimer family have set up a new trust, the SA Future Trust (SAFT), to disburse the family’s R1-billion that it has pledged to…

Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [24/03/2020]

With the coronavirus (Covid-19) headlining news all over the world, Ventureburn has launched the first edition of a daily roundup on the virus and…

SA mobility tech company WhereIsMyTransport raises $7.5m Series-A round

Cape Town and London-based mobility data company WhereIsMyTransport has raised a $7.5-million Series A funding round. WhereIsMyTransport collects and provides access to public transport…

12 SA tech entrepreneurs who made headlines in 2019

This year, you could say, was full of drama for SA tech startups. From a public spat between well-known SA businessmen, a SA doctor…

Newly launched Stellenbosch Network aims to bring together innovators, entrepreneurs

A new organisation aims to bring Stellenbosch based innovators together to meet, share ideas and encourage collaboration and partnership in innovation and entrepreneurship. The…

Ukheshe, Mindbridge named winners of SA Reserve Bank’s global fintech hackcelerator

The SA Reserve Bank (Sarb) has named SA’s uKheshe and Canada’s MindBridge Analytics the winners of its 2019 Global Fintech Hackcelerator @ Southern Africa…

Here are eight SA fintechs that local banks are working with [Updated]

SA fintech startups are offering banks new ways to accept and make payments, lend out loans and offer financial services to the previously under…

Gugulethu entrepreneurs issue Nedbank with new summons but drop R280m bid [Updated]

UPDATE (23 August 2019): In a statement yesterday in response to the new summons issued by the two Gugulethu entrepreneurs, Nedbank again denied that…

We did not conspire with Nedbank against Gugulethu entrepreneurs – LaunchLab

Stellenbosch University business incubator LaunchLab says there is no truth to the allegation that it “conspired” with Nedbank to frustrate the efforts of two Gugulethu…

Nedbank denies it stole patent from Gugulethu entrepreneurs

Nedbank has “categorically” denied that it infringed on the commercial rights of two Gugulethu entrepreneurs relating to their patent. On Tuesday (18 June) Thandile…

SBC AfriTech to host corporate-focused hackathon for startups in Joburg

Is your startup looking to run pilots or proof of concepts with the likes of Old Mutual, RCS, BNP Paribas Personal Finance, Nedbank and PwC…

Nedbank claims digital first with launch of API marketplace for fintechs

Nedbank has launched the Nedbank API_Marketplace, an application programming interface (API) platform which the bank says will allow approved technical partners to create innovative…

SA startup Aerobotics secures R29m in funding from Paper Plane Ventures

SA aerial-data analytics startup Aerobotics announced this evening that it has received R29-million ($2-million) from local venture capital (VC) company Paper Plane Ventures in its latest…

SA’s Snapt on track for 1000% revenue growth after landing $3m investment

Two years after raising $1-million in funding, SA tech company Snapt this week landed $3-million from three local investors — Nedbank, Sanari Capital and Convergence Partners (which took part in…

Over 200 business heads attend Nedbank, Plug and Play’s The Disruption Agenda

The Disruption Agenda — a new platform initiated by SA bank Nedbank in partnership with Silicon Valley accelerator Plug and Play — saw over 200 top business leaders and innovation thinkers…

Everlytic Launches Cutting-Edge AI Studio with WhatsApp Chatbots for Smarter Communication

Everlytic’s new API Communicator feature enhances customer engagement across multiple channels

Huawei’s All-Optical smart-home showcase unleashes a new era of home connectivity in Africa

Simplicity at scale: The role of leadership in agile transformation

Generative AI: A return to the early Internet’s dawn

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Honor Magic V3 launches, four things to know

Honor Magic V3, a Guinness world record attempt

CHARGE taking EVs off-grid in the North West

eActros 300 and Zimi Charge creates EV win for Bakers

Carlos Tavares exit doesn’t solve Stellantis issues