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Fund Your Innovation: Applications Open for Savant Capital’s Investment Program

Savant Capital is accepting applications from hardware engineers and scientists innovating in the green economy sector. Savant Capital, a leader in commercialising hardware engineering…

Village Capital announces the names of NextGen Ecosystem Builders Africa 2020 cohort

US venture capital (VC) company Village Capital has announced the names of the business advisors and hub representatives selected for its NextGen Ecosystem Builders Africa…

Almost 20 years on, two SA inventors haven’t given up bid to launch portable gym

After almost 20 years of trying to develop a mobile gym and fitness analytics machine, John van Niekerk and Newtown Fortuin are still at…

African tech startups can tap millions of dollars from new funds launched in 2019 [List]

While Africa’s venture capital (VC) sector remains small, there might be something to smile about for tech startups that operate on the continent. More…

SmartBlade co-founder Dr Caroline Corbett scoops Awief’s Tech Entrepreneur Award

Dr Caroline Corbett, the co-founder of Cape Town based medtech startup SmartBlade, has won the Tech Entrepreneur Award at the 2019 Awief Awards. Dr Corbett (pictured above…

Savant Venture Fund invests in security device startup Jonga [Updated]

Cape Town hardware tech incubator Savant‘s venture capital (VC) arm, the Savant Venture Fund, has announced that it has invested in Cape Town based…

SA hardware tech incubator Savant invests over R9m in medtech startup SmartBlade

SA hardware tech incubator Savant has invested R9.5-million in Cape Town based medtech startup SmartBlade. Savant venture fund manager Nick Allen (pictured above) —…

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…

Four Savant backed startups secure TIA seed grants totalling over R2.5m

Four startups incubated at Cape Town based hardware tech incubator Savant have secured seed grants totalling over R2.5-million from the incubator’s seed fund partner…

Hardware technology incubator Savant looking at setting up venture fund

Cape Town based hardware tech incubator Savant is considering setting up a venture fund which will likely be launched next year in the first quarter,…

Meet Quickloc8: from zero to an MVP demonstrator using R470k TIA grant [Updated]

Correction (12 June 2019): In the initial version of this article we reported that Quickloc8 received a R650 000 grant from the Technology Innovation…

SA incubator Savant in process of raising funding for 11 tech companies [Q&A]

Cape Town tech incubator Savant is busy raising funding for four of the 16 technology related companies in its portfolio — while pursuing second-round funding for another nine, the incubator’s…

SA startup Akili Labs to exhibit affordable mobile lab at US tech conference

Award-winning SA biotech startup Akili Labs has been selected to exhibit their mobile laboratory at the Collision Conference, one of the fastest growing tech conferences in…

State, private sector must partner to ride out Fourth Industrial Revolution – Zulu

“The only way to ride the wave of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is through partnership,” Small Business Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu said today at…

TIA increases seed funding per applicant to R650 000 for innovative projects

Looking to fund your innovative idea? The Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) has increased the amount in seed funding that entrepreneurs and innovators that develop…

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