Google last week launched a new social media service called Shoelace on its Area 120 experimental projects platform. Shoelace aims to keep users “in…
10 tips on how to raise venture capital in South Africa [Opinion]
Entrepreneurs constantly disrupt the balance of competition by unlocking inventive commercial opportunities and creating new markets in doing so. This can sometimes be done…
More private equity firms to participate in later stage million-dollar VC deals
Obasanjo-Adeleye said last year she’d noted what she described as an “interesting trend” in the increasing number and rising participation of private equity firms in later stage transactions in the “tens of millions”.
Section 12J VC incentive a good start, but government can do more [Opinion]
The world of startups is a risky choice for an investor. But there is a clever way you can reduce that risk, and that…
Naspers to launch R1.4bn fund to back SA tech startups
SA investor Naspers has announced that it plans to next year launch a R1.4-billion (about $96-million) startup fund to boost the SA tech firms. The initiative…
