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Vinny Lingham’s Civic launches consumer-first digital wallet

US based SA entrepreneur Vinny Lingham’s startup Civic, has launched its Civic Wallet on the App Store and Google Play. Civic, a leading innovator…

LionPride Agility Fund invests in SA healthtech BusyMed

SA healthtech startup BusyMed has raised an undisclosed amount of investment from the R500-million LionPride Agility Fund. Neither the investor nor the startup disclosed the…

Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [07/05/2020]

SA startup Foonda has launched a website that aims to link students with scholarships, bursaries, learnerships and other sponsorship opportunities. This, while GreenFingers Mobile has…

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…

Imperial and Vinny Lingham’s Newtown Partners launch $20m corporate VC fund [Updated]

UPDATE (11 March 2020): A PR representative for Newtown Partners told Ventureburn subsequent to the publication of this story that select startups across Africa…

Vinny Lingham linked VC fund has secured 20% of Mara Phone’s SA master franchise [Updated]

UPDATE (14 January 2020): While Silicon Valley based SA entrepreneur Vinny Lingham is linked to the LionPride Agility Fund, which secured a 20% cut…

How to land funding with Vinny Lingham’s LionPride Agility Fund

SA has a new-ish tech fund on the block, the R500-million LionPride Agility Fund — linked to Silicon Valley based SA entrepreneur Vinny Lingham….

The tech sector in SA is still a hot place to be [Opinion]

South Africa’s economic outlook may be gloomy, with annual growth forecast to barely past 1.5% over the next three years, but things are still…

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…

Here’s what late Matt Buckland had to say about these big tech, advertising personalities

Vinny Lingham, Koos Bekker, Matt Mullenweg. These are just three big tech and advertising personalities that the late Matthew Buckland mentions in his new…

Matthew Buckland shares all in brutally honest memoir [Review]

The late Matthew Buckland was an icon and a digital pioneer in his field. The story of how he got there, detailed in the…

Everything you need to know about the South African cryptocurrency ecosystem

While things may have quietened down on the crypto front after 2018’s massive fall in the price of Bitcoin, there’s still significant interest from entrepreneurs…

Vinny Lingham’s Newtown Partners invests in crypto exchange Ovex

Silicon Valley based SA entrepreneur Vinny Lingham has invested an undisclosed sum in Ovex, a Cape Town based cryptocurrency exchange, through his VC firm…

Why we invested in Augmentors game – Llew Claasen, Vinny Lingham [Updated]

Assembling a team with the right skills has been a key challenge in the development of the Augmentors game, which claims to be the world’s first augmented…

I am well known to be fake ICO adviser – Vinny Lingham on misrepresentation

Silicon Valley based SA entrepreneur Vinny Lingham says he has lost track of the number of times he has appeared on initial coin offerings (ICOs)…

Springleap’s Eran Eyal misrepresented me as Shopin adviser – Vinny Lingham [Updated]

UDPATE: SA entrepreneur Vinny Lingham subsequently told Ventureburn that he received no documentation or information from Shopin’s Eran Eyal on his shareholding in Shopin, despite Eyal…

Five South African fintech dealmakers your startup should meet

Fintech is one of the fastest growing startup sectors in the world. A number of SA startups have secured multi-million rand investments of late,…

Identity.com a ‘first-of-kind’ for secure identity verification says Vinny Lingham

South African entrepreneur and Civic founder Vinny Lingham has announced the name of his new decentralised identity ecosystem – Identity.com. In a blog post yesterday East London…

Startup scene ‘absolutely exploded’ after Silicon Cape launch – Justin Stanford

Silicon Cape must continue to help trying to promote and grow Cape Town’s tech startup community and to represent the idea of startups in…

Silicon Cape to engage local tech community to help forge new strategy

What does Silicon Cape really do? What should it be doing and who should it be serving? These are some of the key questions…

15 people in the SA tech startup ecosystem you should follow in 2018

The new year is upon us. What better way to get started than to follow and connect with key decision makers in the SA…

Here are 12 SA tech entrepreneurs who made headlines in Ventureburn in 2017

From selling their startup for over a billion rand, to turning air into water — here are 12 South African entrepreneurs who made headlines…

SA’s Vinny Lingham joins investment platform’s token sale advisory board

South African entrepreneur and Civic founder Vinny Lingham will join investment platform BnkToTheFuture‘s token sale advisory board. In a press release yesterday, BnkToTheFuture said executives from Civic, Smith…

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