Startup Grind Cape Town is proud to host Alan Knott-Craig Jr, founder of Project Isizwe and chairman of Herotel, Ever Africa, and Hapino NPC. In 2010 he founded and became CEO of World of Avatar, an investment house for apps for Africa and later acquired and became CEO of Mxit, Africa’s biggest social network. He left Mxit and World of Avatar and later founded and became the CEO of project Isizwe, a non-profit company managing the deployment of the largest public Free Wi-Fi network in South Africa. He has funded 21 companies in the tech industry.