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Transformation and Empowerment Conference 2019

The Top Empowerment, South Africa's premier transformation platform, will host its 5th Annual conference in Johannesburg on 10 and 11 April. The leading empowerment knowledge-sharing platform in the country, the event will arm business leaders with the latest insights into transformation and identify opportunities to help businesses thrive. Aiming to accelerate empowerment in South Africa...

Urbantech global accelerator program open for startups within the urban tech space.

The Urbantech program is a global accelerator program for startups within the urban tech space. Together with the partners of the program, startups will scale their businesses and further the development of sustainable cities. The program will run through 2019-2021, admitting 10 startups in each cycle. The Urbantech program is a world-class accelerator for high potential...

Visa Everywhere Initiative: Women’s Global Edition

Visa Everywhere Initiative is a global innovation program that tasks start-ups to solve payment challenges of tomorrow, further enhance their own product propositions and provide visionary solutions for Visa's vast network of partners. The program first launched in the U.S. in 2015 and quickly expanded into other regions of the world with more than 4,000 participating...

Future Females, UK-SA Tech Hub partner to train 50 SA women tech entrepreneurs

Future Females has confirmed a partnership with UK - SA Tech Hub - a newly established UK Government initiative established to build links between tech businesses in the UK and South Africa. The Hub will specifically aim to support local tech entrepreneurship, cultivate digital skills and promote opportunities for youth and women in the...

African startups can get big funding with launch of Ampion Ventures

Ampion Venture is a profit and impact-driven company builder with the goal to develop and grow innovative business models in the fields of agriTech, EnergyTech, and FinTech in Africa. They support the world’s strongest entrepreneurs through investment, operational and strategic support in establishing sustainable start-ups that generate revenue and create jobs to revolutionize Africa’s...

SAB Foundation opens entries for Social Innovation, Disability Employment Awards

The SAB Foundation has opened applications for its ninth annual Social Innovation Awards, as well as the fourth annual Disability Empowerment Awards. In this year’s awards, the SAB Foundation will hand out a total of R12-million in prize money. Winners will receive prizes ranging between R200 000 and R1.3-million. The SAB Foundation finds, supports and scales social innovations – through...

SEED Awards 2019: Call for Applications are OPEN for eco-inclusive enterprises

SEED has launched the SEED Awards 2019 . This year, up to 66 prize packages will be awarded to locally-driven early-stage enterprises, that leverage their innovative business solutions to solve social and environmental challenges in Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malawi, South Africa, Thailand, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Enterprises that fulfil the following eligibility criteria are encouraged to apply: a)...

AWS Pop-up Loft | Johannesburg

The AWS Pop-up Loft | Johannesburg is a temporary events & community space where you can access AWS technical training, enjoy the co-working facilities, book one-to-one support with AWS experts and get free coffee and access to wi-fi. Located in the central hub of Sandton, the AWS Loft will host a packed programme of sessions...

Africa’s First Edtech-dedicated Incubation & Seed Investment Programme

The Injini Cohort 3 programme will launch in May 2019. For this, 8 start-ups from across Africa will join the programme for 4 months during which we will deliver workshops, mentoring and networking as well as technology, research and dedicated support from the Injini team. As part of this revised programme, each start-up will...

SA Innovation Summit 2019 Pitching Den Competition Entries Open

The SA Innovation Summit Pitching Den competition aims to promote and develop the entrepreneurial creativity of startups, able and willing to disrupt the status-quo, to showcase their ground-breaking products or services, to gain visibility across government officials, local, regional and international investors and industry titans, and to secure financial and business support in the...