LaunchLab together with partners Nedbank, Santam, Mercedes-Benz SA and WineTech has recently launched the second semester of its 2018 LaunchLab Ideas Programme. The aim of this programme is to accelerate entrepreneurs on their journey to build successful businesses. LaunchLab’s mission is to facilitate valuable connections for startups and corporates, to accelerate access to market for the...
Are you an early stage start-up based in Southern Africa? Are you working at the cutting edge of innovation and would like to run a collaboration project with Merck to solve real-life problems? Is your startup innovation related to Healthcare, Life Sciences, and Performance Materials and our innovation focus areas? If you have answered yes...
2018 Seedstars World, the largest startup competition for emerging markets, is back in Africa to scout for the top high growth startups and entrepreneurs and accelerate them on their path to global scaling. On this 2018 edition of the tour, we will visit over 20+ cities across Sub-Saharan Africa to hosting bootcamps and pitch competitions, Countries...
IBM South Africa plans to next month run a six-week long acceleration bootcamp next month together with Joburg incubator Tshimologong Precinct. The bootcamp is being run as part of IBM’s Equity Equivalence Investment Programme. Under the Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) codes multinationals that are reluctant to give away ownership can provide the equivalent value in training black people or assisting...
South Africa startups can now submit applications for the 2019 edition of The Chivas Venture $1-million global innovation competition. Chivas Regal announced the launch of this year’s edition on Monday (10 September). The innovation competition is aimed at innovative startups that are using business to solve social and environmental issues. The competition was first launched in 2014. A applicants...
SAVCA & SiMODiSA will be hosting Venture Capital Office Hours in Johannesburg and Cape Town. This is an opportunity for entrepreneurs to have dedicated one on one time with a South African Venture Capitalist to offer them guidance and insights on any business challenges that they may be experiencing. Only two entrepreneurs will be...
The Grindstone Accelerator is Knife Capital’s structured entrepreneurship development programme that assists high-growth innovation-driven companies to become sustainable and fundable. Grindstone supplies 10 companies annually with knowledge, networks and funding readiness through growth measurement, gap analysis and deep interventions designed to build a foundation for growth, transfer skills, create relevant business networks and enable these companies to...
How AI can help generate a self-sustaining growth in the AgriTech industry? VIVA Technology is looking for the best disruptive tech startups in AFRICA. They are specifically looking for AI based technologies, product or services that would: > help predict and monitor climatic impacts (using data and predictive schemes…) and/or assets >> integrate with existing systems and infrastructures, including in...
Apply to get a chance to work on a collaboration project with existing Merck’s innovation projects. Are you an early stage start-up based in Southern Africa? Are you working at the cutting edge of innovation and would like to run a collaboration project with Merck to solve real-life problems? Is your startup innovation related to...
SAP Next-Gen and Startupbootcamp (SBC) AfriTech have partnered to launch the Epic SDG Water Challenge, an initiative which seeks to tap startup innovation to accelerate solutions around clean water and sanitation. Entries for the challenge close on 12 September. From next month to January selected startups will collaborate with corporates to rapidly scale solutions for water-resource management challenges with potential...
