any new small businesses go through the struggle of finding capital to start-up of expand their businesses. Government funding and grants can be a worthwhile way to get the funds that you need. There are a lot of important things you need to be aware of such as: Strict criteria, a lot of paperwork and...
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...
VC4A is looking for 8 innovative, high-growth scale-ups to showcase at Africa Early Stage Investor Summit on Nov 11-12 in Cape Town. Are you operating in Africa, generating revenue and looking to raise your Series A round in the range of $250K and $5M? This is the opportunity you’ve been looking for! In 2017, they've showcased 20...
Entries are now open for the fourth annual AppsAfrica Innovation Awards which celebrate the best in mobile and tech from across Africa, showcasing the continent’s most innovative ventures. The awards provide winners with industry recognition, global publicity, and networking with 300+ industry peers at the Awards party in Cape Town on November 12th on the...
The report analyses a unique data set, provided by Finfind, of SMME funders and SMMEs seeking finance. It was sponsored by the SA SME Fund and identifies access to finances challenges, gaps and potential solutions. The Finfind 2017 cleaned data sample of 11 033 SMME funding requests is larger than the South African GEM...
SAVCA & SiMODiSA will be hosting Venture Capital Office Hours in Johannesburg. 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 selected to participate. Date:...
Now in its third year, the competition has matured, from a pure “challenge and awards” model into a broader event, including both awards and a conference – promoting knowledge and best practice sharing for developers and buyers in the connected infrastructure and Internet of Things space. IoT technology is transforming the worlds of business, retail,...
Access to early stage development funding for up-and-coming businesses in South Africa remains a key hindrance standing in the way of entrepreneurial development. There are, however, numerous strategies to finance your business’s launch, or early stage development. One of these tactics is to secure seed finance or seed capital investment. The money you need to launch...
The Unicef Innovation Fund is looking to make up to $100K equity-free investments to provide early stage (seed) finance to for-profit technology start-ups that have the potential to benefit humanity through the use of drones. They are currently looking to invest in a group of companies developing drone solutions, including; software to collect, share and analyse data...
Looking for up to $120k in investment? US seed accelerator Y Combinator (YC) has opened applications for its winter 2019 funding cycle. Interested startups have until 2 October to apply. On their website the accelerator notes that sometime between late October and early December, they will invite the best startups to meet with their representatives in Mountain View (Silicon Valley), California...
