Tech portal and advisory service AppsAfrica.com has opened entries for the 2018 AppsAfrica Innovation Awards set to be held on 12 November in Cape Town. Applications close 7 September, with finalists set to be announced on 8 October. The annual awards now in their fourth year, are open to startups and corporates which have launched...
Standard Bank has launched a new campaign to help South Africa’s budding entrepreneurs turn their side hustles into their main hustles by providing them with funding equivalent to as much as one year’s salary in order to encourage them to take the plunge and start their own business without the fear of losing their...
After breaking award records on the 2017 edition, 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. Local winners will be invited to represent their country at the Regional Summit in...
Our labour laws are constantly evolving as the South African government seeks to balance stronger protections for employees with the need to create a business-friendly investment climate. We can expect to see a number of amendments to the country’s core labour law acts – the Basic Conditions of Employment Act and the Unemployment Insurance...
The UCT Graduate School of Business’s Solution Space is offering 15 start-ups incubation to the value of R300 000 in advisory services, mentorship, and co-working space per start-up. Entrepreneurs have just less than a month left to apply to its 2018 Venture Incubation Programme (VIP) winter school based in Cape Town. Applications for the 15...
With the world in the centre of the digital/innovative age more and more start-ups have embraced paperless ideals and strategies. This means when entrepreneurs are in the planning stages of their business they would tend to use the latest and most innovative methods to complete a business plan/model canvas. There are apps, programmes and...
Most successful entrepreneurs credit a mentor or mentors. Not surprisingly many entrepreneurs who “have made it” will have more than their fair share of mentorship requests. Anja Van Beek offers MUST-DOS to help both parties rise to the challenges of mentorship. Find out what you are really in for when you do say yes. Read more Source:...
The most active investors in African startups were recently revealed in Disrupt Africa’s 2017 African Tech Startups Funding Report. The list is dominated by US-based venture capital (VC) funds with the exception of Algebra Ventures, an Egyptian venture fund; Kalon Ventures, a South Africa-based section 12J venture capital fund and Nigeria’s Ventures Platform. These investors prove that...
MTN Solution Space has opened applications to its 2018 Venture Incubation Programme (VIP). To be considered for the programme, applicants should already have an initial concept development showing a deep understanding of the market environment and potential problems. The solutions must also be innovation-driven and scalable. The programme aims to provide participating startups with mentorship, access to...
Applications have opened for the SBC FastTrack World which will kick off in Cape Town on the 19 February 2018. This follows last year’s launch of SBC’s first-ever Africa-based programme, Startupbootcamp Cape Town. Startupbootcamp conducts the annual tours as a way to scout for top-tier startups from around the world. During these, SBC teams, mentors and sponsors meet...
