Innovation City brings together companies working at the frontier of technology, business, and customer experience. One of our newest members, Nineteen58, is an AI-native services company focused on building custom AI agents that help enterprises solve real operational problems, particularly in customer acquisition, service, and...
Innovation City brings together founders, creatives, and technology teams building globally relevant businesses. Among them is Plan.Net Creativenest South Africa, a digital-first creative studio and part of the international House of Communication network. Working across social-first creativity, digital campaigns, UX/UI design, and scalable content production, the...
Inspired by insights from Devina Maharaj, Head of API Channel, Investec At Innovation City, we see hundreds of founders and operators wrestling with the same issue every week: how to scale operations without drowning in admin, manual work, or outdated financial processes. While AI, automation and cloud...
Saab Grintek Defence is best known for its work in advanced defence technologies, but behind the engineering sits a longer-term ambition: building South Africa’s next generation of highly skilled technologists and engineers. Through its local operations in Pretoria and Cape Town, Saab Grintek Defence is using...
There’s a quiet shift happening in marketing right now. Search isn’t what it used to be. Social isn’t what it used to be. AI isn’t a future concept anymore. And attention - real human attention - has become the most valuable currency in the room! This year's...
Innovation City is the home of choice for the launch of the new Talent Hub, a collaborative initiative in partnership with the Swedish Consulate, Saab Grintek Defence, and Bitprop. This important event (happening at IC on 11 Feb) brings together global and local voices to explore...
At Innovation City, we often get to see founders at the moment where ideas harden into execution. In our last feature of founder Marnus Coetsee and Pro'Tech Rugby, the company was still in deep exploration mode, questioning what real innovation in rugby safety could look...
Every so often, someone reaches out to ask how our event curation works and can they put their name forward as a potential speaker. They’d been following Innovation City for a while. They’ve attended an event or two. They’ve built something interesting, or formed a strong...
Inside Innovation City, we spend a lot of time with founders making real decisions: Where to build. Where to hire. Where to keep capital, or move it. As we head into 2026, one question keeps surfacing in conversations across our community: Does South Africa still make sense as a place...
Most startup legal problems don’t start as legal problems. They start as misaligned expectations between co-founders, informal decisions made under pressure, or assumptions that “we’ll sort it out later.” By the time lawyers are brought in, those early choices are often expensive or impossible to...
