Innovation City is proud to announce that Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has been given an Honorary Award for his dedication and efforts to make Cape Town a great place to do business. Mayor Hill-Lewis expressed his gratitude for the award in his acceptance speech, which he sent...
It was Anneli Kampfer’s searing and apocalyptic song “Eve of Destruction” that inspired Sweden’s rather unorthodox ambassador to South Africa, Håkan Juholt, to gather an eclectic group of experts to share ideas on how to end the huge crises facing South Africa – and the...
South Africa has been put on the map as a “big four” tech start-up ecosystem, with partnerships in the tech space skyrocketing in Africa over the last few years, writes Ashleigh Butterworth, content marketing specialist at Finch Technologies. Africa is fertile ground for technological advances and...
Cape Town - With doom and gloom dominating conversations on the energy crisis, representatives from local solar energy companies, climate finance platforms and the government gathered to discuss how this crisis could be used to harness South Africa’s potential to become one of the biggest...
Chris Heaton is the Founder & Managing Director of Skrmiish, a gaming app which provides unique Play-to-Earn technology that enables gamers to choose from hundreds of personalised & on-demand challenges to complete in their next match. This adds a layer of excitement and more importantly,...
We are a well-read team! Here’s our list of business books we recommend for you to read in 2023 1. The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail - Clayton Christensen The best-known work of Harvard professor and businessman Clayton Christensen. It expands on...
Shopstar is a South African e-commerce company providing solutions to help entrepreneurs with their online businesses. We talk to Shopstar CEO, Chris Edington, a self-confessed entrepreneur, who enjoys starting, growing and managing tech and software businesses. Q:What is your company about, and why are you sorely needed in...
According to McKinsey, global advances in technology give businesses, governments, and social-sector institutions more ability to increase productivity, invent and reinvent offerings, and contribute to humanity’s well-being overall. The same can be said for tech advances in Africa, with just over $4 billion raised by...
YellowSpot is an innovative venture studio, specializing in ideating and bringing BehaviorTech ventures to market. Their contribution to the world is that they conceptualize awesome products and ventures that really help consumers and customers make the soft skills tangible and shift outcomes that are specifically...
Darren de Abreu is the Founder and CEO of Strapp, a peer-to-peer rental marketplace which enables you to rent out possessions you hardly use to others in your community. Q: Who are you guys as a company and on the whole, and why are you sorely needed in...