Neil Schreuder, Chief Strategy Officer of the Shoprite Group and MD of ShopriteX, the Shoprite Group’s tech and innovation hub, calls the team 'humble baked beans salesmen,' but the group’s impressive stats say otherwise: Shoprite has become Africa’s largest retailer worth R168bn, with 1.12bn customers...
There’s no doubt that tech is changing the world at a rapid rate. Future careers, across all disciplines, are more and more reliant on computer-based skills, while skills in data science in particular, are scarce and currently in high demand. Last year, the South African Basic...
Cape Town - 26th May 2022 The Tutu Tribe Entrepreneurship Academy was presented on Saturday the 21st of May at an intimate dinner hosted by Sir Richard Branson at his Mont Rochelle farm in Franschhoek, Cape Town. The creation of the Academy falls in line with the...
In February 2022, South African meal kit delivery startup UCOOK was fully acquired by Silvertree Holdings in a deal worth R187 million (US$12.3 million). Founded six years ago on borrowed money from family and operating from a garage in Newlands, this dinner kit delivery service...
I sit at the door of my daughter’s room watching her click away at the speed of light on her laptop. She has headphones on, and every once in a while lets out a giggle. Nothing wrong with this picture except it’s Friday night, she’s...
Gour Lentell of MoyaApp and Datafree recently came to Innovation City to talk to us about his amazing company, and how it changes people's lives for the better. Gour Lentell is a hardened business veteran with decades of experience in the tech industry. Lentell came back from...
“SA unemployment is at more like 10-12% if you take the informal sector into consideration,” said GG Alcock in his opening remarks at our exclusive event hosting Team Sweden’s tech delegation on Tuesday night. Author, speaker, and businessman GG Alcock delivered an eye-opening speech to the...
Innovation City is all about making and nurturing innovative and impactful connections in business. Their annual Start-up of the Year Competition had three main criteria based around seeking out the most innovative, scalable and impactful start-up in South Africa. Kena Health won this inaugural year’s...
The top 10 finalists in the Innovation City Start-up of the Year Competition were given only 5 minutes to pitch to the jury via Zoom. This is an alarmingly short amount of time to show passion, present their projections, clearly define the problem and their...
After an overwhelming number of nominations for our Start-up of the Year Competition, we wanted to share some of our criteria on how we whittled down the Top 25 to our Top 10. We invited nominees to send us a short pitch deck and/or explainer video,...