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,...
What does it take to attract funding from top VCs? Knife Capital's Andrea Böhmert and Hlayisani Capital's Mathew Palin joined Stephan Ekbergh on stage to talk frankly about the current funding ecosystem in Africa. “Africa has been severely underfunded in the past but now there is...
Award winning African superapp platform ayoba have partnered with South Africa’s international innovation collaboration space Innovation City Cape Town. ayoba joins a community of digital start-ups, scale-ups, corporates, entrepreneurs, world changers and innovators in the heart of the Mother City: According to Startup Genome’s recently published...
It was definitely a different kind of event at Innovation City with author and venture capitalist Daniel Strauss in the house. He started off by taking a moment to allow us to bring awareness to ourselves by taking a few breaths and sitting in silence...
What does the future of Creativity and Entrepreneurship look like post-Covid? After enduring two years of an earth-shaking pandemic, where everything we thought we knew and held onto has been ripped from right under us, it’s time to ask the question: what comes next? Napsta Collective...
The packed Amphi audience at the ‘What the Fuss?!’ event on Thursday 24th March learned much about SaaS, as guests Theresa Emerick, Founder and Managing Director of NightsBridge, and Sam Clarke, CEO of Skynamo fielded questions from moderator Alistair Fairweather, founder of PlainSpeak. According to Fairweather,...
Frans Hiemstra wore a satisfied smile on his face at the Evolution 101 event at Innovation City, and it wasn’t just because lockdowns have finally eased up and Uber’s wheels are turning once more, no; it was because his baby had slept through the night...
Despite lockdowns, Airbnb helped pump R8 billion into the SA economy in 2020, providing 25,000 jobs. “The last two years have been such a blur. In March of 2020, we suddenly lost 80% of our business, but it turned out to be one of the...