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...
‘Possibility Babies.’ That’s what Kieno Kammies, co-founder of Innovation City calls making business connections at their inaugural ‘Tinder for Business’ speed dating event. With over 70 hopeful tech startups meeting top Venture Capital firms and Corporates in the country, this unique and fun event saw...
Tech-driven innovation has changed the world and the way we live in it. Innovation tends to take different forms in different contexts – while in developed countries it tends to be focused on enhancing efficiency and productivity (moving from traditional taxis to Uber; stopping the...
When Michel Weiss decided to move to South Africa from Germany to push startups, people thought he was slightly crazy. However, after falling in love with Cape Town, he does not regret it! Here are his three reasons why: Timing For succeeding within a market or industry,...
We recently had the pleasure of hosting a panel discussion on sustainable fashion, which included reps from local SA fashion brand Cape Union Mart, international fashion giant H&M, and a global sustainable fashion consultant and founder of Sustainable Fashion Strategy. The panel was moderated expertly...
Meet Tasneem Karodia, the co-founder/COO of Mzansi Meat Co. who has a love for flying aeroplanes, rock climbing and changing the world by evolving our food systems in Africa. Tasneem has played an instrumental role in creating structure throughout the organisation and getting the company...
“Do you use Snapper or ZapScan?” I’m told people often mix these up. Something that you can’t mix up though, is the very tangible success that scan-to-pay online payment apps like Zapper and SnapScan have had in South Africa. Dewald Müller is Head of Customer Success...