There is a quiet contradiction at the heart of the internet. We move seamlessly across borders - opening accounts, sending money, applying for services, building businesses that operate in multiple markets at once. Yet the systems that are meant to verify who we are remain stubbornly...
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...
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...
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...
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...
If there was one defining feature of 2025 inside Innovation City, it wasn’t noise or hype; it was follow-through. Across fintech, AI, proptech, marketplaces, infrastructure and services, our members didn’t just talk about what they were building. They launched. They partnered. They expanded. They raised. They...
Bersella Advisors is one of the newest additions to the Innovation City community, bringing a fresh approach to financial advice for founders, scale-ups, and fast-growing companies. Led by Co-Founder & CEO Luca Bersella, the firm blends traditional financial expertise with AI-driven advisory models designed specifically...
For more than a decade, Luuk Winkens has worked in fintech, helping companies scale across African markets through better financial infrastructure. Today, as Head of Growth at NjiaPay, he leads the commercial strategy behind a platform designed to simplify and optimise online payments for South...
