Tony Mallam is upnup's Managing Director and a seasoned media entrepreneur and venture capital advisor. Tony bought KFM Radio in 1996, with the popular media personality Kevin Savage, and the Ethos Private Equity team, which was the start of his journey as an entrepreneur. They ran...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
When you’re attending a Data Masterclass, you better bring your A-brain game, because if, like most of us, you think ‘data science’ is just collecting a bunch of information and then learning something cool about it, you’ve just barely scratched the surface. The unusual global pandemic...
Zachariah George is the Managing Partner at Launch Africa Ventures - Africa's leading Early-Stage VC Fund. In January 2020, he was recognized as one of the Top 4 Most Influential Persons in Technology in Africa by Les Echos (the Financial Times), and he is also...
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...