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,...
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...
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...