startups

  1. Luis

    Cape Town startup builds unique solar-powered unmanned aircrafts

    Cape Town startup builds unique solar-powered unmanned aircrafts The autonomous airships built by Cape Town startup Cloudline use mounted solar panels and Helium to fly for more than 12 hours and over 400km in a single trip. They carry multiple sensors onboard, including light detection and...
  3. Hanno Labuschagne

    Sygnia launching new venture capital fund for AI startups in South Africa

    Sygnia launching new venture capital fund for AI startups in South Africa Sygnia founder and CEO Magda Wierzycka is launching a venture capital fund to invest in South African startups developing artificial intelligence (AI) tools, Business Times reports. Wierzycka is one of South Africa's...
  4. Hanno Labuschagne

    SA tech firms a major target for venture capital

    SA tech firms a major target for venture capital A new report by the Southern African Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SAVCA) revealed that ICT-focused start-ups continued to attract the lion’s share of venture capital for the third consecutive year. According to the 2025 SAVCA...
  5. I

    Best business banking for global/online business ?

    If you'd be starting a new business, what would your first pick be and also who would be your last pick xD ? I've mostly used FNB but not too fond of them; customer service bad, inbound Swift transfers take ages, and tbh their digital offerings suck. We don't really have much comparing to the...
  6. Hanno Labuschagne

    Olympian Motors making EVs with no touch screens

    Olympian Motors making EVs with no touch screens When Eren Canarslan, the co-founder and chief executive officer of Olympian Motors, removes the car cover from one of his company’s prototypes on a rainy fall day in Brooklyn, the most striking first impression is that it’s, well, cute. The...
  7. Hanno Labuschagne

    Uber funding Nigerian startup Moove with up to $100 million — Report

    Uber funding Nigerian startup Moove with up to $100 million — Report Uber Technologies Inc. is in talks to back African vehicle-financing startup Moove in a funding round of as much as $100 million (R1.93 billion), said people familiar with the matter. The US ride-hailing firm will join a...
  8. Kevin Lancaster

    Orange grows Fab Force startup initiative

    Orange grows Fab Force startup initiative French telecom powerhouse Orange on Wednesday announced that Visa, LG Electronics and four more industry veterans have become allies in its program to nurture promising US tech startups
  9. N

    Interesting Tech Startups - PTA/JHB

    Hello everyone, Do any of you know of any interesting or 'cool' tech startups in the PTA, Centurion, JHB (Braam and surrounds) areas? Although I know they're out there, things seem pretty quiet this side (compared to all the noise from Cape Town)...
  10. J

    Start-ups prepare to fight back at patent trolls

    Start-ups weary of patent trolls Start-ups begin to fight back as the patent wars intensify within the tech industry
  11. QuintonB

    Bridging the gap between tech and the homeless

    Taking tech to the homeless On the foggy streets of San Francisco, tech superstars and the homeless can be hard to tell apart in their identical hoodies. But there’s a key difference: smartphones and cash in some pockets, neither in others.
  12. IridiuM

    Work space for startups in Cape Town

    Hey guys We recently acquired a building in Claremont, Cape Town. We have setup a developer space for our business, but have a considerable amount of space available. Our end goal is to setup a co-working space for developers such as Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, California. At the moment we...
  13. G

    Finding a co-founder

    As some of you might know I've got a project I'm working on that I think will do pretty well. I started learning coding about a year ago and I'm at the point where I'm building a prototype that should be done in a couple of months(could be faster but I only get about and hour a day to code)...
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