{"id":2929,"date":"2008-02-19T23:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T21:26:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-02-19T23:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T21:26:00","slug":"r-320-million-tech-fund-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/2929-r-320-million-tech-fund-started.html","title":{"rendered":"R 320 Million tech fund started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Business Week Plattner, co-founder of the German software giant SAP, is &lsquo;starting a new &#36;42.3 million pan-African venture capital fund with the help of Germany&#39;s MAN Ferrostaal, a global provider of industrial services and key player in alternative energy.&rsquo; <\/p>\n<p>It is reported that Plattner is investing &#36;36.48 million of his own money in the fund, while the remainder comes from MAN.<\/p>\n<p>Many well known names are involved in this project, including the son of the late Mozambique President Samora Machel, Malengane Machel, and Nelson Mandela&rsquo;s wife Graca Machel-Mandela.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=106411\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex SAP CEO Hasso Plattner is starting a R 320 Million pan-African venture capital fund in Cape Town to assist African technology companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}