MIT Solve is looking for creative solutions to four new Global Challenges: Circular Economy, Community-Driven Innovation, Early Childhood Development, and Healthy Cities by tech innovators looking for help to scale. This year, over $1.5 million in funding is available for selected solutions—including $600,000 grant funding for solutions using AI to address any of these Challenges. Selected solutions...
AlphaCode Incubate has opened its applications for the 2nd official cohort. There are 8 places up for disruptive financial services businesses that will have the kind of impact OUTsurance and Discovery have had on the industry. Key information on the programme: Criteria Must be at least 51% black owned Operating in the fintech or financial services...
Rand Merchant Investment Holdings (RMI) has a proud track record of backing extraordinary financial services entrepreneurs. Its portfolio companies comprise some of the most recognisable brands in South Africa and the UK, including Discovery, OUTsurance, and Hastings, all of which have disrupted and transformed the financial services landscape. Launched by Rand Merchant Investments in 2015, AlphaCode identifies, partners & grows next-generation financial services entrepreneurs...
I’M IN Accelerator seeks to launch black-owned, high growth startups into the South African technology sector by providing opportunities to technically apt entrepreneurs with limited access to resources. I’M IN partners with entrepreneurs who have commercially viable application technologies by facilitating access to seed funding through early-stage equity, in conjunction with business development support and...
Is your startup looking to run pilots or proof of concepts with the likes of Old Mutual, RCS, BNP Paribas Personal Finance, Nedbank and PwC? Startupbootcamp (SBC) AfriTech will on 2 and 3 May run a corporate-focused hackathon in Johannesburg. SBC AfriTech said in a statement last week that the hackathon will be hosted by Old Mutual. The...
Technology has become a key driver of efficiency and therefore the success of multinational businesses, so it is interesting that SMMEs are not embracing this trend. There are a number of issues which prevent startups from embracing technology, chief among these is digital illiteracy. When compared to global counterparts, research shows that South African business owners...
