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Startup Guide Cape Town calls for nominations

Startup Guide, a publishing company, has launched a call for entrepreneurs and those that are part of the Cape Town entrepreneurship ecosystem to nominate themselves to be featured in Startup Guide Cape Town. Nominations close on 20 August. The call was launched earlier this week. Startup Guide, which was founded in 2014 by Danish entrepreneur Sissel Hansen, calls it the “first-ever entrepreneurial...

Apply for the Grindstone entrepreneurship development programme

The Grindstone Accelerator is a structured entrepreneurship development programme that assists high-growth innovation-driven companies to become sustainable and fundable. Grindstone supplies 10 companies annually with knowledge, networks and funding readiness through growth measurement, gap analysis and deep interventions designed to build a foundation for growth, transfer skills, create relevant business networks and enable these...

Call for Nominations: 2018 MTN Women in ICT

The MTN Women in ICT – Partnership for Change Awards, now in its third year, is calling for nominations for phenomenal women in ICT before 12 August 2018. The awards aim to make a real difference by helping close gender gaps and set more women on course to lasting and exciting ICT careers. South Africa’s...

Pitching tip 2: Don’t forget your pen

Far too often, I’ve witnessed entrepreneurs make terrible mistakes when pitching to potential funders. This is my second pitching tip in a series of twelve that you – as an entrepreneur – need to implement in order to improve your business pitch to potential funders, as well as some of the pitfalls you should...

LeaderEX 2018 – Digital Technology and Innovation

One day. One venue. 250 sessions. 500 speakers. More than 5000 people. Join Africa's largest gathering of business leaders, professionals and entrepreneurs on 4 September 2018 at Sandton Convention Centre from 08h00 to 20h00. SiMODiSA will be hosting the entrepreneurship program at LeaderEX with a Digital Technology and Innovation theme.  The theme aims to address national, regional and...

VC4A Venture Showcase – Series A

VC4A is looking for 8 innovative, high-growth scale-ups to showcase at Africa Early Stage Investor Summit on Nov 11-12 in Cape Town. Are you operating in Africa, generating revenue and looking to raise your Series A round in the range of $250K and $5M? This is the opportunity you’ve been looking for! In 2017, they've showcased 20...