Is the market for low-cost transportation ripe for disruption by an African bicycle manufacturer?

Announcing the 2017 African Early Stage Investor Summit: Start-Scale-Exit

Africa’s early-stage investor community comes together in November for the 4th annual African Angel Investor Summit #AAIS2017 and a bonus ‘Cape Town Innovation Tour’. ..

Funding your startup: South African investors that are delivering

For entrepreneurs wanting to find early-stage funding, this is the article for you. As there is generally a veil of secrecy surrounding funding and ..

South African Business Angel Network launches in Cape Town

South Africa’s pursuit of a more equitable and growing economy requires exponential growth in entrepreneurial mindset and endeavour. Angel investors have a critical role ..

Announcing the companies identified by the Thomson Reuters Africa Startups Challenge

Using smart data tools, teams from across Thomson Reuters have developed sophisticated assessment models to identify Africa’s up and coming ventures on VC4A.com. Here ..

Crowdsourcing a global movement, an online marketplace for African startups

The Venture Capital for Africa (VC4Africa) community is dedicated to supporting the growth of Africa’s start up ecosystem. The network building organization started in ..

Success stories from South Africa – Insights from the Seedstars World events trail

Bérénice Magistretti of Seedstars World gives some insights on the South African investment scene. You can still sign up for 8 pitching events across African cities ..

Knife Capital launches Accelerator ‘Grindstone’ to scale post-revenue startups in South Africa

South African growth equity fund manager Knife Capital is launching a later-stage business accelerator in Cape Town: ‘Grindstone’, to assist high-growth technology enabled SMEs ..

5 recommendations needed to promote early-stage VC funding in South Africa

This paper was written by Morgan Jones, from the Investment Banking Division at Merrill Lynch South Africa and Chipo Mlambo of the UCT Graduate School of Business ..

MyOws: ‘My Original Works’ is the ‘BaseCamp’ for freelancer’s copyright

The newest member of the VC4Africa Booster Programme is the South African venture MyOws. Working in the creative sector Max Guedy, co-founder of MyOws ..