By Jedd Harris, Chief Strategy Officer at Sourcefin Despite access to finance consistently ranking among the most significant barriers to business growth, FinMark Trust estimates that only 20% to 30% of MSMEs in Sub-Saharan Africa manage
Leading South African SME investment and business development firm, Edge Growth, has officially launched an innovative catalytic debt fund to support established, technology-enabled scale-ups. Set up more than three years ago, the fund has now
South African-founded AI startup Verascient has raised US$1.2 million (R19.5M) in its first funding round to help companies build faster and more capable teams with AI. Verascient turns knowledge scattered across documents, systems and individuals
Access to finance remains one of the most significant barriers facing South Africa's small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). While many entrepreneurs need additional capital to grow, securing funding can be challenging, particularly for businesses operating
Lane Mogashoa, Business Development Support -Enterprise Development, Absa Business BankingWhen Chantelle de Bruyn’s grandfather had to give up coffee for health reasons, she wondered whether she could create something that would still give him the
Kerryn Campion, COO at Aions Ventures South Africa is producing no shortage of promising startups. The real challenge is helping more of them become investable businesses. Many of them occupy an uncomfortable middle ground. They have
Taking a business from R5 million in revenue to the R100 million threshold is one of the most demanding transitions an entrepreneur can make. While many South African scale-ups hit early growth milestones, a significant
African tech startups don't always view the transition from regional funding to institutional Series A and Series B rounds as a pure product validation exercise. More often than not, the transition is an architectural challenge.
The image of the entrepreneur working alone from a kitchen table has long been romanticised for its ‘flexibility’. But for a growing number of South African women, flexibility isn’t being built in isolation any longer.
Keshal Sookha, Managing Executive for Commercial Strategy at Telkom Business South Africa has around 3 million micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, which collectively employ 13.4 million people. Many still lack affordable, secure and easy-to-manage digital tools.
