News
FNB Private Clients partners with AngelHub to develop South African entrepreneurs

4 July 2012

Understanding the challenges facing entrepreneurs, FNB Private Clients is proud to announce its partnership with AngelHub, in support of South African entrepreneurship and innovation ... Read More

Will the real African startups please stand up?

27 June 2012 | By: Keet Van Zyl

With so much focus on advancing the entrepreneurial ecosystems around African startup hubs at the moment, more and more Africans are starting their own businesses by choice as opposed to necessity ... Read More

A Slice Of The Action

22 March 2012 | By: Marc Hasenfuss | Source: Financial Mail

Knife Capital will pitch at growth equity opportunities in the broader technology space ... Read More

PoweredbyVC is rebranding to Knife Capital

22 March 2012

Angel funding - High risk, high returns - Wings for new ventures

21 July 2011 | Source: Financial Mail

Entrepreneurship is a key ingredient in economic growth, and funding is a key ingredient in entrepreneurship, but unfortunately there’s a funding gap for early stage start-ups in SA ... Read More

Visa Acquires Fundamo, Signs New Agreement With Monitise

9 June 2011 | Source: money.msn.com | Copyright 2011 Business Wire

Visa Inc. V, a global leader in payments, today announced that it is acquiring Fundamo, a leading platform provider of mobile financial services for mobile network operators and financial institutions in developing economies ... Read More

PoweredbyVC Living Labs Global Award

19 May 2011 | Source: The Living Labs Global Mobility Report

The cities of Barcelona, Cape Town, Eindhoven, Lagos, San Francisco, Sant Cugat, Stockholm and Taipei announce the winners of the Living Labs Global Award 2011 ... Read More

CSense Exit

6 May 2011 | By: Garreth Bloor, memeburn Staff reporter

Graceful exits are often unreported, but one South African venture capital company has done it smoothly with seemingly positive effects for the local emerging markets environment in which it operates ... Read More

The Evolution of the Missing Middle Landscape

3 June 2010

Financing Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets like those in Africa has historically been branded as a social mission, largely served by social capital such as grants from foundations. However, investors have begun to take notice of a new trend ... Read More

HBD outsources its portfolio

17 May 2010 | By: Paul Vecchiatto, ITWeb Cape Town correspondent | Source: ITWeb

Here Be Dragons (HBD) has outsourced the management of investments to a new company owned by its portfolio managers ... Read More