SA hardware technology incubator Savant has invested R9.5 million in Cape Town based medtech start-up SmartBlade. Savant Venture Fund manager Nick Allen — who was earlier this year succeeded as...
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Ventureburn recently published an interesting opinion piece on South Africa start-ups that are tackling the informal sector. Savant’s Quickloc8 and Jonga were featured among others. A valid criticism of the...
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Incitech's team recently featured at number 16 in Entrepreneur Magazine's watch list: 50 Top SA black entrepreneurs to watch. According to Entrepreneur Magazine, South Africa needs more entrepreneurs to build...
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Cape Town-based hardware incubator Savant is looking to scale up its impact after raising ZAR110 million (US$7.8 million) from the SA SME Fund, which it will use to itself launch...
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The R1.4-billion SA SME Fund has committed R110-million to Cape Town based hardware tech incubator Savant, with 50% of this amount earmarked for black African owned firms, the fund’s CEO...
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Proudly South African tech startup Jonga aims to bring peace and dignity to townships by providing a security solution that was born there. Jonga’s origin story Ntsako Mgiba, CEO of...
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Loretta Magagula (LM) gets featured in the Vintage series on the Association of Allan Gray Fellows (AG) website. Ever wished you could genetically engineer stem cells? This week’s Vintage can...
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Four startups incubated at Cape Town based hardware tech incubator Savant have secured seed grants totalling over R2.5-million from the incubator’s seed fund partner — the government’s Technology Innovation Agency...
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Quickloc8 wins most innovative business at the 2018 Western Cape Entrepreneurship Awards in South Africa. On 21 November 2018, the Department of Economic Development and Tourism presented the Western Cape Entrepreneurship,...
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For the past two years at least one company per year (in Savant's portfolio) has had the opportunity to have a group of experienced, international postgraduate business students immerse themselves...
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