Savant's investment activity is in line with trends highlighted in SAVCA's survey of the South African Venture Capital landscape. The Southern African Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SAVCA) recently...
UK-based The Guardian covers Jonga's innovative community alarm system. Jonga provides a solution in places where violent crime and theft have become endemic. Ntsako Mgiba was sleeping at his aunt’s...
Want to change the dialogue around security in South Africa? Work together. SqwidNet explores the concept. Communities can fundamentally change the face of crime. Research into communities and crime decline...
Jonga, a Cape Town start-up has come up with an ingenious way to make townships safer – by building an affordable smart alarm that sends notifications to communities on an...
SqwidNet, the licensed Sigfox IoT network operator in South Africa, hosted its second IoT Entrepreneurship Program (IoT)E pitch day on Friday 19 July 2019. The Jonga team participated as one...
South African security start-up Jonga Systems has secured a seed funding round from the Savant Venture Fund to implement its go-to-market strategy. Founded in 2016 by Ntsako Mgiba and Ntando...
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...
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...
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...
Jonga is an award winning secure-tech startup that provides affordable home monitoring security systems that harnesses the power of the community during intrusions. Jonga, aims to address a major security...