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…
SavantMarch 19, 2020
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Four Cape Town based start-ups have collectively landed over R2.7-million in seed grants from the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA), administered by Savant, a hardware tech…
SavantFebruary 29, 2020
After almost 20 years of trying to develop a mobile gym and fitness analytics machine, John van Niekerk and Newtown Fortuin are still at it…
SavantFebruary 23, 2020
Founders Factory Africa has accepted Akili Labs as one of five more African tech start-ups into its Venture Scale programme, which provides GBP30,000 (US$40,000) in…
SavantFebruary 11, 2020
Intelligent Safe Technologies won first prize at the summit’s Seda Pitch & Perfect competition as well as third prize at the ANDZA Pitching Den competition.…
SavantOctober 1, 2019
Akili Labs participated in a program, coordinated between Merck Accelerator, Make-IT in Africa and Hybr, which recently held its bootcamp in Nairobi.The program successfully closed…
SavantSeptember 12, 2019
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…
SavantAugust 26, 2019
Smartblade’s Dr Caroline Corbett is a finalist in the Tech Entrepreneur category for the 2019 the Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) awards. Find…
SavantAugust 23, 2019
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…
SavantAugust 15, 2019
