Browsing: Start-ups

A new Australian- and South African-built platform, Gather Online, hopes to help users meet other people who share their interests and passions. Led by South African-born

A technology start-up created by two youngsters, one from Tembisa, near Johannesburg, and the other from rural KwaZulu-Natal, has started making waves with a “productivity engine” after

Technology “accelerator” Sw7 has announced plans to open an “innovation hub” and co-working space in Johannesburg. The @Sw7 Workspace will be the first such space to open in the north of the city, according to its backers. @Sw7 Workspace will offer

The team behind a popular virtual reality arcade at Cape Town’s Victoria & Alfred Waterfront is now planning to bring the concept to Johannesburg. Founder Zach Joubert, an advocate and member of the Cape

Lawrence Baker, co-founder and director of Saleboat, a new South African IT start-up that develops cloud-based subscription sales management software, said the company’s founders bear an uncanny

Sliide, a start-up that serves targeted sponsored content and advertising to users’ smartphone lock screens, is expanding from its initial market of Nigeria to South Africa, promising users free data

Themba Moyo, 36, and Lisa Phendla, 33, have a plan to build the next big thing in instant messaging, and they’re going to do it by allowing consumers to chat to each other on their smartphones, even if they have run out of data or airtime. Their app, Teta