South Africa’s wealthy Oppenheimer family is investing in the country’s technology sector. E Oppenheimer & Son has become an investor in a venture capital fund run by Cape Town’s 4Di Capital. The Oppenheimer investment – the value is not being disclosed – will
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A local technology start-up wants to take the hassle and confusion out of filing tax returns using the SA Revenue Service’s eFiling platform. Marc Sevitz and Evan Robinson, both 28, started TaxTim last year. The two pitched the idea to Google’s Umbono
For any business with an online presence, having an easily accessible and feature-rich contact page is vital. A new SA start-up, Formsly, has been launched to tackle this niche market
FireID, the promising Cape Town-based mobile security start-up, has found a white knight. Alan Knott-Craig Jr’s investment company World of Avatar has come to the firm’s rescue
The news that promising local start-up FireID has retrenched all its staff and is facing closure has been met with despondency by analyst firm Frost & Sullivan, which says the Cape Town-based company had a winning
FireID, a promising Cape Town-based start-up funded by billionaire Johann Rupert’s Reinet, is no more. The company retrenched its entire staff complement on Wednesday and will shut up shop
Wi-Fi hotspot specialist Skyrove has secured a multimillion-rand investment from 4Di Capital. The deal follows an investment by Cybersmart, an…
Many innovation hubs have been proposed around the world, ostensibly modelling themselves on Silicon Valley. There have been successes, but…
Silicon Cape is a new initiative aimed at fostering technology innovation in the Western Cape. But will it fly? Cape Town already represents the technology hub of the Southern African region. And as one of SA’s most successful technology entrepreneurs, Yola.com founder Vinny Lingham, says