Included VC launches fellowship for working investment professionals in Africa, backed by FSD Africa and FMO
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Four-month pilot targets analysts and associates already active in African venture markets, addressing a gap between capital growth and investor capability....
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Sixty60 deploys in-house AI shopping assistant built on South Africa's largest retail rewards programme
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em 30/04/2026
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Pixie, developed by ShopriteX, uses purchase history and Xtra Savings data to personalise product recommendations and streamline repeat grocery orders....
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Ozow and Lula integrate platforms to embed SME funding within merchant portal
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em 30/04/2026
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The technological partnership utilizes transaction history to display pre-qualified capital amounts, streamlining the loan application process for South African businesses....
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Amazon and WomHub partner to train 35 South African manufacturers in e-commerce and sustainability
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The nine-month incubator integrates circular economy principles with digital marketplace tools to scale women-led businesses for global operations....
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BEE Chamber and TGPDC introduce digital platform to verify supplier credentials in South Africa
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em 28/04/2026
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Partnership connects certification data to enterprise systems to replace manual validation processes
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NetApp and Google Cloud expand storage integration to support AI workloads without data migration
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em 28/04/2026
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New unified storage service allows enterprises to run file and block workloads in the cloud without rebuilding existing environments...
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Injini and Mastercard Foundation select ten South African edtech startups for fourth fellowship cohort
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em 27/04/2026
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Six-month acceleration programme combines grant funding, pedagogical evaluation and mentorship for startups targeting educational access across the continent....
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South African startup HyperDev launches AI coding platform built around production readiness rather than prototyping
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em 27/04/2026
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HyperDev's Guided Mode targets the gap between generating code with AI and actually shipping software that holds up in production....
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Speedinvest expands into Middle East and Africa with growth-stage investment fund
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European venture firm structures new vehicle with sovereign and multilateral backing to support companies scaling beyond early stages...
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Botswana launches venture fund to finance tech startups across Southern Africa
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em 27/04/2026
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Initiative combines venture capital operators, family office capital and local innovation infrastructure to support companies from pre-seed to growth stage...
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MTN Group appoints former Deloitte Africa CEO Lwazi Bam as Group Chief Risk Officer
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em 26/04/2026
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Chartered accountant with two decades of senior leadership joins pan-African telco as it launches its Ambition 2030 strategy....
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inDrive brings card payments to South Africa through dLocal integration, expanding beyond its cash-first model
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em 23/04/2026
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Ride-hailing platform adds cashless option in a market where digital payments already account for the majority of e-commerce transactions....
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South African startups Loop and Vambo AI join Google's 10th Africa accelerator cohort
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em 22/04/2026
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The two companies , one focused on digital payments and mobility, the other on multilingual AI for African languages , were selected from nearly 2,600 applications and will receive up to $350,000 in Google Cloud credits...
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South African grocery price comparison app Grocify expands to iPhone and adds two new retailers
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The Johannesburg-built tool now tracks pricing across seven retail chains and includes a fuel cost calculator to determine whether splitting a shop across multiple stores is worth the drive...
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South African energy startup Wetility publishes municipal-level power outage data and launches public lookup tool
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em 20/04/2026
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The dataset covers grid reliability across South African municipalities, showing average outage durations that range from under two hours to more than 24 hours depending on location...
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South Africa opens fourth industrial revolution lab at Mpumalanga vocational college
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em 17/04/2026
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The facility at Gert Sibande TVET College is part of a government effort to introduce AI and digital skills training into the country's vocational education system...
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Oracle and AWS plan direct cloud-to-cloud connectivity through linked interconnect infrastructure
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em 17/04/2026
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The arrangement would let mutual customers move data and run applications across both platforms over a private, managed connection without third-party network providers...
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SEIDOR joins SAP's top-tier reseller group, a circle of 11 companies worldwide
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em 17/04/2026
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The 30-year partnership between the Barcelona-based consultancy and SAP reaches its highest commercial level, with Platinum Reseller status granted under the SAP PartnerEdge program...
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NEC XON promotes unified security platforms to replace fragmented enterprise toolsets
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em 15/04/2026
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Company highlights integration, automation, and shared data as key to improving visibility and response in security operations...
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How multiple payment options improve online travel sales
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em 15/04/2026
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Our new travel research in partnership with PayJustNow and Phocuswright, reveals how flexible payment options can double BNPL market share and boost online travel conversions....
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