88mph to fund SA start-ups
A new, privately funded venture fund and start-up accelerator, 88mph has been launched in Cape Town to invest in early-stage start-ups and help them grow rapidly. 88mph wants to fund start-ups focused on online or mobile that have the ability to grow quickly across other
Citymob: designer shopping online
When the group-buying market took off in South Africa, entrepreneurs Luke Jedeikin and his partner Mikael Hanan, decided they should look to make their fortunes elsewhere and their start-up, Citymob, started in March 2011, moved from pushing digital discount vouchers to selling carefully
Grenade lobbed into online media
A new Johannesburg-based digital content management company, Grenade, wants to help publishers manage their content and take it to the mobile Web without them breaking the bank in the process. Founded by Colin Daniels, 30, and Robin Pietersen, 29, in February, Grenade offers two content
Start-up niQqui takes on SA telcos
A new SA start-up wants to challenge the incumbent phone operators with a low-cost alternative that takes advantage of the features of modern smartphones. Niqqui, which was launched a month ago, wants to offer
Vet before you bet
Fraudcheck, a new start-up based in the Cape Town suburb of Bellville, has been established to offer individuals and businesses peace of mind when dealing with people or companies they don’t know. The site is meant to help protect them from falling victim to fraudsters by offering vetting services that can check
SA gets new prepaid payments player
Nomanini this week closed a lucrative round of funding and secured two international backers, all just 18 months after inception. The hardware and software company builds, distributes and maintains devices that allow informal retailers to sell prepaid
Daily Dish: dinner, delivered
Daily Dish founders Diane de Villiers, 54, and Jo-Pierre Lerm, 33, are no strangers to digital start-ups. The pair were behind online lead generation service JustPlay and both worked at SA’s first online bank, 20twenty. Their latest venture involves
Pashash: curating the real world
Pashash, founded by two University of Cape Town graduates, wants to provide shoppers with a place to share their favourite finds — from bargains to unusual trinkets to the latest fashions, while also letting them search the service for items they may be looking for in their area. In addition to being one of only
Pretoria schoolboys in ad-sharing start-up
Nexxr, a start-up established by four Pretoria schoolboys, is an online advertisement-sharing network designed for bloggers, online retailers and other website owners wanting to leverage each other’s audiences, allowing them to advertise on each other’s sites for less than US$3/month. Mikhaeel Aboobaker, one of the
Mygeni: social media, filtered
Social content filtering service Mygeni www.mygeni.org is a self-funded Johannesburg-based start-up created to help people reduce the digital clutter that social networks generate and help brands better connect and engage with their existing databases of customers. Mygeni founder Anthony Cohen says
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