South Africa’s Sw7, which claims to be Africa’s largest virtual business accelerator, is looking to up the ante of its…
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In just a few weeks, the world has been turned upside down. The COVID-19 pandemic, with almost 1.5 million confirmed…
Keith Jones, co-founder of virtual accelerator Sw7, takes us through the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and likely economic crash…
Accelerator programmes for African tech startups are slowly moving away from the batch-based “Silicon Valley approach” in favour of on-demand,…
The Johannesburg-based Sw7 has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to introduce what it says is Africa’s first virtual B2B…
Mutually beneficial partnerships between corporates and startups are becoming more common in Africa, even to the point of becoming a…
African banks are increasingly keen on working with fintech startups, even if we are unlikely to see many acquisitions, and…
The need for African banks to innovate at a quicker pace and access new customer segments is behind the increasing…
There is much debate amongst entrepreneurs, investors and other stakeholders as to what African startup ecosystem is “biggest” or “best”,…
It takes on average around 22 meetings and 26 months for a startup to secure a deal or partnership with…