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![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/620997-400x208.jpg) | Pineapple has closed their Series A round at R80m in total. Notable investors on the ticket are Lireas Holdings, the Asisa ESD Fund, E4E, Vunani Capital and the Old Mutual Enterprise & Supplier Development Fund.... read |
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![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/620140-400x208.jpg) | AMEEN HASSEN The Covid-19 pandemic has hit South Africa's small business sector hard. Here are some good, solid tips on how to build back better after any business setbacks...read |
| ![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/620160-400x208.jpg) | IMRAN SALIE Quickloc8, a technology startup company, is making AI a reality for the taxi industry...read |
| ![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/620960-400x208.jpg) | Ian Lessem, managing partner at HAVAÍC, believes several other African cities are quickly emerging as leading startup and investment hubs to watch...read |
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| | ![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/620223-120x120.jpg?2) | RUCERA SEETHAL At the beginning of this year I wrote a trends piece. Reviewing it now, that feels like a very long time ago. So much has happened in just a few months. But at the same time, many of those trends are still relevant... Read | ![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/621031.jpg) | DANIEL TEIXEIRA If we think about the past year in business, the subscription and as-a-Service (aaS) economy has to be at the top of the trend lists... Read |
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![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/620587.jpg) | ISSUED BY THE INNOVATOR TRUST With Youth Month concluded, it is not without adversity for South African youth who are battling the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, a waning economy and an alarming youth unemployment rate... Read |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/619797-120x120.jpg?2) | As an industry sector, franchising often does not get enough credit for its contribution of close to 14% to the country's GDP, says Franchise Association of South Africa... Read |
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![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/619723.jpg) | EVAN-LEE COURIE We find out more about Digital Africa Ventures - a venture capital fund that aims to bridge the funding and support gap for early-stage tech entrepreneurs across South Africa... Read |
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![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/619881-120x120.jpg?2) | The damage to businesses, especially small- and medium-enterprises (SMEs) - in the aftermath of the recent unrest is estimated at approximately R3bn and climbing... Read |
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![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/619982.jpg) | Saint-Gobain and AfricArena have joined forces to empower early-stage tech solutions in e-commerce and fintech in Egypt, Kenya and South Africa... Read |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/620860-120x120.jpg?2) | Rosebank Mall in Johannesburg will soon be home to the first Soko District, a new multi-brand retail concept that aims to re-tell the retail story... Read |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/620287.jpg) | Once a fringe subject, the circular economy is rapidly becoming mainstream as more businesses transition away from a linear, carbon-intensive and waste-creating economy... Read |
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![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/620428.jpg) | Convergence Partners has announced the successful first close of its third fund, the Convergence Partners Digital Infrastructure Fund (CPDIF) at $120m... Read |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/620000-120x120.jpg?3) | Enygma Ventures has invested R4m into South African natural health retailer and wholesaler Feelgood Health... Read |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/620967.jpg) | PayQin has announced a new €300,000 seed investment round that takes the company's funding up to $1 million... Read |
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![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/620605.jpg) | VIVIAN CHUENE It's undeniable that the pandemic has taken so much from us over the past year, it has also in turn required a lot from us - mentally, physically and emotionally... Read |
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![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/620118.jpg) | DENISE PERSSON It has never been more important for marketing organisations to be data-driven to deliver business results... Read |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/620001-120x120.png?2) | Wunderman Thompson has detailed the launch of its new database, Fund Femme... Read |
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![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/620635-120x120.jpg?2) | VINCENT LALI "When the taxi drivers shoot at each other, we lie on the ground next to our stock"... Read |
Social Entrepreneurship |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/620249.jpg) | The final five qualifying businesses for the next round of the Ayo Scaling Africa Series have been selected... Read |
Starting Up |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/619911.png) | SHARVED MAGANBEHARIE In Part 1, I shared insights of the why, what and how of online funnels. In Part 2, I'll share how to use funnels... Read |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/619703.jpg) | ALLON RAIZ In the last of this series of articles, Allon Raiz shares his tips to help any entrepreneur to navigate their way around pitching to investors to scale their business... Read |
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![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/620316-120x120.jpg?2) | STEVEN J SCHIFF, ANDREW GERONIMO, CLAUDIO FRONTERRE & PADDY SSENTONGO One of the obstacles if you are trying to guide policy and protect people from Covid-19 is the bewildering amount of data available every day... Read |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/619898-120x120.jpg?2) | BUSAYO AJUWON, ALICE RICHARDSON & BRETT LIDBURY Imagine it's 2030 - and a typical day in a Nigerian healthcare setting. In earlier decades, when a patient walked in, they could see piles of folders and a clutter of pens scattered all over the office... Read |
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![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/620127-120x120.jpg?2) | HOWARD FELDMAN It is possible that cooking oil prevented more looting in SA in the last week than the president, the ANC, the intelligence community, the army and the police combined, quips Howard Feldman of Synthesis... Read |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/619895-120x120.jpg?2) | LIEZL HUMAN The National Treasury is considering a request from the Department of Social Development to reintroduce the Social Relief of Distress grant... Read |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/620618-120x120.jpg?2) | The overall decline in new Covid-19 infections means that South Africa can move to Adjusted Alert Level 3 with the associated easing of restrictions on gatherings, movement and the sale of alcohol... Read |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/619862-120x120.jpg?2) | National Treasury has published the gazetted amendments to the Carbon Offset Regulations of the Carbon Tax Act... Read |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/619979.jpg) | Members of the public and organisations are requested to nominate suitably qualified people to fill four vacancies at the council of Icasa... Read |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/620372.png) | After a devastating period for South Africa, M&C Saatchi Abel's CEO, Mike Abel, shared some words on how South Africans can help rebuild... Read |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/620254-120x120.jpg) | Bitcoin will hit its previous all-time highs again by the end of the year with prices driven higher by the "carefully considered arguments" and "new measured tone" of Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey and Cathie Wood... Read |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2107/620684.jpg) | Online news portal IOL has launched a dynamic free listing and marketing platform - www.eatlocal.org.za - to connect neighbourhood food-related businesses to their local communities... Read |
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