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  Innovation City is all about making and nurturing innovative and impactful connections in business. Their annual Start-up of the Year Competition had three main criteria based around seeking out the most innovative, scalable and impactful start-up in South Africa. Kena Health won this inaugural year’s...

The top 10 finalists in the Innovation City Start-up of the Year Competition were given only 5 minutes to pitch to the jury via Zoom. This is an alarmingly short amount of time to show passion, present their projections, clearly define the problem and their...

After an overwhelming number of nominations for our Start-up of the Year Competition, we wanted to share some of our criteria on how we whittled down the Top 25 to our Top 10.  We invited nominees to send us a short pitch deck and/or explainer video,...

What does it take to attract funding from top VCs? Knife Capital's Andrea Böhmert and Hlayisani Capital's Mathew Palin joined Stephan Ekbergh on stage to talk frankly about the current funding ecosystem in Africa. “Africa has been severely underfunded in the past but now there is...

Award winning African superapp platform ayoba have partnered with South Africa’s international innovation collaboration space Innovation City Cape Town. ayoba joins a community of digital start-ups, scale-ups, corporates, entrepreneurs, world changers and innovators in the heart of the Mother City: According to Startup Genome’s recently published...