In anticipation of the upcoming Innovation City Awards Night on April 25th, we're thrilled to introduce the remarkable nominees who are set to be celebrated as trailblazers of innovation and entrepreneurship in 2024. Selection: Our Esteemed Advisory Board Behind every exceptional nominee stands a discerning Advisory Board,...
Innovation City is a Cape Town hub for tech and entrepreneurial ventures, and is proud to have played host to a transformative UX/UI Design Hackathon for the Heavy Chef (Pty) Ltd Top 5 Most Exciting Startups. Now Boarding Digital, a resident member company and award-winning...
Innovation City is proud to announce that Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has been given an Honorary Award for his dedication and efforts to make Cape Town a great place to do business. Mayor Hill-Lewis expressed his gratitude for the award in his acceptance speech, which he sent...
It was Anneli Kampfer’s searing and apocalyptic song “Eve of Destruction” that inspired Sweden’s rather unorthodox ambassador to South Africa, Håkan Juholt, to gather an eclectic group of experts to share ideas on how to end the huge crises facing South Africa – and the...
South Africa has been put on the map as a “big four” tech start-up ecosystem, with partnerships in the tech space skyrocketing in Africa over the last few years, writes Ashleigh Butterworth, content marketing specialist at Finch Technologies. Africa is fertile ground for technological advances and...
Cape Town - With doom and gloom dominating conversations on the energy crisis, representatives from local solar energy companies, climate finance platforms and the government gathered to discuss how this crisis could be used to harness South Africa’s potential to become one of the biggest...
Chris Heaton is the Founder & Managing Director of Skrmiish, a gaming app which provides unique Play-to-Earn technology that enables gamers to choose from hundreds of personalised & on-demand challenges to complete in their next match. This adds a layer of excitement and more importantly,...
We are a well-read team! Here’s our list of business books we recommend for you to read in 2023 1. The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail - Clayton Christensen The best-known work of Harvard professor and businessman Clayton Christensen. It expands on...
Shopstar is a South African e-commerce company providing solutions to help entrepreneurs with their online businesses. We talk to Shopstar CEO, Chris Edington, a self-confessed entrepreneur, who enjoys starting, growing and managing tech and software businesses. Q:What is your company about, and why are you sorely needed in...
According to McKinsey, global advances in technology give businesses, governments, and social-sector institutions more ability to increase productivity, invent and reinvent offerings, and contribute to humanity’s well-being overall. The same can be said for tech advances in Africa, with just over $4 billion raised by...