The alleged loss of some $3.6bn Bitcoin through Africrypt investment company brings home just how risky this asset class truly is...
Richard Rattue 1 day ago
Pardon Makumbe, co-founder and managing partner of CRE Venture Capital, chats about the challenges of raising capital in Africa and shares advice on crossing the bridge to the US...
Evan-Lee Courie 18 May 2021
Zachariah George, co-founder and chief investment officer of Startupbootcamp AfriTech and Endeavor mentor, walks us through the stages of early-stage funding and how to approach it in South Africa...
Evan-Lee Courie 11 May 2021
Antonia Bothner, Endeavor South Africa Capital Markets Lead and Fundraising Lead at Endeavor Harvest Fund, uncovers the basics of capital funding and how to access it...
Evan-Lee Courie 20 Apr 2021
The circular relationship between retail sales, consumer spending and employment in SA means retailers are unlikely to be able to 'sell' themselves out of the situation in which they now find themselves...
Tasmika Ramlakan 20 Jan 2021
The Competition Commissioner during the Commission's Annual Conference (in November 2020), noted that the Commission will take a "decisive and proactive stance to ensure the balance of economic forces favour a shift to facilitating entry and a more competitive digital economy"...
Burton Phillips 1 Dec 2020
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, not all of the economic news in Africa has been negative. We continue to see promising developments...
NJ Ayuk 4 Nov 2020
The current economic conditions have significantly increased credit risk for many businesses already struggling to make ends meet...
Hanno le Roux, Meredith Harington 9 Oct 2020
At the beginning of the week, Kodak, a once giant company was trading at the lowly price of $2.62. By Wednesday it was trading at close to $60...
Damon Stapleton 5 Aug 2020
EquityMaven, a local fintech startup, plans to disrupt traditional business valuation services by offering highly detailed, investment banking-style valuations online...
Evan-Lee Courie 3 Jun 2020
Artur Schaback, one of the co-founders and COO of Paxful, shares how the company has adjusted to life under lockdown...
Evan-Lee Courie 19 May 2020
Gareth Price and Chris Bruchhausen shares how the coronavirus has had an impact on Investmint, an online platform connecting businesses in need of a loan...
Evan-Lee Courie 5 May 2020
If you think that investing is only for the rich, you're absolutely wrong...
Evan-Lee Courie 10 Feb 2020
The last 10 years have been somewhat of a rollercoaster; an era of disruption shaped by the fallout of the global financial crisis, strident technological advances influencing the way in which we live and work, numerous significant power and social shifts and influential emergent trends...
Yael Geffen 20 Jan 2020
The latest Budget comes at a difficult time with the elections around the corner, a downgrade hanging in the balance and trying to mop up after nine years of corruption and maladministration...
Danette Breitenbach 1 Mar 2019
While even the most positive SA CEOs are reining in their expectations, local CEO confidence has improved in the short and medium term...
Danette Breitenbach 25 Jan 2019
India's nascent anti-harassment movement is a fitting example of the link between scandals and bear markets...
Mark Galasiewski 5 Dec 2018
South Africa's economy is one that's vulnerable to the global economy, but it is the internal issues the country faces that will determine whether it will face a downgrade or not...
Danette Breitenbach 15 Nov 2018
