Cape Town-based medtech start-up AI Diagnostics has raised R85-million in a pre-series-A funding round to scale the deployment of an AI-powered digital stethoscope, which is designed to detect tuberculosis through lung-sound analysis at the point of care. The round was led by The Steele Foundation for Hope, with participation from the iFSP Group and the…
Johannesburg — Uganda’s TWave Ltd , who have pioneered an automated, solar-powered fish feeding system that optimizes aquaculture productivity, have been selected as one of 10 startups for the fourth year of the Qualcomm Make in Africa Mentorship Program. For this year’s edition of the one-of-a-kind equity-free African mentorship program, 10 early-stage startups were chosen…
Cinergy’s CineRay mobile solar PV system powering production for season 2 of Netflix’s One Piece A Cape Town start-up has powered an entire Netflix production base camp on the sun for six months, with no diesel generator running the main site – and at roughly the same cost as renting a conventional generator. Cinergy Mobile…
Charge chairman Joubert Roux Off-grid EV charging infrastructure company Charge (formerly Zero Carbon Charge) is planning a public investment offering in the coming months, bypassing the JSE in favour of a token-based exchange called Mesh. Joubert Roux, the company’s founder, revealed the plans in an interview with TechCentral on Wednesday and said Charge is currently…
Mazen Mroué, CEO of MTN Digital Infrastructure MTN Group’s digital infrastructure arm has joined a US$45-million funding round in ORAN Development Company (ODC), a US-based start-up building AI-native radio access network technology, alongside Nvidia, Cisco, Nokia, AT&T and Telecom Italia. The series-A round, announced on Thursday, positions ODC to develop software that would transform conventional…
Happy Pay raises $5 million (R86 million) in seed funding to scale its ad-subsidised payments network.
HyperDev’s Anton Moulder Vibe coding tools have made it trivially easy to build an app. But almost nobody is turning those apps into actual businesses — and a South African start-up thinks it knows why. HyperDev is an AI-powered software development tool that aims to address gaps in the vibe coding market — such as…
Estopini was recognised for its innovation, practical scalability and strong socio-economic impact. Pan-African technology group Liquid Intelligent Technologies has named township-focused logistics start-up Estopini as the winner of its latest Youth Tech Pitch-a-thon. It says the challenge underscores the growing impact of youth-led innovation in addressing real-world challenges across South Africa. The Pitch-a-thon, hosted virtually,…
Yazi, a South Africa based research technology startup that operates through WhatsApp, raised its first institutional funding round at a pre money valuation of 30 million rand, or about $1.6 million. The round was led by 3 Capital Ventures, an early stage venture firm created by investment manager Allan Gray. The company did not disclose…
From left: Lucas Johnson-Barker and Jurgen Stroebel (representatives from 3CV), Timothy Treagus, CEO and co-founder of Yazi, and Mzwandile Sotsaka, CTO and co-founder of Yazi. AI-native research platform Yazi has raised its first institutional funding round from early-stage venture firm 3 Capital Ventures (3CV) at a pre-money valuation of R30 million. Founded in Cape Town…
