Quantum computing firm IQM says it’s raised $320 million of fresh funding to ramp up investments in technology and commercial growth. The startup, which is headquartered in Espoo, Finland, was founded in 2018 by a team of scientists with the aim of building powerful quantum computers in Europe like the machines companies such as Google…
The Technology Innovation Agency and Sedfa commit to invest in SA’s start-up and SMME ecosystem. Two entities of the departments of small business and science and technology have joined forces, to create a more integrated and supportive environment for innovators and small, micro and medium enterprises (SMMEs) across SA. The memorandum of understanding (MOU), signed…
Nick Argyros, chief operating officer, and Francois Schreuder, CEO, Phonetik AI Phonetik AI, a South African start-up building large language models that create subtitles, closed captions and narration, is helping the visually and audio impaired get more information from the video content they consume. Speaking to TechCentral at the AWS Summit in Johannesburg last week,…
TLDR The SECO Startup Fund (SSF), backed by Switzerland’s State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), has announced a new co-management structure with Seedstars and iGravity SSF is being relaunched with a refreshed strategy to support high-impact businesses in Swiss partner countries that lack access to traditional financing The fund will offer flexible, non-dilutive debt capital…
In this fourth and last article in the series on starting your own business by Steve Reid, he focuses on the customer experience, money mistakes entrepreneurs make, and the power of networking. Customers – Your Most Important Visitors A powerful quotation is attributed to Mahatma Gandhi who, in a speech in South Africa in 1890,…
In this second part of a 4-part series on a business startup, I am focusing on the place of a viable business model (horse) and being a growth-minded entrepreneur (strong jockey). How can you account for both components? Understand What The Horse Is And Why It Should Be Healthy Measuring your business by using a…
