The Boardroom ViewIn South African boardrooms, AI has shifted from curiosity to competitive necessity. Executives are asking not whether to adopt AI, but how…
Socialbakers raises $6m in new round of funding
Popular social analytics site, Socialbakers has just raised US$6-million in a new round of funding to aid its expansion plans according to the company’s…
Mimiboard: an African hyper-local ad network and social platform
With Mimiboards, Umuntu Media is re-imagining the humble noticeboard. You can think of a Mimiboard (pronounced me-me board) as a geographically sensitive, virtual noticeboard….
We’ve broken this startup thing
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how our ideals and idols are totally broken and that we needed to re-evaluate how we…
Can Silicon Valley be repeated in Africa? Ventureburn asks IBM’s Martin Kelly
IBM’s Venture Capital Group is a really interesting cog in the startup machine. It’s not a fund and yet, through it, IBM has managed…
