Some 90% of surveyed SA SMEs have adopted digital payments, highlighting the shift to contactless transactions, says Mastercard.
Details have not been disclosed, but companies describe it as a landmark deal and one of the largest tech exits in South African history.
Company secures $69 million in funding, of which $10 million is earmarked for the South African market.
Online payments solution WigWag comes back under the Stitch umbrella, rebranding to become Stitch Express.
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The City of Cape Town ushers in its annual #YouthStartCT competition, inviting IT and business services entrepreneurs to apply.
African health-tech start-ups are invited to apply for the Home-Grown Solutions Accelerator for Pandemic Resilience.
Card acquiring business Kazang partners with TymeBank to make cash withdrawals more accessible in the remote areas of SA.
Start-up accelerators are designed to rapidly scale early-stage companies through mentorship, funding and resources.
Software as a service solution Lyra brings all forms of communication, including calls, texts, WhatsApps, meetings and other scheduling, into a single workspace.
Advanced technologies like AI and machine learning are empowering start-ups to overcome traditional obstacles.
Temosho Shaku, a graduate of mLab’s CodeTribe Academy, joined Mansalema Enterprise and has helped to build Salema, a mobile app designed to combat gender-based violence.
The payment firms offer online merchants a buy-now-pay-later platform, to allow customers to split payments over multiple months.