The companies are on the hunt for 'fire-starters', whose core business demonstrates innovation and exponential growth.
IQ Business is a live system where companies can perform their daily business and transactions, view their stock and make changes.
This funding round represents Goldman Sachs' maiden investment into the mobile financial services start-up company.
A six-week accelerator programme aims to help entrepreneurs address challenges relating to skills and resources within their start-ups.
There's an increasing uptick in vendors taking responsibility for creating their own distribution chain, as well as upskilling future participants in the IT industry.
In total, the local point-of-sale payments provider has harvested investments worth R322 million from two rounds of funding.
Professor Barry Dwolatzky, director of the JCSE, will discuss SMME development at Experience Micro Focus Universe 2018 this week.
Local SMEs are slower to adopt new technologies such as AI, machine learning and big data analytics, says Microsoft.
The goal is to enable SMMEs to such an extent, that they have the relevant technical and sales skills to provide the market with solutions, says Axiz.
Difficulty in accessing early stage funding and angel investors remains a challenge for entrepreneurial development in SA, says Seed Academy.
The Department of Trade and Industry will focus on aiding companies that are actively involved in the fourth industrial revolution.
Tech entrepreneurs with innovative ideas to change the wine industry can apply to enter the Wine Industry Innovation Challenge.