In this episode, we’re excited to sit down with Idan Jaan, Co-Founder and former CEO of Fundrr, the fintech platform using smart scoring to provide quick and easy business funding to SMEs around South Africa. In September 2017 - having experienced the funding struggle firsthand - co-founders and best friends, Idan Jaan and Jarred Noche, had the ide…

In this episode, we’re humbled to sit down with Karidas Tshintsholo, CEO and Co-Founder of Khula!, the pioneering agritech startup dedicated to empowering smallholder farmers through access to markets and financing. Founded in 2016, the business now enables the trade of thousands of products from hundreds of local & international suppliers on its p…

In this episode, we’re humbled to sit down with Saul Kornik, the visionary Founder and CEO of both Kena Health and Healthforce, the technology ventures solving the gap in the country’s health infrastructure by making affordable care accessible to hundreds of thousands of patients across South Africa. Both ventures have achieved significant traction…

In this episode, we’re humbled to sit down with Badi Sudhakaran, the brilliant Co-Founder and CPO of Africa’s leading crypto exchange, VALR. Since its founding in 2018, VALR has grown to become the continent’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume, processing more than $10bn from more than 500K customers. The company has also successfully raise…

In this episode, we’re joined by Kimberley Taylor, Founder and CEO of LOOP, the trailblazing delivery management platform that’s empowering companies across the country to optimise and scale their logistics infrastructure. What started as a third-year university project in 2015, Loop has since grown to raise meaningful investment, built a team of 2…

In this episode, we’re joined by David Akinin, Founder and CEO of JABU, one of the continent’s leading B2B commerce startups, solving last-mile distribution, payments and supply chains for informal retailers in Africa. Since its founding in 2020, JABU has expanded to multiple countries, grown a team of 70 and has raised more than $18m in capital. W…

In this episode, Mathew sits down with the formidable Thandeka Xaba, co-founder and Managing Partner at Digital Africa Ventures, one of South Africa’s first black, female-founded venture capital funds. This episode dives into: Thandeka’s upbringing Navigating entrepreneurship The power of networks The realities of being a first-time fund manager He…

In this episode, Mathew sits down with Ndabenhle “Nda” Ngulube, co-founder of Pineapple, the South African insuretech fast becoming a household-name through its pioneering product and highly memorable nationwide billboards campaign. Pineapple has attracted millions of dollars in early-stage venture and grant capital from notable investors, on it’s …

In this episode, Mathew sits down with acclaimed venture capitalist, Clive Butkow - CEO and Founder of Kalon Venture Partners - to talk about his rise from modest beginnings to becoming COO of Accenture South Africa, before “retiring early” to spearhead one of the country’s most recognised VC firms. Kalon successfully raised its first fund in 2014 …

In this episode, Mathew Marsden is joined by Donald Valoyi - the self-taught developer turned tech founder - who rose from humble beginnings to pioneer one of South Africa’s leading, on-demand delivery startups, Zulzi. At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Zulzi was doing over ~2000 orders (R1m) per day and has raised 10’s of millions in capital …

In this episode, Mathew Marsden is joined by Mitchan Adams - the music producer turned developer, instrumental in co-founding (and exiting) one of South Africa's leading fintech startups, Ozow. By the time he left in 2021 - Ozow had raised a $48m Series B and was processing more than $100m/growing at 140K users per month. This episode dives into: M…