Female-led post-seed fund that invests in breakout early-stage South African tech companies.
Location: South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Town
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| 18.12.2023 | Hacking SA’s tech gender gap | This article was contributed to TechCabal by Charles Mathews It is a Saturday morning in Cape Tloevenichmutze guardianialberto marellasaldi 24hbottle tatascarpe borsalamilanesa donkeyluckycat blundstoneprezzi blundstoneoutlet 24h-bottle die... |
| 13.12.2023 | Naspers Labs and GrindstoneX have announced their second cohort of 10 female entrepreneurs | GrindstoneX’s growth engineering program, which it runs in conjunction with Naspers Labs, has just announced its second cohort of ten female entrepreneurs. Knife Capital and Thinkroom co-founded Grindstone in 2014 with the goal of helping i... |
| 13.12.2023 | Grindstone Africa’s latest accelerator programme has selected eight startups | Grindstone Africa is a world-renowned accelerator that fosters high-growth entrepreneurship. This round of the programme selected seven South African firms and one Lesotho startup. Seven companies from South Africa and one from Lesotho are ... |
| 15.12.2022 | Looking back at SA VC activity in 2022 and what 2023 will bring TechCabal’s 2021 Year-End report Success! | According to the venture capital tracking publication Africa: The Big Deal, Africa was the only continent to record a positive growth venture capital deal value in 2022. However, Nigeria and South Africa, the continent’s two biggest VC mark... |
| 10.08.2022 | African languages AI picked for Grindstone accelerator | Billed as Africa’s first conversational AI, Botlhale AI is among the 25 high-growth start-ups that were hand-picked for a year-long programme by Grindstone, a Cape Town-based accelerator. Grindstone is a sought-after programme which takes ... |
| 10.08.2022 | African languages AI picked for Grindstone accelerator | Billed as Africa’s first conversational AI, Botlhale AI is among the 25 high-growth start-ups that were hand-picked for a year-long programme by Grindstone, a Cape Town-based accelerator. Grindstone is a sought-after programme which takes S... |
| 09.08.2022 | South African accelerator Grindstone announces 2022/23 cohorts | Cape Town-based accelerator Grindstone has announced the 25 companies who will embark on its year-long programme which assists high-growth, innovation-driven tech start-ups to become more investable, sustainable and exit-ready. The programm... |
| 06.04.2022 | Cape Town based Locstat raises investment from Grindstone Ventures | Cape Town based advanced analytics company, Locstat, has secured undisclosed amount of funding from Grindstone Ventures. Founded in 2016, Locstat enables customers to unlock previously unseen insights with their graph-based AI solution ana... |
| 06.04.2022 | Cape Town based Locstat raises investment from Grindstone Ventures | Cape Town based advanced analytics company, Locstat, has secured undisclosed amount of funding from Grindstone Ventures. Founded in 2016, Locstat enables customers to unlock previously unseen insights with their graph-based AI solution anal... |
| 04.03.2022 | Grindstone Africa looks to boost digital innovation | Business accelerator Grindstone has partnered with software giant Microsoft to launch Grindstone Africa, a start-up accelerator programme, to boost digital innovation across Africa. Grindstone, co-owned by Knife Capital and Thinkroom, runs ... |
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